Starting a new Body-for-LIFE challenge!

Happy Monday gang! Woke up at 9:40 which is right around my target time - looks like my sleep-cycle shift is gonna stick! Anyway, I spent some time this morning evaluating my Body-for-LIFE program. I decided to start a new 12-week challenge today. I had completed 4 weeks on the other challenge, but with the illness and topsy-turvy sleep-cycle dominating everything I was struggling and mostly just going through the motions. I dropped 11 lbs the first 2 weeks then got half of that back the next 2 weeks! Ouch!

I would usually just stay the course with the current challenge, but I just couldn't get excited about the idea of scrambling the next 8 weeks to try to make up for the disappointing first 4 weeks. Besides, I'm physically doing much better now after being back on the allergy shots for awhile and my sleep-cycle is now back to a more workable schedule. And just as important is that I'm more empowered emotionally and mentally to get back to making great progress on a consistent basis. I spent a lot of time last night doing the mental and emotional "homework" necessary to come to terms with the issues that were interfering with my progress.

Heck, much of that was simply validating that the main culprit was an unusually rough spell with the illness. With the topsy-turvy sleep-cycle and the sickness being elevated it was hard to believe I could make any significant progress. And when you start doubting if you can make progress, then the food plan slips too...

Anyway, I'm thrilled to get rolling on Day 1 of my new 2014 Body-for-LIFE challenge and I'm confident I'm going to have a great run of progress, just like I did in 2013. Thanks guys for always cheering me on...