From or Towards the Plan

What have I learned this week?  One small jag from or towards the plan can make a big difference.

[FROM]On Thursday I was having a very stressful day and I wanted chocolate.  Pair my stressful day with it being the time of the month when I really want chocolate, the craving was too much to ignore. Rather than just get a small candy bar, I went full force into chocolate mode:

The Disappointing News

So now the disappointing news I teased a few days ago.  I'm sure you all have been holding your breath waiting for me to share. HaHa.

Anyway....

Let me start by saying for those who might not know, a few years ago I started running to lose weigh and ended up losing 20 lbs before it was all said and done.  [Read a full post.]

I mentioned a few weeks back that my pants were getting tight and I'm pretty sure that I had gained weight.  Last week I bought a scale, because I wanted to know just how much weigh I have gained.  Remember that 20 lbs?  It's baaacckkk! Mostly.  It just makes me sick.  After all the work I did, I have gained almost all of it back.  I'm really disappointed in myself.

Please excuse my Christmas socks...my feet were cold.

Motivation

It is really hard to find motivation to get healthy.  I hear many people talk about how they want to lose weight or eating healthier, but then many times what follows is the excuses of why they can't. I am no exception to this.  Recently I have used my busy-ness as my excuse. BUT if you (and I) really want to get healthy we have to reach down inside ourselves, find our true motivation and hold onto that.

A blog I follow, Ganey.com, recently had a guest post talk about finding your motivation. I encourage you to read it.  You can do so here.

Motivation part 1 - this guy and our wedding, next summer.

Change is not easy, but it can be done! Read that blog, find your motivation and let's do it!

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M O T I V A T I O N

10

Well hello there.  It has been a while….again.  I’m hoping this changes.  How have you been?  I’m hoping well. I have some bad news.  You may have noticed the title. 10.  Allow me to explain that to you.  

A cinnamon role I bought to support a friend's church booth and Grand Rapids Festival of the Arts.  The largest volunteer run festival in the country I believe.  The festival is awesome! As was this cinnamon role, which I promptly ate entirely by myself.  I should've shared it with someone

Motivation

I recently stumbled across a story on MSN.com about people who lost a ton of weight and how they did it.  I love reading these stories.  Even though I have not lost 80lbs (and if I did I'd be dead), reading about people who have lost a ton of weight is very inspiring for me.  There was one of these people who lost the weight, who has a blog which I started following.  His name is Bryan Ganey and he has lost 284lbs!  He recently did a post on motivation.  He said that people who also want to lose weight, often ask him where they can get motivation.  He tells them that it has to come from themselves, so I thought that I would share my motivation. 

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