End of Year Resolution

I only have one goal for this week.  It is to NOT get on the scale.  I have wanted so many times to check and see the damage but I know that because the celebrating is not quite done it will have a negative effect.  I haven't logged too much this last week but I have been keeping an eye on things. (although, mental math is always a few grades short of passing) I know myself well enough to know that I will have a "who cares, the damage is done" attitude if I step on the scale now.  I am determined to keep, at least, my head in the game!

Time's not tickin'

On my anniversary the other day I was surprised that I was down even more from then.  I have been wondering why.  I haven't been making a real effort to lose any more weight.  Then I figured that I had just found a way to cut small amounts of calories and that must have added up.  To lose 3 pounds in a year you would need to cut back 28 calories a day.  That is nothing.

One of the biggest killers of motivation is thinking that this must happen quickly.  What if you just erased a time frame from your mind?  If you cut just 100 calories a day then next year at this time you could be 10 pounds lighter and hardly notice a difference in your eating.  Who cares if your journey takes 5 years to complete.  The person five years older would say it was worth it!

Weight loss tips From Santa?

This year my kids have been hooked on Santa Claus is Coming to Town - the old stop animation one. I didn't notice as a kid that it is freakin' hilar'. You have got to watch it sometime. There is one famous scene where Santa is helping a mean wizard to change his ways. I completely related. He says "put one foot in front of the other" and that is how a healthy weight is achieved as well. Forget how long it might take. Forget all the details period and just put one foot in front of the other and soon you'll be fittin' through the door;) You might have a stumble here and there but if at some point you get through the door then it was all worth it - who cares how long it took!

Here is a silly remake but you get the gist.   Watch it and get inspired!

Nutcracker SWEET

Last night I went to the Nutcracker with my daughter and my sisters.  It was a lot of fun but a conversation beforehand has kept going through my mind.  We were discussing weight and my sister says she "has been doing well but she hasn't had many parties... yet".

Something I have learned and have been preaching and teaching is the fact that the mind effects the body.  Here my sister has been doing "good" but has there been weight loss?  (sorry sis)  In her mind she has discounted the good she has done.  It is only a small sub-conscience thing but has large conscience and physical results. 

So many times these small belief systems create our whole experience.  That alone is why diets don't work.  It is because you have just put a whole lot of "don'ts" in your life and really a few "don'ts" are not going to kill you.  The "don'ts" are really not the problem.  It is amazing that a handful of chocolate chips can go from magic pills to poison in the blink of an eye once you are on a diet.  You would think a few chips of chocolate have 20 pounds of fat for the amount of guilt you have about that moment of "weakness".  When you find a happy medium with chocolate chips then you are there!  You might not have taken the 30 pounds off but that is just time.     

Great Idea Jennie...before and after pics

My baby was 7 months when we took this trip to Disneyland.  We were building a house and I had purposely packed my scale away.  

This was just weeks from stepping on the scale for the first time in months.  I had been getting up early and running at least four times a week and was devastated to see 17??? on the scale.  I always looked at the scale and took off 5 pounds for good measure and then blamed that darn "whatever I ate" within the previous 24 hours for a few pounds.  However,  the 160's had always been my highest.  I know I was one seven something but am not sure if I remember the number before or after my convenient math - proof the mind blocks terrifying events.    

  Apparently I need to step in front of the camera more.  This is one year after weight loss (last year)

This is Disneyland 2010.  It is hard to believe this is 40 pounds different from the last trip.  I do not think I was hideous before but I look at the before pictures and say "you were making food more important than it needed to be and you didn't even realize you were doing it! "

2 Down Forever to Go!

Today is the two year anniversary of losing the weight.  I am not sure I will ever stop remembering important dates in my weight loss journey.  They are almost sacred to me.  Here is what I wrote two years ago weighing in at 135.4 down from my denied 175ish two years before.  

Today I am officially saying I MADE IT!!! It has been such a learning experience about myself and I will actually miss the journey. I never in my wildest dreams thought I could be here. I wish all of you on the journey good luck and say enjoy the experience. For the rest of your life you will look back at this time with fondness. You were taking control and winning!

Now the only problem is, how do I add 500 calories back into my days without just eating a candy bar everyday? MMmmm candy....actually the craving isn't there anymore the way it used to be. YES! That is the biggest triumph of all!

PS

Anyone on a plateau, check the batteries in your exercise machine. It can be helpful. hehehe

I am seriously humbled to be here.  I would wish this on anybody.  You can do it.  Believe in yourself - not me, not Weight Watchers - not HCG.  These things are great tools but they are not the fix.  You will never permanently lose the weight playing catch-up all the time.  You need to be leading your pack and whatever keeps you from doing that needs a good looking at and either changing or getting rid of.  I am needing more friends in this club and you are invited.

Lose weight like a guy

I thought this article was great. 

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/healthieryou/why-guys-lose-weight-faster-women-and-how-steal-their-secrets

Today I weighed 132.8 (a pound away from my lowest).  I credit two things. 

1. My attitude.  I am just in a good place knowing "I can beat this".  I trust myself and my body.
2. I think my body likes this new weight and is working with me to keep it here.

I am thinking about doing my workshop in early February.  If you are interested send me an email with the number in your party so I can get a count.  (my profile has my email)  I will have some pre homework to do.  2011 could be your year!!