Habits are a lot like friendships...

...they can be good or bad. You can make them or break them. You can benefit from them or be destroyed by them. Several years ago---one of my very good friends told me that I needed to break some bad habits...or I would break!

Thanks to the honesty and support of my friend and the EAS/Body for Life program I've started to form new and healthy relationships with good habits...and good people!
In the past I had aways been an "all or nothing" kind of person. (Can you say compulsive?) When the latest friend let me down or the latest diet failed ...I'd go on a frantic search for new and improved ones. This vicious cycle...continued to spin me like the Tasmanian Devil through out the decade of my 40's. By the time I hit the Big 5-0...I had grown fat and tired and... lonely.

As with any "true" friendship....I didn't slide into my new, healthy lifestyle over night. I started with tiny baby steps. When set backs occurred....I dusted myself off, picked myself up and got back onto the path. When I didn't have the strength to do that on my own...I found that new friends found during my BFL journey were there to support me.

I now visit my good habits and my new friends daily. With practice and time they have become as comfortable as an old pair of shoes. I never start the day without my exercises--nor do I go a day without planning meals and following thru on my plans. I also work to return the support of my new BFL friends.

The thought for the day...Good Habits are like Good friendships...when you work on them there's no room for the bad ones. Body for Life works when we work the Body for Life Program.