Positive Thoughts for Tuesday

I decided to start a Positivity post every Tuesday.  I will reflect on the positive things about this journey we are all on, and post some words of encouragement to my fellow sistahs in this fight.

Today's Topic: Every little bit is a victory. 

I think that we really need to remember that.  As long as the net resultant is a loss of weight, don't sweat the little gains here and there.  (You can tell I am an engineer, right?) 

I started to look at my gains as a sign of failure.   But weight loss is systematic.  Meaning - it involves the whole system.

I started to really get down over the past few weeks yo-yoing, but I am back on track, and honestly I think it is just my body's way of adjusting to the new lifestyle.  Not good or bad... just the adjustment period.

Our bodies do not like us to loose weight, as they are quite comfortable in the place they are now.  Today.   Remember - our bodies are efficient.  The goal of our body - the scientific wonder it is - is purely to sustain living.  Any deviation from your current inputs and outputs literally shocks the body into the fear of death.  So we yo-yo. And then we plateau.  These are all natural progressions as our bodies are doing exectly what they were made to do - sustain life. 

The little losses are as big of victories as the major ones.  I look at my recent 1lb loss (today) as a victory over self-doubt.  I am tearing down the blocks of the former me, and building mysel fup stronger and better.  Wiser,  Healthier.

Now for me that translates into a thinner me as well, but I consider the slimming down a bonus of getting healthy.  :)  It is a fun cycle, is it not?

So if you are out there, and feeling blue over a stall, a slight gain, or a little binge.  Just remember that you are not derailed completely.  You are human, and just as your body needs to adjust to the new you and the new way of life, so do you.

 So today, let us celebrate all things good about ourselves. 

Today I celebrate leaving my 30's healthier than I started them.

What about you?  What are you celebrating today?

You get anymore profound....

And I can see that I am going to have to buy your books off the shelf!

When you appear on Oprah I will be able to say, "I remember when she was just RunnerGirl--before she became super hot Runner Chick New York Times Best Seller Extraordinaire"!

I love this. I am going to copy it and take it to work.

Shauna

Response to 13.1 journey blog

I have been having a heck of a time posting to your regular site. Tonight it kept saying that there s/b no more than 300 characters. Knowing that I am a little verbose at times I kept trimming the response back to next to nothing and it kept giving me that msg.

There has been a lot of that exhaustion going around down here. Many of my friends, co-workers, and ep girlz have been complaining of the same. I think it is some freaky galaxy thing! Tonight I emailed my aunt in Huntsville to please have her rocket scientist friends check into that for us! LOL

You are going to spontaneously human combust from your activity level--or I might from reading about your activity level! LOL

Great Job Jenn, Shauna