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Loving Me

So a few people have made comments about my previous blog… (And I thought I was fat) not those of you in the competition but some others that read my blog but don’t comment often. They say things like, “Mindy, you just need to love yourself no matter what you look like.” Or “Being skinny won’t make you happy, YOU have to make yourself happy.” Or… well you get the point. So I just wanted to comment on those comments.

First of all, I do love me! But I’ve realized that loving me does not mean stuffing my face with greasy, fatty foods and processed flours and refined sugars. It doesn’t mean justifying my obesity with my recent pregnancy or blaming my busy schedule for lack of time to exercise. Loving me does not mean making excuses or laziness and emotional eating. Loving me does not equal complacent acceptance of bad choices.

Loving me means seeing myself when I look in the mirror, really seeing myself and realizing I can do better. Loving me means taking that realization and making plans to improve on what I see. Loving me means feeding my body nutrient dense high quality food often and giving my body everything it needs to run like a machine. Loving me means getting up and getting out… I’m talking about moving! Loving me means improving my heart and lungs while burning fat in the process. Loving me means setting goals and sticking with them, counting my successes not my failures and celebrating my victories along the way!

That’s what I’m doing. Right now for the first time in many years I am TRULY falling in love with me and I’m happy with who I am.

Jen and I were talking last night about the changes we see in our bodies and the changes we see in each other. She and I have been friends for about 8 years and we have “dieted” together or went on a “weight loss program” or challenge SO MANY TIMES!!! We were talking about our continued progression toward health and weight loss and that although sometimes we’d like to see higher numbers we can’t be upset with the constant decrease in weight and inches. Jen asked how many times have we tried to lose weight and given up? I said TO MANY!!! But no more! This time we succeed! One month at a time, one pound at a time, quickly or slowly we will continue our progress till we reach our ultimate goal.

THAT IS WHAT LOVING ME IS ALL ABOUT!

- So far this week I’m right on track for my goal of eating on menu 5-6 days and 3 cardio & 3 weight training days. I’m awesome! :0)

And i thought i was fat

I've been thinking so much about Karilynn's challenge for this week and I was pretty surprised at what I came up with.... or what I couldn’t come up with rather. Over the last couple of days I realized that I have NO FREAKING CLUE WHY I'M DOING THIS!!!

I had a bunch of ideas in my head and thought I knew exactly what I was doing and why but I was wrong. All of my reasons had something to do with other people. Healthy for my daughter, successful and sexy for my husband, I wanted to "out do" Karilynn overall or beat Jen at this competition. What I’ve realized is that NONE of those reasons have really got me very far.

I’m not discounting the success I’ve had but I have gotten really honest with myself. I only exercised 5 times in the month of January FIVE TIMES!!! 4 of which were in the same week. So yes it’s great that I lost 14 or so pounds but not nearly what I could have accomplished had I been focused or had a clear and concise goal. I did well but I could have done SOOOOOO much better. I’m not beating myself up or putting myself down so please don’t misunderstand. What I’m saying is that short of wanting to lose 100 lbs. in 1 year I haven’t really set many or any goals. I’ve said some stuff like, do better or blah blah but I haven’t gotten specific. I realized that I need to and I’m working on that.

So I was pondering all of this and watching Oprah (one tends to ponder I think when Oprah is on) and she said something that really hit home. She was talking about all of us having our “thing” to overcome or whatever and then she said this, “how great can your life be if you can just find the courage to live your own truth?” I almost fell out of my chair. “Eureka!” I thought… “That’s it!!”

That is why I’m doing this: I have finally found the courage to live my own truth. This body… this fat girl…This isn’t me! I am active and healthy, outgoing and adventurous, fit and energetic. I love clothes and make-up, dancing and singing. I have always been “a whole lot of woman” but I’ve walked tall and I’ve always been proud to be me. When I look in the mirror I see how beautiful I am and I’m confident on the edge of cocky but not quite. I love to talk and to create things. I am prophetic and artistic and a really great friend.

So that’s why I’m doing this. At some point in the last couple of years I let a whole string of bad choices turn me into someone I don’t even recognize. I know how I got here I’m just not sure why I let it happen. What I’ve discovered in the last few days is it’s not as important to figure out why or how this happened but to figure out why and how I’m going to change it. So I’m setting some goals… some VERY, VERY, VERY specific goals.

Let’s see what happens shall we?

I thought I’d throw in some pictures of me from different points in my life. I look back on these pictures and see me doing things I love… I see me. I thought that I was fat in every one of these pictures. How stupid was that? I wish I had known then what I know now.


I was reading someones blog and they put at the bottom: "Goal to report on next week" I love this idea and so here goes. My Goal for this week is to Eat perfectly on Menu 5-6 days. Exercise 3 times resistance 3 times cardio. I'll let you know next week how I did.

BYE BYE 300!!!

A PICTURE IS WORTH 1000 WORDS SO HERE YOU GO...

I'VE BEEN WAITING TO WRITE THIS BLOG FOR A LONG TIME! I'M SO GLAD IT'S FINALLY HERE. AS KARILYNN SAID I'VE GOT NOT TIME TO CELEBRATE

BECAUSE I AM NEVER GOING TO SEE 300 AGAIN!

This Week I'm Weak

Or at least it seems that way. Work is exhausting and although I've gone to the gym every day i haven't lost even a pound. I've been craving anything sweet for days and i think it has more to do with stress than anything. Also, I LOVE DONUTS!!! I know some people cringe in disgust at that thought but I can't help it. i think they are a wonderful YUMMY treat! (not that I'm eating them every day or anything but I can't seem to give up my once a week splurge... sorry Kari. LOL) I'm not sure I'm going to make my goal for this month of 13.4 lbs. it's so close i can almost taste it but it also seem so far away. DAMN DONUTS! LOL...

I guess in a couple days we will see. Hope everyone is doing awesome. Can't wait to see our results for this month.