Shelli Belly

I had a great day yesterday.  My food and exercise choices were right on target. I felt proud.  It’s such a great feeling to be disciplined in the areas for which you’re struggling.  It was also an actual triumphant moment to log my calories consumed and download my calories burned into my bodybugg program.  When you watch the Biggest Loser you’ll hear the contestants speak of their “target burn” well they’re logging their information into their own bodybuggs.  I’m a gadget girl so I love to see tables, charts and graphs.  The boddybugg website has an abundance of charts such as your nutritional intake,  your nutrients for each meal and even the hours each calorie was burned during the day.  Give me a good pie chart or graph and I’m on cloud nine. So not only did I feel the pride reminiscing about the day I could actually see my progress revealed in the charts.

I’m learning more every day.

bodybugg

            I have often heard the advertisements explaining how the next diet craze will curve your hunger.  Well folks I DON’T GET HUNGRY!  Not all obese people eat because they are hungry. If I got to this weight because I was hungry well then…

• I would have food or traces of food hidden away all throughout the house, my car, my classroom and even under my big comfy chair.
• I would eat large portions of food privately and small portions in public.
• I would be thinking of my next meal before I had finished the meal I was eating. 
• I would have happy thoughts throughout the day just knowing that there was ice cream in my frig. 

Wait a second those statements are true but for me it’s not about being hungry it’s about??????

Hmmmm????       “My inner child that just might need a spanking.”  I couldn’t resist. When I read  See Sara Shrink‘s posting I just had to laugh because it summed up how I feel.

I’m spoiled!  I want what I want and I want it now.  It’s how I got into debt and it’s how I ate and ate until I reached 367 pounds. 

The tantrums need to stop!

What have you done to honor those who have given their every tomorrow for your today?

This is the question that I asked of my students today.  It really made them think about the opportunities that are in our everyday life.  Are you taking advantage of this gift that the Lord has given you?  You’re here therefore there is work still to be done.  So get busy living and in so doing you honor those who have given so much.

Thank you Veterans!

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 – 1918)

Hi I’m back.   To make up for my absence I posted picutres.

         Ok so I’ve been away for a long time. Yes, alright a really long time.  I’m calling those days “THE LOST DAYS.” I’m going to analyze those days in the postings to come.

BUT NOT TODAY!

So did you hear him?

            Last week during the Biggest Loser I couldn’t help but role my eyes a number of times.  The comment by Robert P. Casey Jr. United States Senator for Pennsylvania really got my blood boiling.  In reference to the contestants and how they were role models and a symbol of hope for the nation he stated that we Americans needed this inspiration because we are “living through a time of real darkness.”
            YES, a giant YES I need their inspiration!   The contestants are fabulous role models.    They are working hard and chasing a goal.    They are examples of what is possible.  They are turning their lives around and putting in their time and effort for a final result. But good grief!    
    
“A time of real darkness” please give me a break.      
  
            Oh woe is me. I have to live in the land of opportunity. Oh woe is me.  Are you kidding me?    Fortunately, I’m not depressed about the state of my country.     Am I concerned?   You better believe it.     But I know what makes America truly great and it’s not our government or our politicians.
            It’s Americans who keep on keeping on.  It’s Americans who work hard, play harder and care for one another.    It’s our finest hour when Americans stand together united.    It’s our finest hour when Americans stick by their individual choices and convictions.    It’s our finest hour when privately but collectively we turn to our neighbors for a hand up and not our government for a hand out. 

So what does this have to do with a weight loss blog? 

            Well this one statement and a whole lot of prayer motivated me to get on with the program.  It is so easy to loose sight when you focus on the length of the road you have to travel.    When that focus is skewed and the “Woe is me” Eeyore effect visits it is too easy to loose sight of what makes you great.    All the choices and connections with friends, coworkers and family is truly your finest part about this life.  The choice to adjust your life style daily will assure health along the way.  That’s what I want health.    So Mr. Casey I choose not to focus on the “darkness” that is my situation regarding the amount of weight I have to loose but the possibilities of health to come.  I choose not to focus on the “darkness” of the long road but on the hope that is to come day by day and choice by choice.

It’s what we do!