Its all in how you look at it.

I began writing this week's edition thinking how there were choice and behavior changes that still seemed sooo hard to make.  But as I was writing, it came to me that I've spent so much time trying to change yesterday's behavior that I forgot to acknowledge just how much the choices and my behaviors have changed over the last 5 years, and definitely over the last 20 and 30 years. 

So instead of beating myself up because I didn't get another vegetable in at dinner, I realize that I'm getting my fruit in at breakfast and I'm automatically thinking of what I can add to sauces, stews and even scrambled eggs to get more vegetables in every day.  And on Sunday, when I ate the whole bag of Easter candy, or at least most of it, instead of thinking how I blew it (which I was thinking), I acknowledge the fact that I didn't go out and buy another bag of candy on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday; which 5 years ago I would have done.

So, yes, sometimes those healthier choices seem to be just as hard to make as ever, but in reality, the harder choices are becoming more like isolated incidents than everyday occurrences.  Yay! for all of us who are still choosing to take the journey, even if the path wanders back and forth, up and down, and sometimes crosses back on itself.  Keep going!  I think I now understand that the "hard" gets easier as we go.