Hi everyone! I've been thinking about why this time is going to be different for me. Yesterday I was looking up quotes to put in my belly dance newsletter and I turned to one of my favorite motivators, Tony Robbins, and came across the one I have used as a title for today's blog.
I spend a lot of time in various weight loss chat rooms, and people always come in lamenting "I want to lose weight," "I'm ready to lose weight," "I really do mean it," etc. After listening for a while I usually always come to the conclusion that, although I don't doubt they really really want it and they are really really ready, that wishing does not make it so. Their words aren't followed by action. There is one "chatter" who comes in each time saying: "I hate vegetables and I won't eat anything but cucumbers and lettuce. I want to eat whatever I want, I don't care about nutrition. Why haven't I lost weight after 5 days - I'm giving this a week then I'm not following WW anymore. And, by the way, I don't want to spend money on a meeting to find out what it is all about - I want you all just to tell me." Is there really any truth to the very first statement, "I'm ready to lose weight"... hmmm?
I'm not picking on just this one person, but she is a stellar example of inertia trumping action, even though the desire might be there. And it's a perfect example of the fact that a REAL decision has NOT been made. The reason I am not really picking on her (but rather using her for an example) is that not only do I see my old self in her, but I understand being in the stage of thinking that wishing and desiring is enough to bring about action. Thinking about it is not enough - you must take action. Thoughts not followed by action really isn't action.
I also get frustrated when people say they need motivation. No you don't. Well, not in the way most people define motivation. My definition of motivation is just the realization that I must keep on keeping on, and that success will follow - it HAS to. I think what people need is faith. Faith that if you keep eating and exercising that it will pay off. Knowing that it will - isn't that motivation enough? I think that people have just lost sight of the payoff. Is it to provide a good example to your children and provide them with the healthiest upbringing you can give them? Is it to turn around blood test scores? Is it to get weight off your knees and hips? Is it to not be afraid of the camera anymore? Is it just because you are sick and tired of being sick and tired? It's not motivation you need, it's a direct sight-line to the payoff that you need.
When the payoff doesn't matter anymore, it's not motivation that you have to look for. It's a investigation into your secondary gain list. What is a secondary gain list? BE HONEST. I know I've had to be honest with myself. I thought about it - really REALLY thought about it: Look how much time dieting takes up in my life. I chat, I blog, I read diet and self-help books, I spend time looking for new recipes, shopping, cooking, complaining about aches and pains and how I'm sick of dieting. My secondary gain in this case is that I can continue with business as usual instead of actually doing other things with my time.
In my professional arena of being a dancer, I can always hide behind my fat instead of admitting that maybe I don't want to take a job, or go out at night, or be in a photo shoot, etc. etc. Maybe I can hide behind my fat instead of putting myself out there - where I really would be judged and gossiped about. My secondary gain is that I can hide behind my fat and blame it for EVERYTHING.
Would I really know who I am if I didn't have fat to get rid of? What would my life be like if I was a normal weight? That's sort of scary and another secondary gain. I've been overweight MY ENTIRE LIFE. Who would I be without it? The secondary gain: By staying fat, I can continue to do all things familiar; I can continue to be all things familiar; I can stay in a body that, with all its aches and pains is still comfortable enough to tolerate because it's familiar. My secondary gain is to use my fat to stay comfortable and familiar. I could go on and on, but in case you didn't understand the concept of secondary gain, I hope you do now. What is YOUR secondary gain in staying fat and coming up with all the excuses NOT to lose weight (even though you THINK you want to).
It's not that I don't have motivation or think it's unnecessary - I just think it's overrated! I think it's more important to explore our secondary gains which keep us from clearly seeing the payoffs and it's more important to have faith that if we follow the road the end will be there. But really - it's never an end, is it, and I think that is what scares us. Do we take the left fork or the right fork, or do we just run into the meadow that is ahead and trust that the sunshine and the flowers will make us happier than what we have grown to be comfortable with in our present bodies?
For many, unfortunately, it's not a sunny meadow. It's just coming to the end of that road and jumping into expressway traffic (come on, raise your hands, how many are scared to drive on 10 lane expressways). It's coming to the of that road and finding yourself in TOTALLY unfamiliar territory without a GPS to navigate you home (come on, raise your hands, how many hate to get lost?) - you get the point. But... maybe there really IS a meadow - you'll never know until you do get to the end of that road. Forget the motivation... even forget the faith. Just clear all that secondary gain stuff off the path and see where you DO go. Maybe the road itself is where you'll stay - it just will be a lot more pleasant without all that clutter, won't it???
