Feelin Focused…
For the first time in a long long time…
And it feels good…
I am finding that as long as I keep my patience in check…I am good…
Which is no easy feat, really…I am the most impatient person sometimes…
Sometimes, when I am recommitted to my weight loss, I feel as long as I have been good. Real good, then I should see an immediate result…Like in my head, I feel I should put on a pair of pants and they should fall to my ankles…
Ummm, Dawn, it doesnt work that way…
It takes a while for your body to catch up to the mind set…THIS…This is my biggest battle ALWAYS when I am in my groove…
So I am finishing up my first week back and I am pretty happy with my results.
I met a friend for dinner on Friday out…And I ordered a nice GRILLED Alaskan Halibut…It was really good and low calorie..I felt full and NOT deprived…Ended Friday with 1350 calories…Not bad at all for eating out.
I am getting there…My mind seems to understand this time that I just HAVE to do this…I have too…
Its no longer an option of whether I will write in my journal today…
Whether or not I will exercise…
Whether or not I will eat healthier choices…
I just HAVE to do it. No discussion. No arguments.
I think I am finally getting myself sorted out…I hope so…
I can be fat…Or I can be thinner…I will never be THIN…But I can be thinner and healthier…
I can sit here month after month. Struggling. Whinning. Wondering why I am NOT losing weight…
Or I can face the facts and the hard truth and realize that I will never lose the weight until I committ to mySELF to do so…
Guess what?
That means that YES, I have to deny myself certain things.
YES, I will have to make some sacrafices…
Yes, for the rest of my life I will have to make these permanent changes.
That means basically I need to grow up. Own my weight. And take personal responsibility for it. I got myself here. And only I can get myself back…Period…
I can do it or not do it. The choice is mine…
I have ben reading a lot here lately about diet pills…Diet shots…Surgery…Etc…I would like to throw my two cents out there as well…
I will, and have, confessed to TWICE in my life considering the Gastric Bypass…
Its a very inticing option…
A quick surgery and suddenly I would be dropping five pounds a week…Like that!!! Sweet!!! Sign me up!!!
Or not…
Both times, I have stopped short of having it…I have many many friends and aquaintences that have had it…It was their choice and for their own reasons, they chose it…
Sadly, so far, very very few of them have been successful, long term…
LONG TERM is the key phrase…
I guess my thoughts are this…
However you choose to lose your weight is of course, YOUR choice…Whatever diet you choose, whatever exercise you do, whatever tools and resources you choose, ALL YOUR CHOICES…
Correct…
However, here is the thing…
No matter what diet…No matter what tools…The end result MUST BE a life time of changed behaviours…
PERMANENT CHANGES.
There is no quick fix. There is no magic pill.
I get soooo many emails from people…Even when I havent been on here for a while asking me “How did you do it??”
And I get the feeling they are looking for me to give them some magic code…There is none…
Any one who takes one millisecond to read my story, which is right here in the pages of my profile…My blogs…KNOWS I have struggled…They also know how I do it, and how I fail…And how I keep on trying…
My story is much more than the pictures on my profile…
To loose weight you must do this:
Consume fewer calories then you burn. Period.
As awesome as I am, I didnt invent that…LOL…Its just a basic mathmatical equation…
That is the basis of ALL diets…Atkins, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, etc….
And guess what…To be a long term success, to be a HEALTHIER success you will have to EXERCISE.
No, you dont need to spend 2 hours a day in a gym. But you will need to get moving…
It is possible to lose weight simply by changing your eating. I know this. I have done this. But…To be truly healthy, you are gonna have to get some exercise. Regular exercise in some form…
I know. It sucks. But its a fact…
I am amazed at the number of people who do these fast result programs…Surgery…Pills…Shots…But dont change their behaviour…
If you dont fix the problem…Then all these things are just band aids…A quick, TEMPORARY fix…
Can these things work? ABSOLUTELY…
Some people use these tools for a jump start. I get that…As mentioned, I too am impatient…I would LOVE to start seeing five to 10 pound weight loss per week.For me, it would help me…I think…
But, as with anything in life…
Things that come to us easy, are often not appreciated…And that is the point of this long and rambling blog
You can do this the easy way…
You can do this the hard way…
The choice, indeed, is yours…
And whose to say surgery or pills ARE teh easy way? We all have different oppinions on this of course…
But for me, the hard way is just going to make a larger, longer lasting, impact on my life…When I work hard for something…VERY hard, I appreciate it more…
Does that mean that I will always be a success too? No. As noted, I have failed more times than I can count…
But I would rather fail on my terms, then the terms dictated to me by some surgeon…Or some diet pill commercial…Or whatever…
And with doing the least amount of damage to my body and my organs…
I am in this game to become HEALTHY…
Not to be a number on a scale…
Not to be a certain size…
Not to fit within the confines of some doctors or “Proffessional’s” Weight chart that says what I SHOULD weigh…
I am doing this for me. So that I can feel good about EVERYTHING about me…Whether I end up at 180 for the rest of my life or 140…
I want to WANT to make better food choices…I want to WANT to be outside exercising in any form…
I want those choices to just be a natural reflex for me…So that no matter what weight I am at, I am living the most healthy life I can live.
I want that to be what my life IS, every day…Not just for a period of time…
I love this, I am sure i’m not the only one who can relate to this. While I have had friends do the surgery and they have managed to keep the weight off–still, it was hard work. However, I dont see that as something as I want to do. If your gonna have to watch what you eat, and work out–might as well do it from the start. But, I’m hardheaded too lol.
Thank you-some of these thoughts are the same ones that have been rattling around in my head. I want to be healthier–if I wanna jog or go for a run–I want to be able too..not let my weight stop me from doing what I wanna do.
You can do it girl!!
I love your blog this morning. So inspiring and uplifting. Same thoughts of mine as well. You are absolutely right about people not changing their habits and not appreciating it. I know for me changing my eating habits and incorporating working out is a huge key to my success. Keep up the hard work.