Saturday, February 2, 2013
What inspires me!
When you start your weight loss journey, you must ask your self what inspires you! Why do you do what you do! My kids! number one is what pushes me to live this healthy better life style. I dont want my children to face the demons I face from my childhood and body image I have. Also I want to help others and thirdly I want to be around for a long time! I have to much to do on this earth!
Can you relate to this? What makes you want to be better!
Set backs!
Hello 2013! How has it been so far for my friends out there. A little update on me! OUCH is all I can say! My 2012-2013 hasnt been so wonderful. First my health hasnt been the greatest. I had a few mini strokes a few months ago, and was put in the hospital for some time. I also had some weight gain. Which for me was very hard. I work hard daily to live and breath fitness and to empower other people to live a better life style and I turn around and gain weight and become very un healthy! But as well all do we get set backs. Sometimes life steps in and stops us from what we want to happen. But with that said its time to step up my game! As well as say to my readers, please FORGIVE your self when you have a set back. YOU can get back on track and YOU can make better changes. Please dont be so hard on your self that you allow that little voice in side tell you that you CANT do something.
What is your biggest fear? What stops you from loving your self? Maybe some of you can relate to this, when I was a little girl I was picked on for my weight. I was always the big kid as I talk about in other blogs. But now as an adult the little voice in my head says well whatever betsy, you know it will feel better with that dount and food will never let you down and people will. Just like in relationships they say 80% of couples will gain 40lbs each over a 9 year study. WOW why is this? well because they become comfortable with each other, and go out to eat more and enjoy cooking. I love cooking a good meal and watching people enjoy it and make their plates all clean. Food is a battle for me every day. I love to eat! I love to feel full! Why do they make food taste so good thats bad for u! :) Thru time you will learn to love food that will taste good and feel good and not add 10 lbs to your butt!
What are some things you say to your self every day in the mirror! What are your goals! What are your dreams! ASK your self those things and reflect on them! In the next few blogs we are going to work on those lists together and help you and me make those goals become real!
What is your biggest fear? What stops you from loving your self? Maybe some of you can relate to this, when I was a little girl I was picked on for my weight. I was always the big kid as I talk about in other blogs. But now as an adult the little voice in my head says well whatever betsy, you know it will feel better with that dount and food will never let you down and people will. Just like in relationships they say 80% of couples will gain 40lbs each over a 9 year study. WOW why is this? well because they become comfortable with each other, and go out to eat more and enjoy cooking. I love cooking a good meal and watching people enjoy it and make their plates all clean. Food is a battle for me every day. I love to eat! I love to feel full! Why do they make food taste so good thats bad for u! :) Thru time you will learn to love food that will taste good and feel good and not add 10 lbs to your butt!
What are some things you say to your self every day in the mirror! What are your goals! What are your dreams! ASK your self those things and reflect on them! In the next few blogs we are going to work on those lists together and help you and me make those goals become real!
Saturday, September 15, 2012
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Monday, September 3, 2012
I'm back!
Well my blogging friends! I know its been awhile since ive posted, I'm sorry for my long time away. Life has gotten away from me! FITNESS update!
I have been living at the gym again!! Which mentally is helping alot. I hit a bad spot for a min. I was working all the time, and of course being mommy and trying to balance that all with house care and running around etc and I let the gym time slip away.
SO my tip of the day, a fitness journal, I wont lie, when I first started it, I had a hard time remembering to write in it, and add all my daily things, but after about 2 weeks it was alot easier! I think the best thing to start with in your journal is to write what you ate for the day, then add what physical activity you did. Mark if you took the stairs and not the elevator or you walked farther from the store. And after 2 weeks you will see what you did. If you go to the gym write down what weights you used, and what things you did, maybe even write lil challanges for yourself! Tomorrow ill eat 100 less cals and Ill do 15 more mins of cardio, or ill walk farther at the store, or ill do 100 jumping jacks! every lil bit counts when you are making life changes.
I started to after 2 weeks, write down why I ate things, I really was craving Ice cream one night, and I kept thinking about it, wanting it, I could almost taste it! well then I was wondering why, is my body needing some form of dairy product, was I depressed over something and needed a mental boost from the yummy ness of ice cream, was it I just that hungry... what was it... after i figured it out I was bord, had a crappy day and I was trying to self sooth, my craving went away! and bam I didnt eat the 200 cal ice cream! But I did write it down in the fitness journal.
