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Ingrained thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs.
When one decides to improve themselves or certain areas of their lives they inevitably encounter self defeating thoughts……
During the course of my weight loss journey I have read many articles, studied several charts, and basically soaked up as much information as possible to help me along the way. Its like the college student before the final exam….seeing just how much knowledge you can cram in before the big test. Where there really is no test here…its more a matter of reaching my ultimate goal. A goal that has changed a million times already, I might add. :)
I have tried to lose weight and improve my physical self on more than one occasion. This time is different though. This time im armed for battle…Battle with MYSELF! Yes, that’s correct! I am my own worst enemy when it comes to weight loss. I have self doubt, weakness, laziness, and negativity. My enemy is STRONG!!! But this time I am stronger! I not only have to deal with learning and improving my food and exercise but also with my thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs. You know the things I have had since birth. Things that may not always be correct. None the less they are who I am and they have got me where I am today. So if I said I was going to reach my goal and still be the same person I was when I started, that would be a lie. When you decide to change the way you eat and the amount of time you spend being active you no doubt change your thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs. It all goes hand in hand. Sometimes that is scary to think about. That maybe the way I have been living and the way Ive been thinking are wrong…and getting me into trouble. Of course we have all gotten into trouble in some way or another but when you tell yourself that this kind of trouble is in your foundation and could make or break you…whew that’s BIG!! HUGE even. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not over-thinking this….which I do tend to do a lot….:) What I’m doing is examining every aspect of myself and determining if it is something I need to improve upon or stop altogether. Some habits are of course bad and must be stopped. But others aren’t always as obvious to categorize. Sure I need to change my food, and also my activities, but also the way I think of those things and feel about those things.
I know I could ellaborate a lot more on this and may at some point in the future continue it but for right now the basics of what im thinking are out there. And inevitably must be addressed in this journey.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—which is: Try to please everybody.
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10 Reasons To Never Give Up
1. As long as you are alive, anything is possible. The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead. As long as you are alive (and healthy and free) you have the choice to keep trying until you finally succeed.2. Be realistic. The chance of mastering something the first time you do it is almost non-existent. Everything takes time to learn and you will make mistakes. Learn from them.
3. You are strong. You are stronger than you think. One little setback is not enough to stop you from achieving your goals. Neither are 10 or 100 or 1000 setbacks.
4. Prove yourself. You don’t want to be known as someone that is weak and gives up. Go out there and prove yourself to the world and to yourself. You CAN and WILL achieve what you set out to do. The only time you fail is when you give up.
5. Believe in your dreams. Don’t sell yourself short. In life there are going to be many people who will try to bring you down and tell you what you want to achieve is not possible.
6. Your family and friends. Let the people you love and who mean the world to you be your inspiration to persist and persevere. Maybe you need to try a different angle, study more or practice more but don’t give up!
7. There are people worse-off. Right now there are many people who are in a worse situation and environment than you are. Are you thinking about giving up running 5 miles a week? Think about the people who are unable to even walk and how much they would give to be able to run 5 miles every day.
8. You deserve to be happy. Don’t ever let anybody tell you otherwise. You deserve to be happy and you deserve to have success. Keep that mindset and never give up until you reach your destination!
9. Inspire others. Be an inspiration to others by refusing to give up. Who knows what someone else can achieve because you never gave up and in turn inspired them not to give up.
10. You are so close. Often when you feel like you want to give up you are so close to making a huge breakthrough. You are just a heartbeat away from success.
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The top picture is the day I got married August 7, 2009. The bottom picture is October 19, 2011.
Well Ive been on this journey to lose weight for a long time now…practically my whole life. I think Ive finally had that light bulb moment. You know where you actually GET IT!! Over the last few months I have finally started to make some real progress. And Im super excited about it. As of October 18th my weight loss for the month of October sat at 8 pounds. I dont know how much more Ive lost because my husband has taken my scales hostage. He said something about me weighing myself too much. :) I would never do that would I??? Actually I was seriously becoming obsessed with it. I have a doctors appoinment in two days so I will get an official monthly total then. Maybe its a good thing to only weigh once a month but when you have struggled with your weight your whole life you are so fearful that you will gain it back. I always thought maybe if I weighed myself every day I could stop that gainage while it was just beginning. (Is gainage a word?) Geesh. But after the pep talks with my cousin, Jeffrey, (who is the bomb by the way) Ive decided that I might not want to replace one bad habit with another one. It is true that any gain or maintain on the scales was the deciding factor to my day. And needless to say if I didnt lose I was not in a great mood. But now, with no scales in sight I get up go to the gym, shower and go to work in a much better mood. :D
Jeffrey was my motivation to get back into the fitness swing. He has inspired me so much this time around. And you know sometimes thats what it takes to keep on your path…positive,inspring people to push you when you need it. I so advise you to surround yourself with positive people. You know we all get busy and dont always have time to call and give each other pep talks but some days when you are feeling down and you really need a boost, you know just which friends to call to get it. I mean, that says a lot about someone….you know….knowing that they will always have encouraging words and not judgements. I have friends and many good ones….some always want to make everything about themselves and some like my husband always encourage but thats because he is my husband and his happiness rides on my mood too! haha. But there needs to be someone that isnt there every day who you know can kick your butt when they need to but also remind you of what you need to be doing to get where you want to go. And when you have those positive types of people around you…its bound to rub off. :D
LIFE IS GOOD. BRING IT ON!!!!
