There are nine days left in the diet bet challenge and I see that some of you have not weighed in or haven't weighed in a while and I wanted to just check in. Perhaps you may be farther from your goal than you had hoped. If that is the case I want to encourage you to not give up. I too am unsure if I will make the 4% goal, but guess what??? I have stayed on track and have lost weight so I consider myself a winner already. Sure I would LOVE to win the money, but if I don't I am not throwing in the towel. I also won't do anything drastic to hit my goal as I know it will not get me to my end goal any sooner and that is to be the most fit and healthy I can be.
I love the picture I have included in this post because it truley demonstrates the road to success. We have all these illusions that this will be the time we finally eat perfectly, excercise perfectly, diet perfectly...ect ect. Well life is just not that way and quite honestly our bodies don't always immediatly reflect the effort that we are putting in, but if we are consistently working on an end goal it will happen despite all the twists and turns in the road.
I am committed to losing the weight despite how long it takes me because in the long run I know it will be so much better for my health and happiness. I am so committed that I plan to do another diet bet challenge during the holidays, because again whether I lose the 4% or not as long as I lose something I am ahead of the game.
I already think each and every one of you is a winner for making this committment to yourself. I hope that we can all finish strong, continue to support each other in this challenge and I would love for you to join me in the next one :).