Reality Check

I love the online community. There are some great blogs out there from some wicked creative and entertaining people. I tend to flip back & forth between clothing blogs and weight loss/fitness blogs. Both have in different ways help to inspire me in my own life.

Recently I came upon one by Jen called Prior Fat Girl who worked her way to losing about 90 lbs and not only looks fantastic, but is great at motivating both herself and others to get healthy and push through the tough times.

Today she talked about how people ask her to tell them what she ate to be able to copy her success, but instead she stated a fact that we all know, but none of us really pay attention to...we know what to do to lose weight. We know that we have to eat healthy balanced diets and exercise, but it's getting ourselves to actually do it. She says "What you are doing right now is not working. The only way to get a different result is to change" And she's 100% right. You can read more here.

It was one of those reality checks for me-something to help me say--stop whining and just DO something about it.

For those of us who have been on our weight loss journeys and have started making those changes, it's getting through the tough stumbling blocks of our willpower, our cravings, and the loads of temptations out there. But we're doing this to change. We're doing this to get healthy. To make positive changes in our life that will help us LIVE long fruitful lives rather than being plagued by health issues of all sorts.

And even if we're doing it to just look good in that bikini, we've got that reason to change, it's just a matter of owning up to it. Owning up to the fact that we've come so far and we can't look back, only forward. If we stumble, if we fall, we come to terms with our mistake and move on. We have the tools, we have the strength, we just need to push ourselves to do it.

So thanks Jen for the bit of inspiration today :)

Until next time