Round 2

This is a little better! Didn't take me as long to post another update this time!! LOL!

The ladies in my office at work and I have decided to do a little competition of our own. Everyone will put in $15 into a hat. The competition starts today and ends on August 20th, 2012. We will do weekly weigh in's. And the person who loses the most pounds by the last day will win all the money in the hat. Then, we'll put money in again and go for another month! :D

Extra cash?!?!? That's enough competition for me!

So, what's my plan?!

I've discovered these really great juices...made by Bolthouse Farms. They are 100% real and natural...basically, someone has done all the juicing for me and put it in a bottle! Seriously! Plus they've been enhanced with certain vitamins...but there are no big long words you can't pronounce. It seriously is just fruits and veggies juiced and packaged. I LOVE THAT!!!!!!! All the benefits without any of the clean up!!! HELLZ YEAH!!!!

Anyway, I'm going to basically be juicing again, except I'll be making the juice into a smoothie by just adding ice and blending it all up. Nothing else added outside of the juice and ice. 

One thing I really worried about with juicing was that I'd lose the weight, then when I stopped juicing I'd gain it all back. Well, I've been off juicing for more than a month now, and while I've not lost anything more really, I haven't gained any of it back. As a matter of fact, I believe a large reason I haven't lost is because of muscle gain. I can tell major differences in parts of my body that will testify to that. 

It all comes down to eating right and moving! Really...it's not hard. But if you're like me,...or like I was, you sort of roll your eyes when someone says "all you have to do to lose weight or feel better is eat right and exercise." You use excuse after excuse as to why you've not been able to lose weight, or why you've lost weight then gained it back (and then some). But that's all those things are...excuses. And frankly speaking, you just don't value yourself enough to make yourself worth the hard work.

I speak from experience.

I'm the world's greatest expert on 'How to Devalue Yourself'...but I'm giving up that title. It's pointless and unmotivating and DUMB! Don't be like I was...there are people in your world that LOVE you and want you around for as long as possible. Don't rob them of yourself just because you can't do without that triple cheeseburger or king size snickers or supersized soda. Do you see what I mean? Food isn't of value here...YOU ARE! I am. 

Besides, maybe once you get moving you'll stop thinking of it as exercise and start seeing it as fun. I've started going to the water aerobics classes at the Wellness Center and I love them! They're FUN for me and I'm getting one hell of a workout! I also still do the elliptical and weight machines as well, because that's even fun for me. 

My body has sort of turned into a science experiment of sorts. I know the things I've done, and I've seen results from it...how far can I push my body? How many changes can I affect? How much can I do? 

Bottom line is, I (and you) am never going to be happy with anything in my life until I (and you) can find happiness within ourselves. But I'm never going to get there if I don't stop sabotaging myself by eating the wrong things and not being active. I've come a long way since I began on February 28th this year, and I have a ways to go...but I WILL get there. Mark my words. I will make it to my goal. I will be stronger and better and happier and healthier than I've ever been...and it'll be because I valued myself enough to put in the hard work.

Till next time...
-M-