This idea helped too around my "girlie" time. What was I craving then, why was I craving it. Did I eat salty foods cause I really needed it or was it habit because its socially ok to pig out before our periods to help self sooth our misery! I needed to stop giving my self permission to eat crappy foods just because everyone says its ok! I say its not ok, I say I needed to make a mental change that means I stop allowing my self to self destroy my hard work. I need to look at my self in the mirror and say im not the fat lil girl I used to be and damn it stop reverting to that behavior! I am an adult who can make adult choices! I cant blame anyone but me for my poor eating and lack of working out. And finally you are worth the body you want! Health is number one in my mind. I have lived unhealthy mind body and soul long enough and it needs to be about whats good for the whole! Start new patterns, new good habits!
Lets rock this together! whos with me!
I have been living at the gym again!! Which mentally is helping alot. I hit a bad spot for a min. I was working all the time, and of course being mommy and trying to balance that all with house care and running around etc and I let the gym time slip away.
SO my tip of the day, a fitness journal, I wont lie, when I first started it, I had a hard time remembering to write in it, and add all my daily things, but after about 2 weeks it was alot easier! I think the best thing to start with in your journal is to write what you ate for the day, then add what physical activity you did. Mark if you took the stairs and not the elevator or you walked farther from the store. And after 2 weeks you will see what you did. If you go to the gym write down what weights you used, and what things you did, maybe even write lil challanges for yourself! Tomorrow ill eat 100 less cals and Ill do 15 more mins of cardio, or ill walk farther at the store, or ill do 100 jumping jacks! every lil bit counts when you are making life changes.
I started to after 2 weeks, write down why I ate things, I really was craving Ice cream one night, and I kept thinking about it, wanting it, I could almost taste it! well then I was wondering why, is my body needing some form of dairy product, was I depressed over something and needed a mental boost from the yummy ness of ice cream, was it I just that hungry... what was it... after i figured it out I was bord, had a crappy day and I was trying to self sooth, my craving went away! and bam I didnt eat the 200 cal ice cream! But I did write it down in the fitness journal.
This idea helped too around my "girlie" time. What was I craving then, why was I craving it. Did I eat salty foods cause I really needed it or was it habit because its socially ok to pig out before our periods to help self sooth our misery! I needed to stop giving my self permission to eat crappy foods just because everyone says its ok! I say its not ok, I say I needed to make a mental change that means I stop allowing my self to self destroy my hard work. I need to look at my self in the mirror and say im not the fat lil girl I used to be and damn it stop reverting to that behavior! I am an adult who can make adult choices! I cant blame anyone but me for my poor eating and lack of working out. And finally you are worth the body you want! Health is number one in my mind. I have lived unhealthy mind body and soul long enough and it needs to be about whats good for the whole! Start new patterns, new good habits!
Lets rock this together! whos with me!
Friday, May 25, 2012
Why I blog
Why I blog, well I am just getting the hang of this blog thing, so my blogs arent that great so far, but I am just a normal mom, who works and who has struggled with weight, depression, co dependent issues and the list goes on like so many other people out there. I wanted to blog so I can share my story and maybe thru sharing my story I am able to help someone else have an " A Ha" moment and make new and better changes in their life.
I am not an expert, or trained, or certified I am just a normal persone trying to make it thru this world like everyone else the best that I can. I will omit thru this you might read about my set backs, my worries, my fails but thats good too, it shows im human and make mistakes and have real life things. I sometimes see peoples blogs like famous people or people who just whine about nothing. I tend to not have alot of faith in them or learn much because I put my guard up and stop listening. I am guilty of judgement but wait arent we all!
I have a goal list which I am going to post, cause not only am I wanting to help others with this blog I am using this to keep me accountable and this is where I need my readers to help!
1. Lose weight
2. Body build
3. Find something I love and stick with it for a year
4. Become more social in a healthy manor
5. Meet some new people
6. Find 30 mins aday for just me
7. Get out of debt
8. Teach my kids something new ( a life time change)
9. BE ME! -Stop pleasing everyone
10. Become mentally and physically healthy
Thats a big list huh! Well ok blogger friends keep me going too! I want to help you and help me! :) Can we do it yes we can! Lets rock 2012, and who knows what will 2013 will bring and I promise my blog skills will get better!
I am not an expert, or trained, or certified I am just a normal persone trying to make it thru this world like everyone else the best that I can. I will omit thru this you might read about my set backs, my worries, my fails but thats good too, it shows im human and make mistakes and have real life things. I sometimes see peoples blogs like famous people or people who just whine about nothing. I tend to not have alot of faith in them or learn much because I put my guard up and stop listening. I am guilty of judgement but wait arent we all!
I have a goal list which I am going to post, cause not only am I wanting to help others with this blog I am using this to keep me accountable and this is where I need my readers to help!
