The Difference Between Being Fit & Fat

"One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, "if it is to be, it is up to me." This doesn't mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career." -- Jim Rohn

Dance Your Dance

You have come to this juncture in your life, merely because something in you kept saying, “You deserve to be happy.” You were born to add something, to add value to this world. To simply be something, bigger and better than you were yesterday.

Every single thing you’ve been through, every single moment that you’ve come through, were to all prepare you for this moment right now. Imagine what you can do from this day forward with what you now know.

Now you get that you are the creator of your destiny. So how much more do you get to do? How much more do you get to be? How many more people do you get to bless, simply by your mere existence? What will you do with this moment? How will you seize the moment?

No one else can dance your dance, no one else can sing your song, no one else can write your story. Who you are, what you do, begins right now.

-- Lisa Nichols from “The Secret”

Love > Fear

My weight bounced up a bit this morning even though I stayed on track all day yesterday.  I know that everybody’s weight fluctuates from day to day so I shouldn’t be concerned … but I am approaching what I call my “trampoline”
zone. 

For a year I have bounced back and forth between 250 pounds and 235 pounds (my 100 pound mark).  It became frustrating so instead of just giving up, I decided to go on maintenance (with Isagenix) until my body was ready to lose more weight.  After seeing my weight bound upward this morning, even though it was minimal gain, regenerated the “fear” that I am not going to break my plateau again this time.

I asked myself all the questions about why I am stuck in this place. I know it has to do with “fear” … but fear of what?  The unknown?  Fear of success? Fear of failure?  I don’t know.

John Lennon once wrote:  “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” 

After meditating on this quote, I decided that what he said is true, I need to learn to love myself more.  And in loving myself I will push away the fear, because there is no room in me for both.

Conquering that Mountain

I woke up this morning to this quote:

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.  The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."    
- Earl Nightingale

I realize that releasing 130+ pounds is going to take some time.  When I think about how much time it is going to take, the task seems daunting.  Then I remember a little saying I learned in Overeaters Anonymous (OA): One day at a time. One pound at a time. 

There is no way I am going to release pound number 130 until I have released pound number 1!  Logical?  Here is an example of what I mean.  If I want to climb a mountain, I have to do it a step at a time.  Some of those steps are going to be baby steps ... some giant leaps ... and still some will be a slip backward ... and sometimes I am just going to have to sit down and rest.  If I focus on the peak of that mountain (my goal) and keep heading in the right direction I will reach that goal as long as I don't give up.  The same is true of releasing my excess weight. 

So here is to conquering that mountain!!!