Dream as if you'll live
forever, live as if you'll die today. James
Dean
I’m very much looking to my weekend, and because I won’t be drinking I’m not remotely worried about staying on track, it should be pretty easy.
After a query on facebook last night about ProPoints, I’d
just like to remind you that if something looks or sounds too good to be true,
it usually is. So if you’re not sure
always ask, that’s what I’m here for.
And if you’re sat at home reading the blog, looking on our facebook page
but not attending a meeting, remember you’re missing out on the part of the
plan that truly matters. Weight Watchers
works because of the group support – you don’t have to take my word for it, ask
my members who lost 564lb this week and have lost 373 STONE so far this year, 2
more of which achieved their goal yesterday making that 16 so far this year to
add to the 135 from last year. Yep
Weight Watchers works because of the group support and I love it.
In the meeting this week we’ve talked about blocks, it was
interesting and if you recall the rules of life I blogged about earlier in the
week, rule number 3 was “there are no mistakes, only lessons”. With weight loss especially, we all know it
isn’t a particularly easy journey and different times in our lives bring with them
different challenges. A lot of members
feel great disappointment and anger when their plans don’t give the results
they hoped for and the first reaction for most is to feel that they have
failed. And whilst it is easy to jump to
this depressing conclusion, it will impede your ability to progress with your
weight loss journey.
Wouldn’t it be more useful to decide that rather than view
your slip up as a failure you can view it as an opportunity to learn. Every time you don’t live up to your own
expectations is an opportunity to learn something important about your own
thoughts and behaviours. This thought
pattern can be used for other things besides your weight loss, notice the next
time you feel ‘wronged’ by another person, use it as a chance to learn
something about your reaction. Whether
it’s your own wrongdoing or someone else’s, a mistake is simply an opportunity
to evolve further along your path.
Just think for a second how much different you would feel emotionally
if instead of seeing the disappointments, hurts, losses, illnesses, tragedies
in your life as hardships you decided to shift your perception and see them as
opportunities to learn and grow. It
would make you feel empowered, you would be taking charge of your life and
rising to those challenges instead of feeling defeated, victimised or cast
adrift. I heard a wonderful story
yesterday from a member about her sisters positivity, the lady told me how her
sister has had cancer three times now, and three times she’s had to have
something removed, mastectomy etc. The
lady told me how her sister and her husband were at the bank filling in
insurance forms and she asked the bank manager, “When he dies do I have to
spend this insurance on his funeral”, the manager a little taken aback replied,
“erm, no I suppose you don’t, we give you the money and you do with it what you
think best”, she then exclaimed, “Excellent, I’ll take you to the crem in a
cardboard box in the back of your van, and I’m off on holiday”. The bank manager a little shocked stated, “you
seem quite certain, you’re going to outlive your husband” and her fabulous reply
was, “Oh yes I am, god’s taking me a bit at a time so it’s going to take a
while, he’ll take him all at once”. You’ve
got to love that positive spirit and the fact that three different trips to the
hospital with cancer has left her fighting not crying. And
luckily her husband has an excellent sense of humour!
So let’s make today, positive Friday, heck why not stretch
it to the whole of the weekend, and for as long as you can keep it going.
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