What Have You Done Today to Make You Feel Proud? Hiatus

Hey all of you fine, good looking, beautiful people!   I pray this day finds you in the process of making all of your dreams come true and that you are able to see in your heart all that you've accomplished.  For some of us, it seems that the big picture is so broad that we only look at how far we have to go, and don't give ourselves the respect that we deserve for how far we've come.  Weight loss ain't for sissies and just the fact alone that you are even 'trying' to become healthy is something of which we can all be proud...way to give a damn about yasselves my peeps!

I am in the process of getting ready for my little surgery tomorrow and I wanted to say that the Proud post will be on hiatus until further notice. 

I still have to go dye my hair...of course you didn't think this red hair was "natural".  But before I do that, I still have to do my "Last Chance Workout"!  One final hoorah before I go down for six weeks of no heavy exercising.  Good grief, I hope I don't gain a ton from the inactivity.  

Mary

Mary....good luck to you tomorrow.  I will be keeping you in my prayers.  Funny how we ***** (me anyways) about having to exercise and then miss it when we can't.  All those years I had the luxury of being able to walk for exercise and didn't (now and then maybe)....now that I can no longer do that I would LOVE the opportunity.

We do need to be proud of the efforts we are making.  Holly and I were discussing this.  I have only maintained my weight for the last 5 years or so....actually probably fluctuated only about 10-15lb all that time.  And during this whole time I was TRYING to lose weight!  Just imagine what would have happened if I hadn't been making any effort and eating whatever I pleased?  It really scares me where I would be today....perhaps so big I'd be confined to my house, or maybe even dead.

I get so discouraged that I've spent my entire life trying to lose weight and still haven't succeeded...but when I put it in perspective, I have accomplished something.  I for the most part eat healthy and am always aware of what's going in my mouth.  I'm proud that I made the concious decision to go off plan yesterday....enjoyed the whole experience....and have managed to return to plan today.  (so far, at least)

Yanno Sherrie, I think it's human nature to take for granted that we will always be healthy.  When we are young, our body can take the abuses, so we tend to forget that when we age, it's ALL going to catch up with us.  It's like my mug says...If I knew I was going to live to be this old, I would have taken better care of myself!

So yes, you have to give yourself heaps of credit for doing something, anything, to get to a better place than you are now.  And be thankful that you can swim your li'l heart out.  Keep that up and you'll be on a steady path to feeling better...physically, mentally, and spiritually.  God created these bodies to be in motion!

I love that little king dude on Madagascar,  "I like to move it, move it...I like to move it, move it!"

Mary

Good luck Mar!

Thanks Neen!  I can't wait to get this over with and call this part of my life over and done.  One more little tweek and I will have gotten back all that years of obesity has stolen from me.  

It feels great and I wish the same for you some day real soon!

Mary 

Darling Mary. You should say what I say about the hair color question. "Yes, my hair color is natural. It says so on the bottle."

I will now post my results, although I have to say -
I  C-H-E-A-T-E-D pretty much the whole week.

But before you start laughing, consider this! I was planning to eat all Isagenix foods for the week, and drop 10lbs. Instead I had the most off-track week I think I've ever had! I ate white pasta with homemade pesto and French bread, Fettuccini Alfredo, Snickerdoodles, crackers, roast beef, potatoes, wine, beer, and all kinds of goodies AND - I lost two pounds. Now, after my food porn week, I'm at 4 lbs over my desired body weight of 135.

I know that the reason for this is that I was still having one to three Isagenix meals per day, and doing my cleansing routine.

I'll reach 135 on Monday, if not before.

If we can stop having daily company, things can get back to semi-normal.

I will still post a photo, as promised, but I haven't taken one yet. I'm also going to post the 4-week postpartum photos of my daughter who is back in her little bitty clothes and looks absolutely amazing. She's a one shake a day girl, and Isagenix got her back to pre-baby so quickly it's impossible to tell she had one.

I'm PROUD of my girl - which is my proud to go on this proud page before our dear Mary is having her hiatus hernia. No, wait... Hiatus.

One of these days I'll be able to conduct that experiment of what happens when you consume ONLY Isagenix foods for one week. Meanwhile, I'm not sad at the 2 lb loss during a cheater's paradise week.

Ruth aka Mom Shap aka Grandma

Well it sounds like SOMEBODY had themselves a high old time on the hawg!  So Ruthie, our little health nut, drinks BEER.  I'm Shocked.  SHOCKED  I tell you!  Although I'm not sure if I'm not even MORE shocked that you ate white pasta, which has no nutritional value whatsoevva.  Dayum Ruth, when you blow it out, you blow it out of the park!  Good thing you've got the cleanse going or you would look like you're the one who had the baby.

And here I was the other day bragging on how much water you drink.  I hope you can fit it all in there without that French bread expanding on ya! 

Mary 

Good luck Mary I will be thinking of you!!! Keep us posted and theres nottin wrong with red, my 16mo old has natural red hair and OMG what a temper!!!!

Well I do not have anything to be proud of today! I am sick, I did not exercise today, AND I have had nothing from the Atkins Plan, soo.....nottin to be proud of here. I think I have been trying to convince myself that I was back on track when I really wasnt (let me know if I am alone here!!) So, not sure what I am gonna do yet............Anyway I need to quit whining and pull up my big gurl pants, suck it up and GET THE HELL BACK ON THE HORSE!!!!! okay, I literally screamed that!!! I think I scared myself and my kids and husband all looked at me, LOL!! Anyway!! I will keep everyone posted YET AGAIN!!! I am sorry to EVERYONE for this ON, OFF, ON, OFF, SH*T (I bleeped out the I on purpose).

I am sorry mary this post was about you surgery, so I well stop blubbering!!!! LOVE YOU AND I WILL KEEP YOU IN MY PRAYERS!!
I am sure all will be well

Well, technically, this post is not about me...it's about making us think.  And girlee, you have been DOING some thinking!  I understand where you are at about not being in the right frame of mind to get back on that nag.  So may I make a suggestion.  Sometimes we can get overwhelmed with all of this diet AND exercising bidness, it can all get a li'l stressful at times.  And stress releases cortisol hormones that make you retain belly fat.  Yikes!  So maybe instead of taking an all or nothing approach, maybe you could do one thing and get that down pat, and THEN add another.  Since your head is not into dieting, maybe you could really get into your workouts.  Then after that, you may realize that you can't fuel a hard workout on junk, and then get back into the diet.  This ain't the Biggest Loser, you don't get a prize for doing it all in one shot.  It works better that way, but honey, you are leading a REAL life!

Thanks for the prayers,

Mary

I will do that. Kind of a behind approach!! Thanks for the suggestion Mary.