30th October
2013
Alice: “this is
impossible” The Mad Hatter “Only if you believe it is!”
My first day back at
work yesterday and it was fabulous, I do love my meetings, my members are
awesome – all of them and it was great to be back there with them enjoying
their smiles at the scales, even those that hadn’t lost were smiling because
they’d mostly enjoyed the ‘not losing’ part.
I was reminded of how fantastic my members are doing on their weight
loss journey’s, another 136lb added to their total weight loss, the wonderful
Jane received her 8 stone weight loss award last night, she’s doing amazingly
well and I can tell she’s made lifelong changes that will ensure it doesn’t go
back on. Emily is 1lb from her goal
weight having lost just over 5 stone and Louisa also achieved her 5 stone award
yesterday - just inspiring all of them. Of course it isn’t just the big losers who
are awesome, it’s all of my members because everybody’s journey is individual
to them, two ladies spring to mind Julie and Vicky, both joined me having tried
before but never keeping the weight off, however this time they know if they
want the weight to stay away, the changes they make have to be for life, they
both attended all through the kids six weeks holidays knowing they were just
doing their best to maintain the weight they’d already lost as they were doing
too many things with the kids to focus on weight loss in the holidays, however
know in the run up to Christmas they’re both refocused and losing again. These are just a snapshot of the fantastic
members I have and there are many more, all of which I’m extremely proud of!
So how did I do at the scales
on my return, well I weighed in the Tuesday before I had my operation and in the
two weeks since then I’ve lost 1.5lb, that’ll motivate me to lose a bit more
before Christmas, I have 7 more weigh-ins before them!
I decided Monday to try
Filling and Healthy and I posted on Facebook in a group, “Right in typical Monday style - I need to get on this! 8 weigh in's till
Christmas, I want to do F&H from now to then 100% get on my case ladies!”
The first response I got from the amazing Alison
was, “What have you got planned Beverley? X”
I remember sitting there thing “Oh, plan – mmm I haven’t!” So I waffled
some reply about not really being good at planning, but that I only had F&H
foods in my fridge, blah blah blah”
It then made me stop and think and realise, if you fail to plan – you plan
to fail, what was I expecting to happen, magic F&H meals to appear and make
my fat disappear! Well that wasn’t gonna
happen was it, okay I may only have F&H foods in the kitchen but let’s be
honest with myself, if that’s the case and I don’t think about it, then I come
in hungry and nothings planned or ready am I going to stand in the kitchen
thinking, “what shall I cook, what would I enjoy”, hell no I’m not, I’m going
to grab the Weight Watcher loaf of bread and make a ham sandwich – yeah that
might be filling and healthy but is it going to satisfy me emotionally not just
physically – I can confirm the answers a bit fat NO!
I took on board what she
said and I sat and planned the next few days, it’s not Wednesday and this
morning before I leave the house I’m going to plan the next few days again, I
have lunch planned already, leftover curry as I had my beef stew yesterday for
lunch and tea.
I’ve also been noticing
the last few weeks people saying stuff like, “I just can’t do it”, “I’m
hopeless at this weight loss, I always fail”, “I get to a certain weight and I
just can’t lose anymore” or similar, they’re dangerous thought patterns, you
can turn them into self-fulfilling prophecies!
WHAT you may be thinking, yeah I remember the first time I heard it too,
I was like a what prophecy, so here’s the explanation; The self-fulfilling prophecy is a statement that
alters actions and therefore comes true. For example, a person stating “I’m
probably going to have a lousy day,” might alter his actions so that such a
prediction is fulfilled by his actions. This may be an unconscious gesture. A
person who might espouse a self-fulfilling prophecy in a positive way “I’m
going to have a great day.” might act in ways that will actually make this
prediction true.
You get it now, if you didn’t
before?
Remember what you think is
just as powerful as what you eat!
If you expect to fail you
probably will, however if you believe you will succeed, then watch this space…..
On that note, have an amazing
day, eat gorgeous, BeYOUtiful because as always you are so worth the effort.
xx
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