From Cocoon to butterfly

It has been a little while since posting but this site is really slow in my area. I can get onto other websites but this one is causing me problems at the moment so haven’t been blogging as much . Weight loss is going well. Made my mini goal and have set a new one. This new one is one I am very very excited about because it is one pound lighter then I got before I was pregnant with my last baby(who is almost 11months now)  So, to get there is so exciting for me. I am slowly changing my mentality. Sometimes , yes, I would love to eat some junk food or something but I have to remind myself, am I eating to live or living to eat. By asking that, it puts things in perspective for me so much. Only I can change myself so I have to be in control of what I eat and how I eat. Once I get to the next minigoal, I am setting the next one at 148, I havent’ been there since before I got married, about eight years ago! So, who is it up to to get to that goal?

Girl you know what you have to do and only you can do it…..so stop playing!”

Msmbamis (Adrienne)Journal your thoughts about THIS quote!I like this quote. It says a lot in just one sentence. First, I know what I have to do. All of us know what we have to and how we have to do it. We can lie and declare we are innocent and we really don’t know but deep down , we know. How many years have I stayed so fat and declared that I really did not care and really did not know how to lose weight but in reality, that chocolate going to my lips gave me my answer. WE know what needs to be done and we can’t wait for anyone else to do it, only WE can do it. Nobody can do it for us. When I gained my weight back, my husband becaume a pain in my rear. He kept after me about what I ate, how I ate and how big I was and all that. I know he was trying to help but nobody can do it for you. Everything has to be determined by ourselves or it just will not work. Many told me, do it for your kids or for your _____ but that doesn’t work. I have to do it for me. I have to stop playing. Many of us procrastinate so much and in wieght loss, boy, I think we are all experts in playing and not really getting to it. I know that many people that I tell about how to lose weight, they can’t imagine never “gasp” having sugar or other things but the truth is, until you are willing to stop playing, relaly get serious, you can never have the results you want. Think about the athletes at the Olympics. You have those that play and run track or things like that but they can never become great because to them, it is playing, just for fun. But to be great, to make it to the olympics, it becomes work. Losing weight is not a walk in the park, it is work. It has to be worked on from all aspects, food, mentality, thinking and so on. Athletes can’t do the sport, flal one time and say, ok, that is it, I messed up so I am just quitting, never. They keep going, pick themselves up and learn fromt hat mistake. They learn how NOT to do that mistake again. They don’t say, ok, I have reached the peak and am doing my best so now I am taking a week off. Nope, they keep pushing hemselves like we are going to have to push ourselves when we get to goal. I can’t do the crazy day off, I have to keep going. Keep the structure. So, only I can do it, I just hae to get serious and eat to live and not live to eat!