I vividly imagined becoming "unstuck" this time. I was confident I would keep my commitment to exercise and eating healthy. I was sure this would become my reality.

Unfortunately, my determination and resolve seem to have evaporated.

The say will power is "the ability to do what you really want to do when part of you really doesn't want to do it. It's remembering your bigger goals, in the face of your immediate desires."

I have a birthday one week from today and I am very excited at the prospect to be alive to celebrate! Despite the setbacks I've allowed so far this year, my gift to myself is to prioritize temptation with reward and boost the odds of my success to reach my goals. I need to become better prepared for those times that temptation appears. I need to anticipate my own excuses.

I will put healthy snacks in the house and make sure I have my extra running shoes in my car with an extra set of shorts and top so I don't have the excuse I can't walk.

I don't intend to beat myself up if I have a setback however I do intend that a setback no longer gives me permission to let one little misjudgement mean its okay to go ahead and add to it. It will no longer become, "oh well, I'll start again next week."

If all goes well, next week on my birthday I will be celebrating one week of staying true to my resolve. That will be an awesome gift to myself.