Samida
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
CORE and NSVs
Hi! First of all - thank you for all your kind comments (to me personally, but not published to the blog page) regarding my first post. I think one of my DWLZ friends said to me that this should be something I do for myself, and if anyone else reads it and finds it funny, uplifting or informative, so much the better. From the responses I have gotten, I think I rounded all the bases, so I'm very pleased I took the blog plunge. In order not to get blog burn-out I will try to post maybe every other day, so you can look for new entries "sort of" on that schedule.
Well - I have had three full days on CORE. It's funny what upping your protein and diminishing your processed foods can do for you. I am hardly ever hungry, and when I am, the choices are easy. I had forgotten how much I liked this program, so I am grateful I still have all the materials to do it. It will also be helpful when my son comes home in a few days, because we can just have loads of fruit, cut-up veggies, and grilled seafood, chicken and steaks. He also loves things like beans, lentils, whole grains, etc. - so it will be easy to make some nice side dishes. (When he was home last summer I switched from CORE to FLEX thinking that would help, but it didn't.)
Do ya'll know what NSVs are? They are Non-Scale Victories, and can be as powerful (or more so) than any scale victory. These past few days have been very stressful, and so my NSVs have been to NOT turn to food (not even CORE foods) when stressed. One of my favorite quotes is "If it's not hunger, food won't fix it." I have to tell you this is where CORE has been more helpful to me than the flex program. If I was stressed then I would look at how many points I had left for the day (since my stress eating is mostly at night when my defenses are down and I have dissolved into a puddle) - can I have ice cream? chips? left-over dinner? crackers? cereal? candy? How may flex points do I have left? With CORE, I say - hmm... will this hard boiled egg really make me feel better? Answer: Not in the way chocolate would! (Or the way I think it would.) Granted, I have the 35 points anyway with CORE, but they are more valuable. By the time I put cream in my coffee and sprinkle walnuts on my salad all 35 are accounted for. Granted, tearing into left over chicken or salad is CORE, but will that really solve anything or even make me feel better?
I guess that's why I find CORE actually easier. CORE food doesn't seem to be loaded with the emotions the way that cookies, candy, cake, bread, etc. are. I often said that I would binge on a head of lettuce if that was all there was. But truthfully - it's only a vehicle for the dressing - so if I don't have the dressing why would I eat the lettuce??? (I have a salad daily and so I really do love the stuff, but put into perspective, it's not something I would binge on.)
I remember when my daughter was a little girl she was crying about something (a broken heart or a skinned knee - I don't remember now) and I offered her a cookie. And she looked at me with such a weird expression. WHY would she want a cookie? I can't remember where I read the story, but another mother had a similar experience. Her daughter skinned her knee and the mother said - "Here, take this cookie" (to stop the crying) and the little girl took the cookie and put it on her knee. HMMM... when do we make the change from the little girl who puts a cookie onto a skinned knee to the big girl who stuffs her face with them over the same skinned knee? I am so incredibly grateful that I raised two children who would be the type to put the cookie on the skinned knee!
I'm a Tony Robbins fan and one thing he encourages people to do is to find FUN ways to approach challenging projects and situations. As I said in my first blog, this does not have to be all work and seriousness (approaching food only as fuel), so fun is the way I am approaching CORE this time. First of all, I may be one of the few, but I LOVE grocery shopping (I like any kind of shopping, but grocery shopping is my favorite!). I found a beautiful farmers-market type basket (example) that I had once bought and when I went to the market the other day, and instead of using one of their ugly plastic baskets, I brought my own to the store and pretended I was shopping at an outdoor market in Paris! Then I picked out a couple of nice recipes using ingredients that I didn't even have in the house, and made them. For lunch at work I packed a picnic basket instead of throwing stuff in a used plastic shopping bag for transport. I also "set" my desk - clearing off all my work and putting down a placemat and eating from dishes not containers. Okay okay - it's only the first week... how long will this last? Even if only for another week, I've shown myself that I don't have to just slosh fuel around! lol
I put a sign up with the date I think the Disney Princess Half-Marathon will be in 2011 (probably March 6th, if it's the same weekend as the 2010 marathon). I am so sorry that I won't be doing the 2010 one, but I am not ready to walk that many miles at the required pace, and besides I'm going to Disney this coming December to meet up with a wonderful group of DWLZ zonies! Talk about having fun while you are losing weight :) Going in December AND the following March is just a little too decadent - even if I could afford it!
