7 days at under 1500 Calories each day
7 days without white sugar or flour
7 days with at least an hour or more of exercise
7 days recording everything I eat.
7 days of drinking my face off and literally camping out in the wc
7 days of still cooking 'normally' for friends and fam and not partaking (this included 4 dozen sugar cookies and 3 dozen homemade biscuits) not a bite....
Pray for me schmeeples.....it feels like the devil himself lives in my shoulder and hip this morning. I'm tough, but still need the extra boosts to get me through.
My 20 year anniversary with Marc (since our first date) is this fall, and I want to have my body match my spirit by then.
Do you know what that means?
Since my weight issues have been seemingly insurmountable it just has felt like my vivacious and free and adventurous and enthusiastic SPIRIT has not matched my tired, exhausted, painful, frustrating, limiting, heavy, perpetually 'stuck' BODY.
The only way you can relate to my dilema is to imagine yourself doing any excercise while having the flu. Yep, thats how it feels pretty much everytime. Also think about how much you care about what you eat when you are really sick. Its been that way for me for a long long time. Survival mode. But.....
I want them to match again. MY spirit and MY body with an = equals mark inbetween.
Its absolutely NOT going to be easy. This I know. But, this time I am 'sharing'. Barf, gag, burf..... I HATE that part. HATE. Yet, I have a feeling that is the part I have been missing. So.........
There ya go. That was this week. I will weigh in tomorrow, and if you think I will 'share' that part, UM,.....you be c.r.a.z.y.!
Thanks for the support! I need it! AND Can finally admit it!!! Sort of.
You're amazing - talk about will power and self-control! Can't fathom exercising with the flu, though - my kids have been waking up all hours of the night and that's been my excuse to sit on the couch. I do find I do best when I am talking to people about it though and I know that they know that I'm trying. Don't know if that makes sense, but way to go - always praying for ya!
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ReplyDeleteI think that you are doing an incredible job Debi! You're not messing around! And I LOVE IT! I'm going to have to step it up! =)
When the devil is on your shoulder, put a friend there is stead. Either call up a friend and get encouragement or give encouragement. it always makes us feel better when we give to someone else. Or call up another teams member and brag about how good you're doing. That will make them step it up and then you will have to step up to keep up with them. HA HA HA I would never do something like that! ;)
BTW you probably know this, but the "oficial" weigh in day is Monday. I started on Saturday after the weigh in too but I'm going to count the monday weight as THE number. You probably knew that but I was just making sure.
Sorry if my comment shows up twice some how. Keep it up Debi! I truly believe in you!
Yeah, I started 'the change' the friday before everyone else, so its just a personal 7 days. You are so sweet. Thank you for the kind words! Gosh, I hope this works or I will feel super foolish right? YOU are one of my favs! Its gonna be a fun summer :)
ReplyDeleteDebi, you go girl! I did a "Challenge" for 8 weeks w/ those same goals plus journal, spiritual time, couple other things and it felt great. I didn't lose weight, I too hurt like heck every time I do anything...or nothing (autoimmune sucks). BUT my point is that even though didn't melt to nothing and hurt most of the time doing it, I still was healthier, happier, and more balanced than I've been in a long time. It's a good feeling to check off small accomplishments every day that have been good for the body, mind, spirit, soul...Good luck this week too. You're awesome and you can sure do hard things.
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