Minute 89

We started sleep training our baby.

The first night was the hardest.

89 minutes in I was over it. I was desperately trying to convince my husband that we should stop. That our 5 minute check ins were just not working. That he wasn’t getting it.

My husband offered some gentle push back and encouragement and we stayed in the game.

No joke you guys. Minute 90 he fell asleep. He self soothed. He got the hang of it.

Had we given up we would have lost those 89 minutes of effort (or so the sleep training book says).

I wanted to give up so badly right when we were so close.

But I didn’t.

And so now he sleeps so beautifully.

This my baby boo babes is the key to achieving our goals.

I just saw this in my weightloss journey.

I plateaued the shit out of my weight loss this month.

My old conditioning wanted me to give up at minute 89.

My new conditioning offered some gentle push back and encouragement.

I didn’t know it was minute 89 but it was.

Minute 90 was when I woke up the next day and I literally lost 3.5 pounds “overnight”.

I really wanted to give up. To throw in the towel. I would have lost so much of the hard work I had achieved.

But I didn’t.

And so the ‘never-ending’ plateau ended.

I lost weight. I am much closer to my goal.

What if you were at minute 89 in regards to your big goal? What if?