Nothing to do with weight loss - but I am getting ready to send out my August belly dance newsletter. If anyone here is interested in receiving it please send me your email address (to amirajamal - at - yahoo - dot - com) and I will be happy to put your name on the list. You might not be a belly dancer but it might be nice to connect!
Have a great day, and I wish you all many NSVs!
Samida
Well - I have had three full days on CORE. It's funny what upping your protein and diminishing your processed foods can do for you. I am hardly ever hungry, and when I am, the choices are easy. I had forgotten how much I liked this program, so I am grateful I still have all the materials to do it. It will also be helpful when my son comes home in a few days, because we can just have loads of fruit, cut-up veggies, and grilled seafood, chicken and steaks. He also loves things like beans, lentils, whole grains, etc. - so it will be easy to make some nice side dishes. (When he was home last summer I switched from CORE to FLEX thinking that would help, but it didn't.)
Do ya'll know what NSVs are? They are Non-Scale Victories, and can be as powerful (or more so) than any scale victory. These past few days have been very stressful, and so my NSVs have been to NOT turn to food (not even CORE foods) when stressed. One of my favorite quotes is "If it's not hunger, food won't fix it." I have to tell you this is where CORE has been more helpful to me than the flex program. If I was stressed then I would look at how many points I had left for the day (since my stress eating is mostly at night when my defenses are down and I have dissolved into a puddle) - can I have ice cream? chips? left-over dinner? crackers? cereal? candy? How may flex points do I have left? With CORE, I say - hmm... will this hard boiled egg really make me feel better? Answer: Not in the way chocolate would! (Or the way I think it would.) Granted, I have the 35 points anyway with CORE, but they are more valuable. By the time I put cream in my coffee and sprinkle walnuts on my salad all 35 are accounted for. Granted, tearing into left over chicken or salad is CORE, but will that really solve anything or even make me feel better?
I guess that's why I find CORE actually easier. CORE food doesn't seem to be loaded with the emotions the way that cookies, candy, cake, bread, etc. are. I often said that I would binge on a head of lettuce if that was all there was. But truthfully - it's only a vehicle for the dressing - so if I don't have the dressing why would I eat the lettuce??? (I have a salad daily and so I really do love the stuff, but put into perspective, it's not something I would binge on.)
I remember when my daughter was a little girl she was crying about something (a broken heart or a skinned knee - I don't remember now) and I offered her a cookie. And she looked at me with such a weird expression. WHY would she want a cookie? I can't remember where I read the story, but another mother had a similar experience. Her daughter skinned her knee and the mother said - "Here, take this cookie" (to stop the crying) and the little girl took the cookie and put it on her knee. HMMM... when do we make the change from the little girl who puts a cookie onto a skinned knee to the big girl who stuffs her face with them over the same skinned knee? I am so incredibly grateful that I raised two children who would be the type to put the cookie on the skinned knee!
I'm a Tony Robbins fan and one thing he encourages people to do is to find FUN ways to approach challenging projects and situations. As I said in my first blog, this does not have to be all work and seriousness (approaching food only as fuel), so fun is the way I am approaching CORE this time. First of all, I may be one of the few, but I LOVE grocery shopping (I like any kind of shopping, but grocery shopping is my favorite!). I found a beautiful farmers-market type basket (example) that I had once bought and when I went to the market the other day, and instead of using one of their ugly plastic baskets, I brought my own to the store and pretended I was shopping at an outdoor market in Paris! Then I picked out a couple of nice recipes using ingredients that I didn't even have in the house, and made them. For lunch at work I packed a picnic basket instead of throwing stuff in a used plastic shopping bag for transport. I also "set" my desk - clearing off all my work and putting down a placemat and eating from dishes not containers. Okay okay - it's only the first week... how long will this last? Even if only for another week, I've shown myself that I don't have to just slosh fuel around! lol
I put a sign up with the date I think the Disney Princess Half-Marathon will be in 2011 (probably March 6th, if it's the same weekend as the 2010 marathon). I am so sorry that I won't be doing the 2010 one, but I am not ready to walk that many miles at the required pace, and besides I'm going to Disney this coming December to meet up with a wonderful group of DWLZ zonies! Talk about having fun while you are losing weight :) Going in December AND the following March is just a little too decadent - even if I could afford it!
