I Am Sixteen, Going on Seventeen...

Rolf, The Sound of Music: 
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Baby, it's time to think
Better beware, be canny and careful
Baby, you're on the brink

Today marks day 23 on the Advocare 24 Day Challenge. With just a few moments of weakness, I pulled it off. It definitely put me on a very good path of clean eating and loving myself again. 

So why am I singing a song from Sound of Music? Well, everyone that knows me knows I always have a musical score buzzing around in my head. But the lines listed above can be pretty powerful when you take them out of context (manipulate their meaning to best support your topic, etc). 

Now that the challenge is over, it would be so easy to slip into old habits. I won't have Bonnie texting me every morning with her support, I won't have my alarm reminding me to do this or do that. I will be on my own, to make my own food choices. 

I'm also singing this song because of this:

Oh yeah, you're reading that right. In 23 days, I've lost 16.5 inches off my body. That's the length of a newborn baby (except mine. She was a tall one!). That one ruler plus another third. It's insane to think I had 16.5 more inches of mass a month ago.

Yes, I do need to be canny and careful. I am on the brink. But with numbers like this, it is hard to justify my old habits.



P.S. Detailed account of my Advocare experience to follow shortly.