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I haven’t been here in quite some time and I know it! I haven’t made ANY Progress in the weight loss area. My job requires 8 hours of basically sitting on my tush, so once I leave I’m even more tired because I haven’t been physical which makes me want to come home and be even less physical! It’s a never ending cycle which needs to end!

Last night my husband and son decided to challenge each other to see who could lose more. So it got me remotivated. I’m going to use my breaks at work to walk the 3 flights of stairs at work and i’m going to start parking farther from work and walk. It’s a start!

A  POEM  ABOUT  OUR  GIRLFRIENDS

Someone will always be prettier.
Some will always be smarter.
Some of their houses will be bigger.
Some will drive a better car, their children will do better in school
and their husband will fix more things around the house.
So let it go and love you and your circumstances.
Think about it, the prettiest woman in the world can have hell in her heart
And the most highly favored woman on your job may be unable to have children
And the richest woman you know has the car, the house, the clothes ~

but might be lonely. . .

and the word says, ‘If I have not Love, I am nothing.’
So, again, love you.
Love who you are.
Look in the mirror in the morning and smile and say,
‘I am too blessed to be stressed and too anointed, to be disappointed!’
‘Winners make things happen~ Losers let things happen.’

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Morning everyone. I’ve just started a new challenge in the buddy-up forum for the month of October. It’s all about you!

It’s about each of us doing things for ourselves. Be it little or small taking care of ourselves add up in the long run.

Everyone feel free to participate. To do so just keep a list of things in October tht you’ve done for yourself. Be sure to go to the forum and keep your list updated.

My outlook on this is if our list grows then we are finding it easier to squeeze in time for ourselves, which means we are loving ourselves more, which means we’ll find getting fit a whole lot easier to accomplish!

Good luck and have fun with it!

I haven’t posted in ages and I’m not sure why I am at this moment.

It’s really sad when the one person holding you back from attaining your goals is you!

I’ve been heavy now since 1993. I have the knowledge and the tools and the desire to change this. I have health issues that Demand that I do this, yet time and time again I fail.

I make excuses even though I’m contradicting those in the back of my mind. I skip the gym using excuses such as, I need to get home and make the kids dinner. ( they are almost 16 and 17 they can do this themselves). I say oh I can’t get to the gym because I need to get home because the kids have church.( they drive themselves). I seem to be using my kids against me!

I’ve realized that this is true in my whole life not just this area. I’ve been offered better jobs and things of this nature but I don’t take them because I find reasons not to. Normally my kids. I don’t want to miss out on their lives by being gone all the time.

I have somehow taken myself out of the game. The question is why am I so afraid to live. By living I mean living with my whole self. Not just part. Why am I afaid of actually accomplishing what I’ve set out to accomplish? What is there to be afraid of? Most people set goals reach them and they are then proud and set new goals. I set goals, go into self-sabatoge mode then wonder why I can’t do it! GO FIGURE!!!

I guess it’s time to set some small goals and learn to allow myself the joy of accomplishing them.

“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?” - Robert Louis Stevenson

I haven’t posted in a while and I haven’t been putting forth the effort needed to lose weight. Grant you I’m still not drinking soda’s. Life’s been full of stress and I just allowed myself to fall into it instead of standing up and doing something about it or in this case stepping back and allowing the one’s who should deal with this to handle it.

Anyways I’m using my Wii and loving it and i’m back to the gym as of this morning. Enjoyed it!

Going to start logging all my food intake again and get back on track!

Oh let me tell you, if you don’t own a Wii, it’s probably an investment you might want to save up and go for it!

Cons- Expensive, Games are expensive, You need a bit of room to play, You have to buy a second controler and a Num chuk, you want to invest in a charger.

Pros- 5 games come with the Wii! These games alone lead to hours and hours of fun. Great for getting your kids up and moving, Fantastic for getting us up and moving! Oh and now you can buy actual exercise tapes for the Wii!

Over all I am absolutely feeling like I got my ass kicked sore today! My body aches and its a good ache. 

I decided that since I didn’t make it to the gym I still needed to get in some form of exercise. So I took my sons Walker Coon hound for a walk. Annie (the dog) has the power of a horse! She’s so strong that instead of a walk you are being pulled around. I’ve decided to call it resistance walking. She’s a beautiful dog and has such spirit. I’d love to have even a quarter of her energy! Amazing dog I must say. We have two other dogs Buster the 8-year-old Mutt! He doesn’t use a leash because he likes being around us! Then we have Wheezie, she’s a basset hound and Oh is she a mess. She’s 5 years old and well if you let her out of a fenced area her nose hits the ground and she’s gone. Problem is normally her nose leads her to the nearest road! So we only take her out on a leash. For a Basset though she’s spunky. She can walk our entire 10 acres and still keep going!

So I’m guessing as long as I’m doing something it’s better than nothing. I’ll be hitting the gym after work today.

