Comments on: Make your choice

By: christieo

christieo — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:13:44 +0000

Great post! I would like to say I've changed my life. But in the back of my mind I sometimes think, “Ok so when I get there I can ease up a bit”. Which is very dangerous. What do I mean? Do I mean to think I might be done? Because then I'll be right back where I started. It isn't a diet. It's life. I'm glad you posted this.

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:40:56 +0000

Total change for us!

Its really funny, I hit a major goal today – I got under 300 pounds (I started at 370), and for one split second I was like – cool – you got your goal, now relax. Then I was like, huh? This isn't a race, and there is nothing to relax from. The eating habits that I have gained over these last months are HABIT – not diet. The exercising that I have started makes me feel good – no stopping that. I still have a long way to go in my ultimate journey.

I was talking to hubby and told him that I have lost 70 (or more, 90 once) pounds on three other occasions in my life and it always seemed like such a huge thing. This time? Not so much. I have a long way to go and I know it. Its not about a finish line, its about the starting line of the life I should be living for myself, my husband and my son. Game on!

By: Ann G

Ann G — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:27:51 +0000

Thanks for that reminder…making those LIFESTYLE changes are what the key to healthy weightloss is all about…for me it was giving up the “all the time cokes” and always getting up and exercising instead of once in a while exercising. I really LOVE working out now!!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:13:38 +0000

I think that is an awesome post! It is a lifestyle change and its up to you to change it. Thanks for the great motivation!

By: Christine R

Christine R — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:51:06 +0000

Definately a lifestyle change. Like you mentioned diets are a temporary fix, but I'm in for the long haul. I feel too good to want to go back!!!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:47:39 +0000

I sure hope I am chamging my life, but it is a daily struggle. Great post. Thanks!

By: Christy_TheSisterhood

Christy_TheSisterhood — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:31:07 +0000

Changing my life girl! One day at a time.

EXCELLENT post.

I'm so glad your dad took it seriously and changed his life. I'm sure you'll have many more wonderful years with him because of it.

By: slimbyjanuary

slimbyjanuary — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:29:19 +0000

Thea – How right your are. Its all about mindset. When I quit smoking I did it in my head first and never ever thought of it as a temporary thing and I think that losing weight should be the same. I took my Aunt to her cardiologist on Monday and just sitting with her and listening to him talk about your heart and what extra weight does to it and what we need to do about it scared the bleep out of me and it really reinforced my commitment to getting healthy.
I am a hairstylist and I work at a retirement village so I have this amazing opportunity to learn from these men and women and all their wisdom and the ones who have lost weight and kept it off say the same thing – “Its a lifestyle change” Once you make up your MIND that this is how you are going to eat for the rest of your life (with a treat every now and then) it becomes your reality.