Kevin and I started Kathy Smith Project You, Type 2 workout program a couple of weeks ago.  In fact, today we will be doing Day 2 of Week 3 and we have not missed a day.  Needless to say, I am very proud of us.  This is the longest I have stuck consistently to a program since I first joined Beachbody.  Also, when I left on vacation last month, I bought a food journal and began recording everything I eat daily.  Happy to say, since vacation down over 10 pounds and am at 28.1 unhealthy pounds of fat released total.   We have been cooking at home most nights and shopping only  a few days in advance to keep everything fresh.

This morning I was off to visit Team Women NCI Chapter and was looking for something to wear and grabbed a pair of black pants and put them on.  It took me a few seconds of wondering why I never had worn them before.  Because until today they would not zip.  WOO HOO.  And I had bought two pairs just alike so I have two new pairs of pants.  I was so excited I could not wait to start telling everyone.  I went and found Kevin in the kitchen making our Shakeology’s (great husband) and showed him.  Next was The Healthy Breakfast Club Call which started at 7 am and I am sure I announced it there at least twice if not three times.

And off the meeting with my Shakeology in hand.  I felt so good walking in the door I even wore red lipstick.  I felt great.  Now, what is important about this is I am 15% of the way toward achieving my weight goal, so it is a long way off still.  As I mentioned to someone else, these were definitely  not skinny pants I was getting back into.  I have a great deal of weight left to lose.  What is important was I felt successful about the progress I am making and focused on that instead of how far I have to go.

Are you giving your self the recognition and praise you deserve for all of the great decisions you make daily?  Success matters.  We talked on The Healthy Breakfast Club the other day about putting a yellow smiley face sticky on our day planner for every good choice we made.  Drank 8 ounces of water = sticker, passed on the cookies=sticker, parked farther out in the parking lot= sticker.  You get the picture!  You are taking care of your self in many ways you are not acknowledging.  Start noticing and patting your self on the back.   Starting now!

I invite you to join us at the kick off on Facebook of The Weight Room, an interactive weekly sharing about creating health in our lives!  This will be September 14th at noon pacific and all you need to join us is your computer and a Facebook profile.   And I would be honored if you joined our Fan Page!

Healthfully Yours,

Judi

Ever had an ah-ha moment and knew this was the one which would “click” and making losing all that unhealthy weight easy-breezy?  Me too; hundreds and maybe thousands of them.  I know I finally reached the point where I gave up believing in myself that anything would stick. In fact, that is the place I have been for a while.  Thinking it almost seemed easier to just forget ever getting healthy and let the “chips” (no pun intended) fall where they may.  Almost there, but not quite.  I have a great husband, wonderful friends, businesses I love, places I want to see, and things I want to do.  The time has finally arrived to decide if staying alive is more important than giving up.

When you make this choice so many times and then let yourself down, you stop trusting in making yet one more  decision or commitment.  We become so afraid of letting ourselves down again that we are afraid to begin.

I came home last night from an intensive two day business workshop which was completely focused on creating tools and strategies to grow our business.  That is certainly why I went - to learn how to create more profit out of the 16 hours per day I regularly work.  Everyone there seemed to have a clear picture of where their business was going and the next step they needed to take.  I sat there feeling frustrated and confused and not knowing how to incorporate what I was learning into my businesses and how to focus in on the next step for me.  I was feeling like I did not fit in and wondering what was wrong with me.

Then I had the ah-ha, well maybe more of a duh than an ah-ha.  I realized I was focusing on the wrong area of my life completely.  Being successful in business has always come easy to me and I create successful businesses without a problem.  So it was comfortable and easy to focus all my attention in that area.

In fact, the only area in my life where I have felt like a complete failure is in losing weight and KEEPING it off.  I had lost all confidence in ever being successful in releasing the weight and not gaining it back, because this was an area in which I have never succeeded long term.  Being successful feels good - failing feels bad.  And it was much easier for me to concentrate on the areas in my life I felt good.

But it has long since past the point where my weight is about looking hot or wearing great outfits.  At this point, it is about making a choice to improve the quality of my life and to keep on living period.

I made the decision at this “business workshop” to put business in second place in life and make my health number one.  It even scared me to say it, because even when I said it, I was not sure I would even last the first day.  We walked out of the event last night with our next three most important steps to take in our lives and by when we would achieve them.  Here are mine:

I would get up this morning and before going to the computer and starting work I would do the following three things:

1.  Weigh and record my weight
2.  Exercise
3.  Eat a healthy breakfast.

Sounds pretty simple doesn’t it?  It was not and I did it anyway.  Being a perfectionist, it is easy to get sidetracked.  I answered the phone right before I was getting on the treadmill, thinking it was my husband and instead it was a business call.  The call lasted about 30 minutes or more and I kept thinking; I am supposed to be doing my three things before I do business and now I have already blown it.  Could not even get through the first day.  And then I said STOP IT!!!  Life is in session and you have to do the best you can do.  You are done with that call and now go do what you said you would do.  And I did and it felt good to make that choice.

Part of my plan is to record everything I eat and it took me awhile to find the program I use.  Part of my brain was saying this is taking too much time, you’ll remember just go check your email and then record it later.  I am so thankful I did not listen to that part of my brain.

As I was writing this, I had to keep fighting the urge to say “to be continued” and go work for a while.  And I didn’t.  So it is 9:53 on the first day of this plan and I have kept my commitment to myself.  Realizing if I were to drop dead of a heart attack, it would not matter how successful or unsuccessful my businesses are is an interesting concept.

I just am glad that as of this moment, I have followed my plan and made my health important to me today.

Going forward on the journey,

Judi