Nothing to do with weight loss - but I am getting ready to send out my August belly dance newsletter. If anyone here is interested in receiving it please send me your email address (to amirajamal - at - yahoo - dot - com) and I will be happy to put your name on the list. You might not be a belly dancer but it might be nice to connect!
Have a great day, and I wish you all many NSVs!
Samida
Monday, July 27, 2009
Long Time Reader, First time Blogger
Hi everyone. After much consultation with friends who do, and do not read blogs, I've decided to take the plunge. After much writing and then deleting, I've decided to stick with whatever comes out this morning. I wear many hats, as I am sure you all do: Mother, wife, employee - but I have two others: belly dance teacher and weight loss junkie. The belly dance teacher is self-explanatory (http://www.amirajamal.com) but what do I mean by weight loss junkie? Well... my mother dropped me off at a Weight Watchers meeting when I was 16 years old, in 1969. I think maybe once she sat in on a meeting with me, but for the most part, I attended on my own, and no changes were ever made to the household (as far as I can remember) - meaning that I had to fend for myself, following those awful old rules, of liver once a week, fish three times a week, no ketchup or mayo - some of you remember those days!
If I had only known then what I know now - that what I weighed then was actually below today's WW goal for my height. Let's not forget - those were the days of Twiggy, mini-skirts, and no "big girl" sized stores or fashions. I grew up always being the fat one, compared to my skinny sister (who, even today at 60 something, boasts an anorexic looking size zero body), and so began the life of low self-esteem and weight problems. My mother, who is 93, and absolute skin and bones, laments how she needs to lose 25 pounds. I'm downright healthy compared to those two! (I didn't mean to harp on all this, but I did promise myself not to delete anything today...)
Anyway - from a child with fat thighs (little did I know then that it wasn't a weight problem - it's what we, in our family, apparently now call "the Finkle thighs" - quite separate from total body weight) to a teenager plunked down in a WW meeting all alone with no family support, to a mother who did indeed believe in eating for two, to a 56 year old woman who's still carrying her baby weight (with her baby just turning 26), here I sit today. Still needing to lose weight, but now, admittedly way over any WW goal of any decade. Sigh............. All the dieting in the world didn't work - just made me fatter....
There are two definitions of "junkie" both of which fit me in the weight loss arena: (1): a person with insatiable craving for something and (2): an enthusiastic follower and devotee. I have tried almost every diet out there (except the most stupid of them) for each decade: Stillman, Atkins, Carbohydrate Addicts, Scarsdale, Beck, Intuitive Eating, South Beach, Perricone, Glycemic Index and Load, Ornish, Eat Drink and Be Healthy (this, by the way, was the smartest diet), Dr. Phil, Bob Greene, Food Pyramid (USDA and Mediterranean), low everything diet (one at a time, of course), etc. etc. To refresh my memory and to have a good laugh I visited http://www.everydiet.org/diets.htm -- perhaps I did NOT try them all! I also have dozens and dozens of self-help and motivational books and tapes... let's not limit ourselves to just diet books!
Yet, everything brings me back to Weight Watchers. However, why am I still doing battle? My daughter is very wise: She says that ANYTHING will work if you stick to it long enough (ahh... you mean four days hasn't matched the criterion for "long enough?") AND she also says that someone has to drop their end of the rope in a tug-of-war and walk away, otherwise no one really wins (the winners, alas, will fall down too). So, here I am today - dropping my end of the rope in the battle - not to give up, but to say: This is not working. Doing battle is not working. Fighting things is not working. Doing something that I cannot live with in the long term is not working. Denying myself and being hungry is not working. Being almost 57 and still shopping at the fat girls shop is not working. Feeling sorry for myself that I grew up with fat thighs and home-made clothes is not working. Never being picked for anything, and hating gym anyway and feeling bad about it, is not working.
There have to be better games than tug-of-war. I can still play and not have to fall in the mud whether I am the winner or the loser. Maybe I can actually NOT fall in the mud at all. Maybe I can just play. I think food can be fun and exciting - but I don't think all my fun and excitement has to come from it. I get the "food is fuel" part - that we should not let food be so emotionally charged, and also that if you drive around on crappy fuel without a full tank to begin with, you will not run at peak performance. But I don't think our experience with food has to be all work and no play. I don't think that just any old junky vehicle to get you from place to place is as good as a new car off the showroom floor. First of all, the repair bills go through the roof, you never know when it will break down, it looks crummy, and you can't feel that good tying your door shut with a bungie cord. AND, if people add up their repair bills and the cost of gas, along with the worry of breakdowns, you really will be spending more per month than if you just get a nice vehicle and maintain it. (No I'm not a car salesman, and neither is my husband - just saying that people think that putting good food in their body and staying healthy is more expensive than eating junk - and it's NOT.)
