TO ALL OF MY NEW YEAR'S CHALLENGERS... Posted to my WW buddies on GOAD - December 2003 Great job, guys!! We have lots of LOSERS this week!! Awesome! This is just great!!! I love being a part of such a successful & supportive bunch!! & if you weren't a loser this week, I'm proud of you, too!! :o) I know this is a really rough time of year to be trying to lose weight, for all of us.... just hold on tight you guys! Just do your best & don't give up... EVER!! Don't hold yourself so tight that you lose it because you're feeling so deprived. Give yourself permission to have some fun & just remember that everyone here is pulling for you!! Know that this challenge just gives us something to focus on right now. None of us know how our bodies are going to react... how quickly we're going to lose weight, no matter how great we are OP, right? I know for a fact that I can't pull off an 8.7 lb loss in a month...that's just plain crazy!! Of course, you never know, right? :o) I'm not taking my eye off making it to ONDERLAND, period! I just know that if I weren't doing this challenge w/ all of you, that I might not give it my all this month... maybe I would've just been happy to settle for maintaining. But NOOOOOOOO, I'm going to kick a little bootie this month ...make some good decisions, but not expect myself to be perfect, either. So... what do we do that we know works???? We gotta JOURNAL, EVERYTHING!! Leaving stuff out isn't going to fool even you... you're just hurting yourself, right? Journaling is KEY to our success... don't even think for a second that it's not. WATER, water, water, water!! (you're shooting for super light pee you guys!! LOL!!) Basics.... Milk, Fruits & Veggies, protein & yes, even added fat (2-4 points per day). Exercise...get your body moving. Do something... at least every other day… even if it's just a quick 15 minute walk around the building @ work. AND... at the end of each day, write down something that you did that day that you are proud of. This life truly is driven by how you think of things... give yourself a positive outlook... remember how great it feels when things are going your way. MAKE them go your way... it's all up to you, right? You are in charge. Don't wait for something to come your way... it doesn’t happen like that. Go for it... you have no other option. AND… give yourself the chance to see yourself as a success! You CAN do this!! Maybe you’ve never believed that of yourself. Maybe you’re like me… always giving up, eventually. Well… I’m not giving up anymore… I DO see that I can be successful at this lifestyle! I look around at this awesome support network that we have here & see all of the amazing success stories, each & every day. This is amazing, don’t you think? How can I NOT think I’m going to be successful?? I no longer have to JUST go to a weekly meeting in hopes of getting a little bit of motivation or encouragement… I have you guys to help me keep going each day. We are so darned lucky… I know I don’t have to tell you that… it’s so obvious. Okay…I’m done. LOL!! You didn’t just skim the page now, did you? There will be a test! :o) I'm going to leave you w/ a little something I HAD to write down from Dr. Phil last week... This is not going to be a success only journey! If you teach a baby to walk & he takes a few steps & falls down, You’re not going to kick him & say "Get up you dumb baby!" What you do is you dust him off, you pat him & you say "We’re going to do this again tomorrow", right? :o) xoxo....Julie Your GoaD New Year's Cruise Director :o) PREVIOUS RAMBLE - RAMBLINGS PAGE - NEXT RAMBLE JOURNAL ARCHIVES - MAIN PAGE - WEIGHT CHART MINI-GOALS