Friday, February 11, 2011
02/11/2011
I seem to have hit a plateau. I can get down to 11, I can sometimes get to 10 but most of the time I am at 11. For some reason I can't seem to get past 11. I feel like if I could just cut back one more and get to 10 for a few days then I could get over this hump and be further on the way to quitting but I am bogged down at 11. I need to look at my lists and see which smoke I can cut out, which 1 smoke I could really do without for the day. Where can I cut back one cigarette in my life. Is it the second one in the morning, (not the first one for sure, not yet anyway). Maybe it is the one in the early afternoon, or maybe the late evening one. I need to get some kind of schedule going and cut out just one more, get to 10 again and then to 8 and then to stop. I sometimes feel like I am climbing in molasses and just stuck, and then sometimes I feel like I am climbing on shale and sliding back two steps for every step forward. I need to find firm ground where I can walk forward and upward. Firm ground where I can make a stand and strengthen my resolve. My mantra tomorrow will be "firm ground".
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It's like that every time I try to lose weight too. That plateau. Only way I can ever break through is to change something... one less bite here, one more broccoli there. Plateaus serve a purpose though. They give us a rest, a break, a moment from the climb or descent to rest, contemplate. No matter how I look at it, I'm still on the plateau, which means I succeeded to that point. I'm gonna smile at that, and then be ready to move on as I can.
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