What Motivated YOU To Start Your Weight Loss Blog?

It’s not easy to get the motivation to lose weight but then to actually put together a PUBLIC blog displaying your private battle is super duper hard.

For myself, I found it amazingly motivating once I had the blog up and going.

What was it that finally motivated you  to not only lose weight but to start your blog about it?

Summer 15 Tracking Update #8

This is a wrap up on Weight Loss Reports posted last week!

And the results are….

Note for Trackers:

Please Make Your Weight Loss or Gain Numbers Super Obvious In Your Blog Post (Don’t make us do math or watch videos to find out… it takes sooo much time!)

Remember, even if you don’t gain or lose we need to see a report post!

If we visit your blog and find no report more than twice during the challenge, we’ll drop you from the list and that bum us out for sure!

YOU Inspire ME & Many Others Too!

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The 3 of you inspire me.

Week after week you post your weight and have never missed a beat since you started this journey.

I applaud you! We all applaud you – Keep on going, you’re almost at the Finish Line!

For fun here is a Video that Shannon did for the Biggest Loser.

Great job Shannon!

My Liver Hurts: Which Body Part Are You Hurting?

The doctor told me quite some time ago (probably around 6 months) that my liver came  back with high numbers and that I have  fat deposits inside of it.

I had my gall bladder removed and when that happens your body makes less  bile which makes is so much harder for your liver to filter out the  fat.

The only remedy – to lose weight.

End of story.

Which body part are YOU hurting?

Summer 15 Tracking Update #7

This is a wrap up on Weight Loss Reports posted last week!

And the results are….

Note for Trackers:

Please Make Your Weight Loss or Gain Numbers Super Obvious In Your Blog Post (Don’t make us do math or watch videos to find out… it takes sooo much time!)

Remember, even if you don’t gain or lose we need to see a report post!

If we visit your blog and find no report more than twice during the challenge, we’ll drop you from the list and that bum us out for sure!

Recognizing Sadness: My Trip To The Beach

My husband and I went with our youngest to the beach the other day. It all started out great, I was going to get some more exercise and take some great pictures with my daughter. I also wanted to get some single shots of myself not only for the blog here but it’s easier for me to see what I actually look like in the moment. It’s funny how a picture  really shows you. It started out by asking my husband to take a nice picture of me here at the beach, I love the beach and we often visit.

This picture was when I was motivated about our walk.

Then I literally looked at that picture above and started feeling sad and hubby took this shot.

I guess he decided to do a close up this time and you can see I truly am sad at this point.

I was so very sad that after this shot tears just started to roll down my cheeks.  I’m feeling emotion because of what  look like on the outside is really not how I feel on the inside. Also, I recognize that this isn’t me, it’s just a reflection of my life of the last few years.

I’m an emotional eater and I’m refusing to allow myself to eat emotionally any longer so I’m learning how to recognize it and deal with it.

How do you deal with such sadness of who you are now VS. who you want to be?

Voice Memo – Do You Give Yourself Permission To Mess Up?

I was just going to use this as a note for myself but then thought it’s an easy way to get out my thoughts about this whole weight loss journey and also share with you. I was literally driving home from the gym so you’ll hear pauses because of things I had going on with the road.

But I’m trying to unravel my weight loss “brain” and realize that it’s OK to mess up. We don’t have to give up if we mess up.