Shann

Hi buddies! Hope the New Year is bringing success to the weight loss journey! Well as for me….it’s AWESOME! I have lost 3 lbs so far this week and my weigh in isn’t til Sunday, so hope to get another lb of flub off! I haven’t been able to do any cardio since Wednesday because I hurt my knee running last Sunday. So it’s been all upper body weight training since. I have done weights for years and they bring significant change fast for me, so that’s a huge plus now that my knee is out of commission.

As for my nutrition. It’s been so good and this is the kicker for me. Last night I wanted something to eat so bad but literally had to have a conversation in my head about it. Sure the food would bring me temporary pleasure but I would go backwards so fast and all my work would be wasted. Have done this a thousand times, all my “I’ll start tomorrow” are no more. I will no longer sabatoge my hard work, I will no longer put my body on the backburner..notice how we all do this, we buy face creams, wrinkle creams, make-up, etc… you name it, all to make our neck and upward look good. Forget it, I want to look down and like what I see instead of avoiding it and hiding it with baggy clothes. This has gone on way to long, 3 years now of avoiding my image in the bathroom mirror when I get out of the shower. How sad is that? THIS is my year for change! By fall I will look in that bathroom mirror with a smile and know I have accomplished what I started!

Oh and my biggest trial has been not eating out, eat at home people, make your meals…because it is so easy to say “Oh I’ll order something that’s healthy” but the temptation is sometimes too great! Just my thoughts anyway!

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

Happy New Year buddies! Well it’s another New Year for the good ol’ resolutions…My top one is of course to lose this weight and my next resolution is to NOT have a resolution pertaining to weight for 2009…kind of go hand in hand hey?! There have been lots of components with the STALL on my weight loss, first is I’m lazy…yep I said it…I AM LAZY when it comes to bettering (is that a word, don’t care I’ll use it) my body. I’ll do the work for a couple or even a few weeks and then slowly just drop off the nutrition and workout aspect and become a slug. Feel sorry for myself and medicate with food and then I get the JOLT to better myself yet again and round I go…what a freakin’ merry go round….And it’s because I AM LAZY….Don’t get me wrong. I don’t sit on the couch and eat bon bons all day, I keep plenty busy with my kids, errands, household tasks etc, BUT I do use these as an excuse for not getting my butt in gear! 

I watched the new Biggest Loser tonight and they took the contestants to a morgue…It was a huge wake-up call for them and I was crying just watching it…one gentleman said he was the only one to blame and all he could think of while he was there was his wife and child…how they would be torn apart if he were to be laying there from his unhealthy habits…Kind of hits home doesn’t it? I AM in charge of me, no one else is, I can’t keep trying to foot the blame onto something else for my habits. I just hope I can accomplish this (I would rather go through the pain of child birth than try to lose weight and trust me, my son was 9 lbs 4 oz and over 21 hours of hard labour lol !)…maybe it’s because I know it can’t be done overnight, it isn’t a 6 month “diet”, but a whole life style change. I know how hard it’s going to be to detox myself off certain foods, and the cravings are going to be so strong and so hard to resist. I KNOW it involves alot of hard work, mentally and physically…3 years ago I was there, had a healthy body, felt like a million bucks, had so much confidence and I was smiling at the world and it was smiling back…Want that feeling back again, it’s priceless.