Honesty and Accountability

The truth is, I really like food. A lot. Not only do I like food, but I like to eat the stuff that isn't necessarily the healthiest for me. Sometimes, while I wish I could just eat whatever I wanted and not have it affect me, that isn't reality. So, I have to find some motivation to keep me making the right choices. This week, I found one of those motivators.

My daughter, who is two, had an appointment on Monday -- a routine check up for a two year old. This was also the appointment when they compare her height and weight to 'the chart', to see if her growth is right on track with all the other toddlers her age. According to 'the chart', she falls into the 12th percentile for her height and the 52nd percentile for her weight. The 50th percentile is average, which means our little cutie is probably always going to be little (and cute, but we don't need a chart to tell us that ;p)

While we knew that she was probably going to be on the shorter side when she was all grown up, this news hit me in a way that I wasn't expecting. The choices I make for her right now are going to become what she knows when its time for her to make the right choices. Which means if she eats unhealthily now, then she will have a harder time learning to eat healthy when she has to make the choices on her own. This is something that I have always struggled with, and it is not the thing that I want to pass on to my child. This is motivation to make the right choices not only for my health and well-being, but also for hers.

So, what is your biggest motivator to make the right choices? Think about it every time you want to binge on junk food because you are stressed, or when you aren't feeling like doing that workout.

My motivation. What's yours?