Okay - enough with the car analogy. But back to my point - I can have fun doing this, eat foods that I love, not go hungry, and socialize as much as I want even if food is involved. How do you ask, is this possible? Well, I looked back at everything and every diet I have ever followed, and I do believe - for me - that the old WW CORE is the way to go. I know about Momentum and Filling Foods, and those of you who are brand new to WW, don't even worry about what you may be missing with CORE - it's basically the same, but with a few tweaks. I've decided to do CORE rather than Filling Foods because, although I have the materials for both, I did follow CORE in the past and so I am comfortable with it's lists, recipes and rules.
But WHY is it going to be different this time? Because I say it is - that's why! I have re-acquainted myself with the message boards at Dottie's Weight Loss Zone: http://www.dwlz2.com/forum/ and the people there are the best support that I have ever had. (That is not to say that I haven't had other support - including my WW leader, Beth, and my husband and both my children - but I'm talking about group support that is constantly available whenever I need it!) We have a group on the forum "We Can!" and with daily postings by myself and my web friends, I can feel the surge of energy to face this every day and know that there are people that are facing it with me and can lend their support and suggestions as I go along. And, since teaching is the best learning, I also garner support for myself by supporting others.
Also - and thanks to Jeanne, a DWLZ supporter who posted: I did it! I am not waiting until I get to goal!!! who signed up to do a half-marathon, I am thinking of doing one myself. Half-marathons seem to be in the air because when I went to visit my most favorite blog by Heather, a WW leader: http://www.leadingtheweigh.com/ she posted that she is doing "Disney Princess 1/2 Marathon Weekend" in March. WELL - that's all I needed to hear! I have been in touch with Disney and you can walk it (as long as you walk within the 16 minute mile) and, as far as I know at this point, it is March 6, 2011. I have extremely bad knees and wear "hardware" braces, but I am going to aim for it! I found a beginner 1/2 marathon training schedule that works in one-week increments. If I do it in one-month increments I will still have plenty of time left over! A 5K (3 miles) just about does me in ... but I've never trained either... so who knows!
Just something clicked over the weekend. I can do this - CORE and train- AND have fun - eating and preparing the fresh foods that I love AND look forward to a goal which takes place at the "happiest place on earth" (ya'll can laugh - but I love WDW!).
Well - there's so much more... but I am going to end here (for now).
Wishing you all a great and FUN weight loss journey!
Samida
p.s. If you visit my site, please note that those were professional photographs with professionally done makeup and hair. I do not look like that in real life!!! I wish I did - but I don't!
If I had only known then what I know now - that what I weighed then was actually below today's WW goal for my height. Let's not forget - those were the days of Twiggy, mini-skirts, and no "big girl" sized stores or fashions. I grew up always being the fat one, compared to my skinny sister (who, even today at 60 something, boasts an anorexic looking size zero body), and so began the life of low self-esteem and weight problems. My mother, who is 93, and absolute skin and bones, laments how she needs to lose 25 pounds. I'm downright healthy compared to those two! (I didn't mean to harp on all this, but I did promise myself not to delete anything today...)
Anyway - from a child with fat thighs (little did I know then that it wasn't a weight problem - it's what we, in our family, apparently now call "the Finkle thighs" - quite separate from total body weight) to a teenager plunked down in a WW meeting all alone with no family support, to a mother who did indeed believe in eating for two, to a 56 year old woman who's still carrying her baby weight (with her baby just turning 26), here I sit today. Still needing to lose weight, but now, admittedly way over any WW goal of any decade. Sigh............. All the dieting in the world didn't work - just made me fatter....
There are two definitions of "junkie" both of which fit me in the weight loss arena: (1): a person with insatiable craving for something and (2): an enthusiastic follower and devotee. I have tried almost every diet out there (except the most stupid of them) for each decade: Stillman, Atkins, Carbohydrate Addicts, Scarsdale, Beck, Intuitive Eating, South Beach, Perricone, Glycemic Index and Load, Ornish, Eat Drink and Be Healthy (this, by the way, was the smartest diet), Dr. Phil, Bob Greene, Food Pyramid (USDA and Mediterranean), low everything diet (one at a time, of course), etc. etc. To refresh my memory and to have a good laugh I visited http://www.everydiet.org/diets.htm -- perhaps I did NOT try them all! I also have dozens and dozens of self-help and motivational books and tapes... let's not limit ourselves to just diet books!