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What was I thinking???
Never a dull moment nowadays with my gym adventures. I started going to the gym before work every day and it has been one crazy thing after another. I always carry my blackberry and my ipod with me when I work out. While im on the elliptical its not a big deal but when I am finished with that and I go to do the weight machines I have a hard time keeping up with both of them so this morning I decided to put them down inside my sports bra. Yes this was not a well thought out idea. So I put my ipod on the left side and my blackberry one the right side. Now I do wear a t-shirt over my sports bra so it actually wasnt something that was visual to anyone else in there, but it freed up my hands to do what I needed to do. I proceeded to do the leg press, 3 other hand weight machines that I have no idea what they are called and then I went to do free weights. I did the free weights for about 5 minutes. Well when I go to get in the shower I take my phone and ipod out…you probably guessed it…they were COVERED in SWEAT! GROSS. But not only that….my blackberry had a line of yiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiy typed on it like I was trying to find a contact or add a new one. So I tried to hit END or delete to get rid of that. I finally get it back to the main screen and think all is well….WRONG. I get a call from my son, Matthew. I see the number come up and even hear the music…I press the green talk button and NOTHING. I tried to press any key and no response…just kept ringing. OH GREAT! So I proceed to take the battery out and put it back so it will reset itself. It opened up to the yiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi thing going on again. HMM What is up with that. So fast forward about 4 hours. I left my phone lying there with my battery removed to let it dry out. I go to check it just now and it appears to work fine except every so often the yiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi will come up again and I have to delete it off and hit end to close it. Let me be the first to say that Blackberrys are great for withstanding water and moisture ordinarily but apparently something in my bra hit yiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi either that or there are sensors under them that got moisture. Either way I have a yiyiyiyiyiyiyi phone today. Like I said, never a dull moment. On a side note….im loving the way I feel now after working out first thing in the morning! I wish I wouldve started this routine much much sooner. :D
You might be a TOOL if you stand around the gym for like half an hour just talking while your buddy lifts weights the whole time.
*And yes those are my feet on the leg press machine. I was trying to sneak the pic.
Ok so I have been going to the gym after work two to three times a week for the last 4 months and suddenly this week I decided to start going every day first thing in the morning. I have learned many new things while trying the new routine. Allow me to share them with you now. :)
1. If you turn the shower dial all the way around you will actually get to take a hot shower. Yes, it took me two days to figure this out. Cold showers are supposed to be great for you right???
2. You should do the weight machines BEFORE you do 30 minutes on the ellipitical. Not only because these new studies say you should work your muscles first but because there is nothing worse than leaving highly visible butt sweat all over the padded weight machine seats. LOVELY!
3. Must have shower shoes or flip flops….they do not scrub those showers nearly as much as I would.
4. Going to the gym without ANY makeup and your bedhead hairdo is OK. IT REALLY IS.
5. The fact that Im not a morning person and HATE getting up early to work out, is totally overridden by the euphoric wonderful SUPERgirl feeling I get after a workout. :)
6. I can shower, get dressed and do my hair/makeup in less than 30 minutes at the gym while it takes me over an hour at home? HMM what is up with that???
7. Now that I go to the gym early, my husband who usually had to be dragged out of bed because he snoozed his phone the maximum number of times and it no longer alarmed, now gets up all on his own at the right time. :) GO FIGURE
8. Im in a lot better mood and definitely notice that my co-workers arent as cheerful as I thought they were. Come on people…SMILE :)
I couldnt think of 10. I didnt start out to do a top 10 or anything but heck I got 8 I figured why not just make it an even 10 but I sat and thought for like 10 minutes for some other tidbits of info and couldnt do it. Anyway…Im so glad I started working out in the mornings. ITS AWESOME!
WIW! :) Rockin it
So my typical weigh in day was Tuesday but I weighed in today and it made me smile. Im down 2 pounds! :) I have been going plateau at it for 2 weeks now. Last night I was sitting at home with my husband and we were talking. I told him that Im getting discouraged because I was not drinking Mtn Dew anymore and I had avoided the Butterscotch Cookies at work and had been working my butt off at the gym and at home on my ellipitical and still no scale movement!!! He smiled and told me not to give up. Which of course I wouldnt do….but I was definitely 100% frustrated. So I got up this morning and stepped on the scale…and it showed a 2 lb loss. I was beaming!!!!!!!!!!!! Its about time!
What a way to start the day.
ZUMBA Saturday
I absolutely love Saturdays for the sole reason that I have Zumba class in the morning. :) It just makes my whole day better. Heres the situation:
Wake up at 7:30ish…I feel yucko big time..I dont want to go to the gym. I want to stay home and be lazy and depressed. But wait…I need to go to the gym..Zumba makes me feel better absolutely AMAZING.
