Exercise

Well my goal last week was to fit 1 hour of exercise in each day for a full week, which I did and as much as I would like to say,"Hey I did not feel any difference." I actually did. I am trying my hardest to keep it up and keep going. It is Monday though and I am feeling the sluggish effects of starting another week. I did find though that I rationalized bad eating because I was working out. So dang sad I know. Example: Saturday we walked for an hour, Scott went down and fed the horses so I thought I will get on the bike and ride for 20 minutes so I did and then called him and asked him to stop at this great Chinese place on his way home. To justify it to myself I exercised a total of 40 minutes on the bike and walked for 1 hour. Five bites of that fried food and it was all in vein. Darn it!

So my goal this week is to watch better what I eat, exercise and do the happy self talk. I have a friend I have know since High School. Darling, cute shape ,funny the whole package. I went to college with her also and we just recently reconnected on Facebook. She still looks fabulous as ever, she runs a boot camp for people that are working on loosing weight. I asked her for some advice and sent a lengthy message to her not realizing some of the negative talk I was typing about myself. She sent the best message back not long but very enlightening to me, so I thought I would share it with you and you can try it with me. She told me to stop the bad talk about myself. Stop saying I am fat...old and that I am struggling. She told me to look in the mirror each day and tell myself that "I am HOT" she told me that we say it, we become it and then we stay it because we have become exactly what we have told ourselves. It is so true I remember weighing 125lbs and saying I thought I was fat....CRAZY!!!!!

So now I have been working on telling myself that I love me...I am loosing weight....and I am in control of my appetite. Does it work? Maybe I have lost 5 lbs since I have been doing that and also exercising. The power of your mind....great stuff. Keeping up the positive talk is hard I will not lie. I figure though I have been talking negative to myself for a very long time I will need to do the same with the positive talk. Give it a try and good luck.