Yet, everything brings me back to Weight Watchers. However, why am I still doing battle? My daughter is very wise: She says that ANYTHING will work if you stick to it long enough (ahh... you mean four days hasn't matched the criterion for "long enough?") AND she also says that someone has to drop their end of the rope in a tug-of-war and walk away, otherwise no one really wins (the winners, alas, will fall down too). So, here I am today - dropping my end of the rope in the battle - not to give up, but to say: This is not working. Doing battle is not working. Fighting things is not working. Doing something that I cannot live with in the long term is not working. Denying myself and being hungry is not working. Being almost 57 and still shopping at the fat girls shop is not working. Feeling sorry for myself that I grew up with fat thighs and home-made clothes is not working. Never being picked for anything, and hating gym anyway and feeling bad about it, is not working.
There have to be better games than tug-of-war. I can still play and not have to fall in the mud whether I am the winner or the loser. Maybe I can actually NOT fall in the mud at all. Maybe I can just play. I think food can be fun and exciting - but I don't think all my fun and excitement has to come from it. I get the "food is fuel" part - that we should not let food be so emotionally charged, and also that if you drive around on crappy fuel without a full tank to begin with, you will not run at peak performance. But I don't think our experience with food has to be all work and no play. I don't think that just any old junky vehicle to get you from place to place is as good as a new car off the showroom floor. First of all, the repair bills go through the roof, you never know when it will break down, it looks crummy, and you can't feel that good tying your door shut with a bungie cord. AND, if people add up their repair bills and the cost of gas, along with the worry of breakdowns, you really will be spending more per month than if you just get a nice vehicle and maintain it. (No I'm not a car salesman, and neither is my husband - just saying that people think that putting good food in their body and staying healthy is more expensive than eating junk - and it's NOT.)
Okay - enough with the car analogy. But back to my point - I can have fun doing this, eat foods that I love, not go hungry, and socialize as much as I want even if food is involved. How do you ask, is this possible? Well, I looked back at everything and every diet I have ever followed, and I do believe - for me - that the old WW CORE is the way to go. I know about Momentum and Filling Foods, and those of you who are brand new to WW, don't even worry about what you may be missing with CORE - it's basically the same, but with a few tweaks. I've decided to do CORE rather than Filling Foods because, although I have the materials for both, I did follow CORE in the past and so I am comfortable with it's lists, recipes and rules.
But WHY is it going to be different this time? Because I say it is - that's why! I have re-acquainted myself with the message boards at Dottie's Weight Loss Zone: http://www.dwlz2.com/forum/ and the people there are the best support that I have ever had. (That is not to say that I haven't had other support - including my WW leader, Beth, and my husband and both my children - but I'm talking about group support that is constantly available whenever I need it!) We have a group on the forum "We Can!" and with daily postings by myself and my web friends, I can feel the surge of energy to face this every day and know that there are people that are facing it with me and can lend their support and suggestions as I go along. And, since teaching is the best learning, I also garner support for myself by supporting others.
Also - and thanks to Jeanne, a DWLZ supporter who posted: I did it! I am not waiting until I get to goal!!! who signed up to do a half-marathon, I am thinking of doing one myself. Half-marathons seem to be in the air because when I went to visit my most favorite blog by Heather, a WW leader: http://www.leadingtheweigh.com/ she posted that she is doing "Disney Princess 1/2 Marathon Weekend" in March. WELL - that's all I needed to hear! I have been in touch with Disney and you can walk it (as long as you walk within the 16 minute mile) and, as far as I know at this point, it is March 6, 2011. I have extremely bad knees and wear "hardware" braces, but I am going to aim for it! I found a beginner 1/2 marathon training schedule that works in one-week increments. If I do it in one-month increments I will still have plenty of time left over! A 5K (3 miles) just about does me in ... but I've never trained either... so who knows!
Just something clicked over the weekend. I can do this - CORE and train- AND have fun - eating and preparing the fresh foods that I love AND look forward to a goal which takes place at the "happiest place on earth" (ya'll can laugh - but I love WDW!).
Well - there's so much more... but I am going to end here (for now).
Wishing you all a great and FUN weight loss journey!
Samida
p.s. If you visit my site, please note that those were professional photographs with professionally done makeup and hair. I do not look like that in real life!!! I wish I did - but I don't!
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