1. Lose weight
2. Body build
3. Find something I love and stick with it for a year
4. Become more social in a healthy manor
5. Meet some new people
6. Find 30 mins aday for just me
7. Get out of debt
8. Teach my kids something new ( a life time change)
9. BE ME! -Stop pleasing everyone
10. Become mentally and physically healthy
Thats a big list huh! Well ok blogger friends keep me going too! I want to help you and help me! :) Can we do it yes we can! Lets rock 2012, and who knows what will 2013 will bring and I promise my blog skills will get better!
Sizes/Shapes/Views
What is a sexy size? What is a sexy shape? Who is the population that said size 0 was sexy? I was sitting at a local coffee shop the other day and I was listening to theses young men talk about how hot the waitress was and how they would take her home! Now, was this waitress pretty, yes she was however this is what our men in society are taught to act like when a lady comes into a room. I felt bad for her, I think the idea of someone making comments like that are not good. It is empowering to be pretty and its empowering to have people think you are stunning but to be " pretty to get laid" sucks! I was thinking about what our kids are programed to think is pretty and what we teach our kids how to have relationships with other people. Where I work I see it first hand all the time. Kids have no idea how to have a healthy relationship with each other and think they will grow up and have an even worse time.
Self a steam! why cant girls be princess and boys be princes! we are forced to grow up so fast and not love life and have no worries. This creates eating issue. If one is chubby and picked on, one will get bigger and bigger and eat to self sooth, or they will no eat and have another disorder. Why are we so cruel to each other why do we miss treat our own bodies like this. Why do we allow what others say effect what we do to our selves. I am just as guilty. This week was a very bad week for me, and I faced somethings in my life i never wanted to face, however I took it to the gym, This I have to say is the first time I took my issues to the gym and I went there and beat up weights I went and ran more on the treadmill. I did this instead of eating that box of dounts or binging on bad food. SO I am happy with myself trust me this mama normally would just self sooth with junk food.
We as little princess and little princes need to take some of our power back and stop allowing people to rule what we are doing. It makes me so sad when I see 9 year olds tell me how they need to look like britney spears and how they are getting boob implants! I mean really! 9, 10, 11 at those ages I had barbie dolls and played with my friends and had fun NEVER did I think about boob jobs, or tummy tucks. We have allowed our kids grow up so fast. At my sons school field trip a lil boy had his cell phone, keep in mind my son is 7, and he was looking up things on youtube that 7 year olds should not be looking up. Kids tv now are showing girls how to be sexy at 11 it just flips me out. And we wonder why we have kids hurting themselves at 12 13 14 etc. I wish I could make a program to teach kids about healthy fitness, food and relationships! We can teach them how to say no to drugs but not how to live a positive life! How messed up is our nation!
Self a steam! why cant girls be princess and boys be princes! we are forced to grow up so fast and not love life and have no worries. This creates eating issue. If one is chubby and picked on, one will get bigger and bigger and eat to self sooth, or they will no eat and have another disorder. Why are we so cruel to each other why do we miss treat our own bodies like this. Why do we allow what others say effect what we do to our selves. I am just as guilty. This week was a very bad week for me, and I faced somethings in my life i never wanted to face, however I took it to the gym, This I have to say is the first time I took my issues to the gym and I went there and beat up weights I went and ran more on the treadmill. I did this instead of eating that box of dounts or binging on bad food. SO I am happy with myself trust me this mama normally would just self sooth with junk food.
We as little princess and little princes need to take some of our power back and stop allowing people to rule what we are doing. It makes me so sad when I see 9 year olds tell me how they need to look like britney spears and how they are getting boob implants! I mean really! 9, 10, 11 at those ages I had barbie dolls and played with my friends and had fun NEVER did I think about boob jobs, or tummy tucks. We have allowed our kids grow up so fast. At my sons school field trip a lil boy had his cell phone, keep in mind my son is 7, and he was looking up things on youtube that 7 year olds should not be looking up. Kids tv now are showing girls how to be sexy at 11 it just flips me out. And we wonder why we have kids hurting themselves at 12 13 14 etc. I wish I could make a program to teach kids about healthy fitness, food and relationships! We can teach them how to say no to drugs but not how to live a positive life! How messed up is our nation!
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Blessed!!!
Just want you to know you have been an inspiration since the first day i met you...we may not be close but the knowledge you have given me and always believing in me has taken myself to a new level...down 11 lbs. In 6 days...i will make mistakes,i will doubt myself...but if i try hard everyday to make little changes i can accomplish my goals without surgery...even if it takes me 2 years...going to physical therapy and have 2 fabulous drs helping me out...thank you for being you!!- Danyel
* People like her keep me going as well! This lady is a stunning lady! She is battling so many things with weight and health and she keeps pushing thru! :)
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