Up and Down

Not only the story of life but the story of my weight. Not sure if I'm just not being strict enough in following a routine or if my scale is broken but literally one day I weigh myself and I'm 5pounds heavier the next day 5 pounds lighter...what's with that? I'm starting to think that it may have more to do with the scale that has been soaked with water a couple of times than it does my program.

Did I mention that Ellie broke my Richard Simmons DVD? The DVD that can only be found on Ebay or at his web site? Well, she broke it. I guess my little baby girl is becoming more of a toddler everyday. Thankfully though a good friend of mine bought me a new work out video for my birthday. You may have heard of it, it's a Leslie Sansone video titled Walk the Walk...it's "Christian Inspired" the exercise is really good. Simple, very basic and anyone, including me, can do it. It's not as an intense of a workout as Richard Simmons but it does the same thing and great for beginners! I definitely had no trouble at all following it, still felt great at the end, and still broke a sweat. I highly recommend the video to anyone looking to do a quick workout routine at the beginning of the day.

A while back I talked about how I wanted to share a few lessons that I have learned through my past attempts at losing weight. I hope that I can articulately share one of those lessons with you now.

Lesson 1... My main motivation to lose weight needs to be for the reason of becoming healthy and not for becoming skinny. If my goal to lose weight is solely for the purpose of becoming skinny I will then be setting myself up to fail.

Let's face it. We all know that one woman who is so beautiful, so gorgeous, so skinny but still calls herself fat. We can all think of a person that we would like to slap and say to them..."YOU'RE CRAZY" for her even thinking that way. The truth is though that "skinny" is to be determined the eye of the beholder. Everyone will have their own opinion of what "skinny" looks like. Let's just say that I was to reach my opinion of what "skinny" is and then someone points out to me their opinion and in an instance I can change my opinion to some one else and therefore have not really lived up to being "skinny." I have then failed to reach my goal.

However, if my motivation to lose weight is to become healthy I set my focus on an entirely different purpose. Not only so but then my success isn't necessarily even based on whether or not I lose weight but more if I have made healthy choices for that day. I therefore always give myself the opportunity to succeed which motivates me to keep pressing onward.

My motivation to lose weight has a whole lot more to it than just being healthy but I am having trouble placing that into words right now nor do I think that it really goes with this particular post. So I'll just end with this...if you are trying to lose weight ask yourself what the reason really is don't set yourself up to fail, set yourself up to succeed.