I am keeping each one of you in my prayers and I hope you are each finding your way…..

P ass The Butter …. Please .    
          This is interesting . .. . .

Margarine  was originally manufactured to fatten  turkeys.  When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put  all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their  heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get  their money back.  It was a white substance with no food appeal  so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter.  How do you like it?   They have come out  with some clever new flavorings    

 DO  YOU KNOW.. The   difference between margarine and butter?  

Read on to the end…gets very interesting!    

Both  have the same amount of calories.

Butter  is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8  grams  compared   to 5 grams.

Eating margarine can increase   heart disease in women by 53%  over  eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent  Harvard  Medical Study.  

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in  other foods.

Butter  has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few    
Only  because  they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of  other foods.

Butter  has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .

And  now, for Margarine..

Very  high in Trans fatty acids .

Triple  risk of coronary heart disease .
Increases  total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and  lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases  the risk of cancers up to five fold.

L owers  quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And  here’s the most disturbing fact…. HERE IS THE PART THAT  IS  VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine  is but O NE MOLECULE away  from being PLASTIC..    

This  fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life  and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is  added,  cha nging the molecular structure of the  substance).    

You  can try this yourself:

Purchase  a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded  area.  Within a couple of days you will note a couple of   things:

 *  no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it  (that  should tell you something)

 *  it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional  value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny  microorganisms  will not find a home to grow.  Why?   Because it is nearly plastic .  Would you melt your Tupperware and  spread that  on your toast?  

Share  This With Your Friends…..(If you want to ‘butter them   up’)!

Chinese Proverb:
‘When someone shares  something of value with you and you benefit from it,  you have a  moral obligation to share it with  others’.  

Oh you know it’s those little things that remind us we can do this. When I started this journey the only thought in my mind was losing weight. As I’ve continued on I’ve found that habits are what need changing.

On the 23rd of Febuary I wrote a post about giving up pepsi, well I can happily say that since that day I’ve been totally caffine free. Not even Tea! I’ve gone water all the way getting 80 oz a day.

I know it’s a small thing, but it’s a habit that was adding to my weight and it’s a habit that is now broken. It’s a step toward becoming who I want to be.

We are all here for one main thing dropping weight but we need to worry more about those little things that are causing our weight issues.

I haven’t been so focused on weight loss because I know that in order to lose the weight I have to get all these little things in order. Stopping caffine, Watching what I eat, exercise……. If we try and do it all at once then we get over whelmed then we give up. So maybe we need to stop worrying so much about how much we weigh and worry about habits that helped get us where we are now…..

I’ve been focusing on the caffine issue. That is now an accomplishment. Now it’s time to start focusing on Fewer Calories. Calories that are dead for instance iceburg lettuce. There is no nutritional value to it. So why eat it? Start adding other salads such as Spinach which I enjoy and actually has nutritional value.

Stop eating so many Creamy Sauces, let go of Potatoes, White bread.

Start focusing on Eating Veggies and Fruits and lots of High Fiber foods. I buy my kids shredded wheat cereal. I got to looking at it and OMG it’s amazing how much Dietary Fiber is in there on top of being whole grain and contains lots of iron and other great vitamins. So I’m going to definitely be adding that to my daily routine.

I also found that when I eat things the first time I don’t much like it but once i’ve decided to give it a real try it’s not near as bad as i’ve made it out to be. It’s a mental thing we do to ourselves. Our body craves all the bad stuff we’ve been eating for years and so it wants to rebel against the good.

Just like with water, 3 months ago I’d drink water in the morning and I’d get sick to my stomach. So when I started drinking water I’d skip it in the mornings and drink it the rest of the day and now my body has come to love it and I drink water at all times now. We have to recondition our minds as well as our bodies.

Good Luck to you all and I hope you start breaking those little habits and start creating better habits that benefit you in the long run!

One thing i’ve always found hard to get along with out is my pepsi. There was a time when literally it’s the only thing I drank. Morning noon night. It was like a love affair I couldn’t live without them.

However, I think I’m going to have to divorce pepsi because I’ve fallen in love with someone new. Crystal lite has become my new love. I love how you can pack a few in your purse and just pour it into a bottle of water shake and its ready!! The flavor isn’t like Koolaid so it makes me very happy.

Soda is nothing but dead calories and yukky sugar. It’s bad for us all. It helps our bellys to expand to pre-child birth sizes and helps our asses to look like coffee tables.

I stopped drinking pepsi and started really exercising and now i’m finally seeing the weight move off a bit. Sure it’s not alot but i’m finally seeing it.

Good bye pepsi you made me so happy for a long time, but my love for you is gone. I’ve moved on and I think Crystal lite and I will be much happier together. You Gave me all you had but our relationship was destructive and unhealthy. I deserve better.