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If you would like to share your journey, but you don't want to become a contributor, you may send me your story and photos and I'll post it on your behalf. Or, if you would like to become a part of my Heroes Series, I would love to add your story!
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I'll email you and then you'll reply to that email with your story and photos.
Silence is Golden
It's perfectly fine to just read my blog and not engage by adding comments or writing your own posts. Lots of you do this and I'm happy that my journey is helping you or perhaps entertaining you. Keep doing what you're doing and I wish you the best on your weight loss journey.
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Let me know if you try one of these steps and you are not successful and I'll troubleshoot for you. To reach me, post a comment anywhere and an email will come to me with your question. Include your email so I can respond to you. Your comment won't be posted.
NEWBIE and NERVOUS Its my 3rd complete day of week 1 and i feel different. I am scared, nervous and happy and excited all at once. Can I finally do this? Is this what I needed all along? I have read almost the entire blog and am incredibly inspired by all the genuine comments. I need help with a couple of things. In the past I have always been extremely hard on my self. never swaying and never tasting or cheating. Then I would fall and not get back on track for years. Vicious cycle. Some of what I read here goes either way, cheat and get back on, don't cheat and stay on. I don't want to cheat. Will my age, 56, hold me back? I am lazy and don't like to exercise. Although I do swim, walk and garden a little bit. I have an elliptical and need to motivate myself to get on it. will that come with weight loss? I am excited to go back to my 2nd session and greatly appreciate all your advice and wisdom. :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Ann on your new weight loss journey. Scared, nervous, happy, and excited, all sound exactly like how many of us felt our first week on this program.
ReplyDeleteThis program is different from anything you've done before. The ideal way to approach it is: once and done. Give 100% to the process, see it through, reach you goal, learn how to stay there, and then this way of life will be natural enough you won't need to give it much thought - do it one time and be done with dieting.
There are many who have success with this program who are much older, so no your age isn't an issue.
Julie helps with the exercise every time you see her, even if she doesn't mention this. I took 8 months to begin to exercise and 2 months later ran a 5k. But not everyone is going to take up running. That works for me.
If you want to live a long healthy life, exercise in some form should become a part of your life. When you start and what form is up to you. Exercise does help you lose weight, but it also helps you feel better and have more energy.
Meanwhile, be gentle on yourself and be proud that you've taken a big step to change your life.
Hi I just went to the doctor and told him not to tell me the weight -- HE DID; I heard the number -- which I was shocked; so I asked him I just want to know if I am under XXX he said no and give me the number .... I called for a refresher ??? what should I do? I am so upset!
ReplyDeleteYou didn't intentionally find out the numbers (which I appreciate you didn't share here), so you're ok.
ReplyDeleteForget the numbers. You were right not to say what they were - keep it this way. Telling someone else keeps the number alive in your mind. Tap the numbers away.
You don't have to go to a refresh for this reason alone. If you have other reasons for going, then do so by all means, but since this knowledge wasn't something you sought out, you'll be fines.
Center yourself. Refocus. Visualize where you want to go and what you want to look like. Let the numbers drop from your mind like pennies falling from your pocket to the ground.
Cha Ching. They're gone.