Let The Vacation Begin

Tomorrow our eleven week vacation begins.....who knows when I will have the opportunity to blog again. Now I am going to need to be very focused in order to keep OP while I am on vacation. I always have a difficult time on days off. What am I going to do for eleven weeks!!

So I need coping strategies. Here is one thing I am going to do.
I am writing sayings on a note card to keep in my wallet to refer to when I need to. Actually I thing I will make two copies so I can keep one handy in the car. I always have problems on long car trips and the next four days is going to be one LONG car trip. So here is my list:

1. Persistence not perfection!

2. I am a good person and I deserve to be happy, healthy, thin, and rich!
(Quote by MaryGrace)

3. I think I can, I think I can....the little red engine.

4. If it is to be it is up to me.

5. Be strong

6. Be focused

7. Be determined

8. Succeed

9. I CAN do this.

10. I WANT to do this.

11. Don't trade what you want at the moment for what you want the
most. (HEALTH)

I really need to keep these points in mind because I am 56 years old and I want to be as healthy and productive as I can for as long as I can. This process will never be easy, I just have to want it bad enough to "pay the price".

I also will keep journaling my food. Everything I read everywhere says in order to be successful at this, journaling is crucial.

As usual Mary it is up to you....do you want it BAD enough? Be good to yourself and love yourself. You deserve to be happy!

Day Three of ??

This is my third day of being OP....been here before right?? Anyway I am keeping in mind the "sixty days to create a habit" article I read. I also need to be very careful the next six weeks while we are on vacation. Persistance, not perfection is also a good phrase to keep in mind.

Oh I weighed in at 185.4 yesterday, that is up .4 from last Saturday. Based on the week I had.....I was happy.

As usual...be focused...be determined..succeed!!

Sixty Days

I recently read a blog by Prevention's Chris Freitag about habits. According to her, it takes 60 days to form a habit. For some reason I always thought it was 3 weeks to develop a habit. Anyway....I got to 49 days in a row and screwed it up by not hanging in there another 11 days. Sounds like my luck.

My 10,000 steps a day goal didn't go very well either. I only had 2 days over 10,000 both of them were over 12,000, the other days I got about 7 to 8,000. It is just too busy now while we are trying to get ready to leave.

Now on the food front...that isn't going very well either but I bounced back OP starting today. This is just so hard!

Don't I have ANY good news???? Guess not.

When I blog tomorrow, it will be better...