Pictures

Day 30.  I started blogging about my tribulations of re-shaping not only my body, but also my life, a month ago.  The exercise portion of this venture is chugging along, maybe not a breakneck speed, but then again I'm not on the couch!   I stopped eating fast food  at the beginning of the year.  Two days ago my mom and I ate lunch at Steak n Shake and the cheeseburger  didn't taste all that great (the strawberry shake went down just fine!)  Though not of the Catholic faith, I'm participating in Lent by giving up alcohol.
As I'm revealing these mini accomplishments I'm trying to understand how, as a creature of imbedded habits, I've gotten this far.  The answer is imagery.  Different pictures pop when I think about doing or not doing something specific.  When the time arrives to exercise and motivation is low I see my mom falling off the curb.  When I see the big yellow arches and think of chicken nuggets I imagine the big pink goo pictured on a FB post.  When I open my beverage fridge I see a calendar counting down to Easter!
As a sidenote I researched the pink goo story and posted what I found in ' Pages' under "The Rest of the Story".