Why are we here, really?

Posted on May 9, 2017

Hopefully you are here because you want to achieve a healthy weight and live a healthier life. Basically what we are doing is:

learning what foods nourish you properly and aid weight loss and which foods sabotage you
reframing our mindsets for self-love and acceptance and a positive approach to a healthy lifestyle and weight loss and
learning strategies to deal with various challenging situations in our everyday lives.

Sounds simple, right?!?

We have built a lifetime of bad HABITS. We eat when we are bored, we eat foods that keep us overweight, we skip exercise because we don't feel like it, etc. Good news - bad habits can be changed, new healthy habits CAN be formed. But you have to stick with it. It used to be said that a new habit can be made in 21 days. WOW. More research has shown it is more like 66 days. This is not a bad thing. It just underscores there is no magic bullet and you need to practice, practice, practice. AND that you can build new healthy habits.

So don't let slips discourage you. They are part of the process, part of your journey.

The more you practice, the better you get at it - just like anything in life. I have been at this healthy lifestyle thing for 4 years now. Do I slip? Of course. Do I put 5 or even a few more pounds on sometimes? Yes, I do! But what I slip back into these days isn't my old habits, it is my new habits. They carry the day. YOU CAN DO THIS!

I battled my weight my entire life! I finally figured out a strategy that works and have basically kept over 60 pound off close to 4 years and now I help others do the same. Come join me in my new game starting Monday 5/15, the day after Mother's Day. You can find the game here: https://www.dietbet.com/games/96751

I would love to have you join us!

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BCbabe

05/09/2017 10:49AM

I had a conversation with my nurse practitioner yesterday similar to this. We were talking about the bariatric program and what I had gone through (she had a nursing student with her) I told that I really wondered what I had got myself into at first but now I think it was the best thing I had ever done. I said that I had lost 15 lbs over the 6 months and it seemed like the nurse for the program didn't seem happy (positive numbers ensure funding). My nurse asked me if I was happy with the loss, I told yes I was because I was truly looking for a body reset, blood work numbers are great and that is what I was going for. It was always about my health compared to my weight loss. There were mixed messages during the program but finding what we were after made more sense to me than anything they were telling me. Of course I also told her that because I was working out before starting the program and had to stop working out for the first 12 weeks I felt that it may have slowed my progress somewhat. So we will see when I check in with the program nurse in 2 weeks.

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BCbabe

thank you ladies, i truly believe that if the program had been adjusted to me so that I could have continued to work out i would have done better but it is what it is and I did the program and for that I am grateful.

Biking Syl

If nothing else, you learned what works for you and that your body wants to work out. I'm sure they mean well, but it was not 100 percent perfect for you. But you figured it out and you can move on with your improved plan of attack. Live and learn, I say! Big progress, congrats!

JayP

05/09/2017 7:30AM

Informative and inspirational as always, Marcie. The fact that you got the weight off and have kept it off encourages me to believe that I can do it too.

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Marcie

You can! I NEVER thought I would get down to a "not overweight" weight ever again. I thought I was too old, I thought my arthritis was too bad, my life was too busy and stressful and complicated. It CAN be done. And the focus on building healthy habits, good nutrition and solid strategies is what got me there. You can do it too!