When you want something bad enough
to go out and fight for it,
work day and night for it,
give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it;
If only the desire of it makes your aim strong enough
never to tire of it;

If life seems all empty and useless without it,
And all that you dream and you scheme is about it;
If gladly you'll sweat for it, fret for it, plan for it,
Pray with all your strength for it;
If you'll simply go after the thing that you want
with all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity;
faith, hope, and confidence, stern pertinacity;

If neither poverty nor cold nor famish nor gaunt
Nor sickness or pain of body or brain
can turn you away
From the aim that you want;
If dogged and grim,
you besiege and beset it,
you'll get it!

-unknown

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Hit my low point?

I read once that every one who is extremely overweight has to hit bottom and reach a turning point in order to have the strength to change, I must have hit that point a few days ago. I was just about to go to bed and I realized I could not remain the way I was. It wasn't fair to my kids, it wasn't fair to my husband, and it wasn't fair to me.

So for the last 4 days I have finally been practicing what I preach and eating healthy. I found a wonderful calorie tracker on livestrong.com called my plate. I feel so special every time I put in what I ate and know it was the right thing. I have also been using the eliptical I made husband by me 2 years ago that I swore I needed.

Now I do cardio for 30 min at least 5 days a week. That first day was probably the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. Using music or TV as a distraction has alway been my MO, but now I do it in silence. Everyday I feel like I win a war, the whole time I tell my self I am beautiful and strong and in control. By staying positive and thinking of what I can eat and what I will be able to do has helped me not have any temptation (other that wanting an extra tuna sandwich for lunch yesterday, which I resisted).

It's only been 3 1/2 days, but I have no doubt I will succeed. To keep me honest, I will post my progress on here with advice for anyone going through the same thing.

starting weight: 252 (ouch!)
goal weight: 160
mini goal: get under 220 by my anniversary ((August 10) (and before anyone tells me thats not healthy, you always lose the first weight fast, I lost 5 lbs the first day) ))

I weigh in monday mornings so feel free to check in and cheer me on.


If anyone is open to some friendly competition, bring it on, we can even have prizes!


Let me end with a quote I found in tip-a-day guide to healthy living by Melanie Douglass-

"Make a promise to yourself--right now--that you will appreciate your body as the precious gift from God it was meant to be. Satan is jealous of your physical body because he doesn't have one--and he'll continually try to seduce you to abuse, neglect, and despise yours. Don't let him!"




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4 comments:

  1. chanelJuly 2, 2011 at 9:25 PM

    Competition eh? What do you have in mind?

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  2. BridgetJuly 2, 2011 at 10:22 PM

    It could be one of those where we all put $10 in and whoever loses the most in a certain amount of time gets it all. Or we could have a race around Christmas and see who wins, since the goal is to be healthy and in shape.

    Or we could earn bragging rights for every pound we lose. We could have a queen of the competition every week.

    It would be better the more people we have.

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  3. chanelJuly 4, 2011 at 4:03 PM

    I would be willing to do anything where I don't have to put money in. The bragging rights thing sounds great for example.

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  4. BridgetJuly 4, 2011 at 6:01 PM

    that gives me 7 pt over you, so ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Beat that!

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