Go get dressed for class. Fill up my water bottle. Take my meds. Drive to the gym. Oh my im always the biggest girl in class. :( Someday I will look like that. Jennifer (the instructor) is amazing. So motivating and she has a body to die for. I can do this…I CAN DO THIS!
Lots of sweating and kick butt dancing/stepping/grooving followed by the EUPHORIC feeling that I LOVE!!! Im sooo glad I came to class. Wish I could do this everyday…well not every day but you know what i mean. :)
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So I havent posted anything on here in a while. I have wanted to but just never had anything to say really. Ever have those days??? You just go thru the motions and there isnt really anything to talk about. I have things I could talk about but I guess Im too lazy to type it up. I joined the gym with some co-workers. We got a group discount and I just couldnt pass up the chance. So I went to my first class on March 3rd after work. It was ZUMBA. I have taken those classes a few times and knew what to expect. It is without a doubt my favorite type of class. You move the entire time and dont realize you are working out for an hour. MAJOR calorie burn. :) I was a little sore from that later in the evening but it was well worth it. Ive still been walking about 1.5 to 2 miles at work during the day. Then on Saturday the 5th I went back for a different ZUMBA class. It kicked my butt. The jumping at the end kinda hurt my knee but again it was well worth it. I even did 15 mins. on my elliptical Saturday after ZUMBA. Monday I went to the gym for ZUMBA Gold, which is a beginner/senior zumba class. Well guess what? It was canceled….so we debated on taking the Mini Boot Camp class….and then we decided yes we could do it!!! We were idiots dreaming because by the end of the first 5 minutes I was seriously ready to kill myself walk out! It was the most agonizing workout Ive had in a long time. Im too overweight to be taking that class. There were jumping jacks, crunches, pushups, running, weights, leap frogs, and all kinds of crazy stuff. This ol’ girl was not cut out for that stuff. Not to mention my blubber bouncing all over the place. At least I can laugh about it. Well here it is Thursday…I can finally move my arms again! And so after 2 days of recovery im going back for ZUMBA tonight. Hopefully it will work the rest of my soreness out. I will let you know later. Just gotta keep going…..
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Another VICTORY!
So today I had my check up at the doctor’s office. My blood pressure has dropped from 186/94 to 111/84 and Ive lost 6 pounds! YAY! :) Im so excited. She also said my cholesterol was a little high so she suggested I stop eating/drinking: white bread, biscuits, cornbread, whole milk, whole fat cheeses, butter, and egg yolks. Thats right folks…tell that to a SOUTHERN girl. Its awful. I know I can do it but its going to be tough. I was telling my husband and his reply was “well what ya gonna eat?” Its the funniest thing. I know I can slip in the healthy stuff in their meals sometimes but the milk and eggs may be tough. I will update you in a week about the food change over. :D Keep going…just keep going.
NSV!!! I FINALLY got 10 petals on my fitbit!!! My previous record was 8. I used my elliptical for 30 mins. tonight! WOO HOO. Talk about one happy girl tonight!
Ahh Spring in the air and a spring in my step.
Today feels like a new day. Like a start to something. Ive been on the road to what I call fitness for a month or two now but today feels like its different. I made it up to 20 minutes on my elliptical last night after a month of only 15 minutes. :) That is such an accomplishment! Then today I walked on morning break (15 mins) with some coworkers. I was exhausted at the end but I felt so good too. Its like ive finally started feeling the pain but then rush of happiness afterwards. I could definitely get used to this. I know in my mind that the working out and exercising will all be worth it in the end but I hadnt yet reached that point to where it made me get off my butt and actually do something. Im so far out of shape its not even funny but maybe im working on that and it will change soon. Today is a good day…I feel like supergirl. Euphoric…beaming….excited…..All rolled into one. :) Life is good and working for something makes it even better. Get up and move!!! It will be worth it!
I do plan on posting health related issues on here. Just gotta make it a priority. On a mission now to lose about 120+/- lbs. Going Baby steps at it. :) Gotta kick it in high gear baby! Summer time’s a coming. No bikini’s for me but would like to wear a pair of shorts and not feel like a whale.
Ahh Valentine’s Day. The wonderful day of chocolates and flowers. My husband and I decided that we would not celebrate this day with gifts…it was just a day that we would send gushy texts and look at each other with flirty eyes. :) But in a way its kinda depressing hearing everyone else talk about what their sweethearts are getting them. I guess my 11 year old son put it in the best perspective this morning on the way to school. Matthew: I forgot the candy I was going to give Felicity. Me: I have a sucker in my purse you can give to her. Matthew: Nah its ok. She gave me a box of candy last week to give to her today. I told her I didnt have any money cause I didnt want to break my 50 dollar bill so she bought a box of candy and said I could give it to her but not to tell anybody she bought it. WOW! So our society has already got our 11 year old girls so worried about what others think that they have to sink to this level. I always thought my son was going to be a total Tool…but guess he has found his boss in this one. :) Gotta love a girl that knows how to play the game though.
EDIT: The candy heart pic was supposed to stand for Mendy but you can only fit 4 letters per line…I now see it could stand for Monday. Hehe Funny.
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