Two Month Countdown

So if I want to keep my camera,
I need to get and stay focused on my goal and nothing else!
Which is hard...
Because for the most part,
I can rarely hold a thought for more than a few minutes
Before my mind races to the next.
But keeping the end result in my mind, always, is the key, right?
Sooooo....
After watching Deb Cheslow last video in her 5 part series...
I apparently need to put systems in place.

This includes my dream board that has my face on models bodies..
So funny..but cool.
But also I wrote on my mirrors with dry erase little reminders of what I need to do through out the day.
Hey!!!!
Whatever it takes right!!!!????

While I haven't been able to do my walk for the past few days, I still have stayed on plan
And instead of walking I've been swimming.  Not as strenuous, but still movement.
YAY!!

If only I could battle this water intake thing!!
Curse you water monster!

Stop Complaining! Please!

So here I am,
Changing my life with gratitude and positive feelings and thoughts.
(I was going to say "trying to change", but that's like "trying to exercise", you either do or you don't!)
So anyway, where was I?... oh yea, changing my life, blah blah....
But I am surrounded by people who complain about.... well....
EVERYTHING!!!
I never realized it because, up until now,
I was participating in keeping the complaint department of life open!
Now that I'm focusing more on what I'm grateful for....
I'm so much more aware of what NOT being grateful sounds like.

Gratitude sounds so much nicer!

So I did a dumb thing...
No blonde jokes friends!

I took my shoe off during a walk around the lake because it was rubbing on my heel blister.
Now I have a giant blister on the bottom of my foot.
OOPS!!
Not gonna stop me from my goal though.....
Rock on!!!!

To React or To Respond, Same Thing?

My coach, Deb Cheslow, gave a lesson about this subject,
and me being the genius that I am thought to myself....
Aren't they the same thing?

So I got out my dictionary and guess what...totally opposite.
To Reacting means to repeat, resist or oppose something.....
A Response means to reply, answer or retort..
Color me corrected!
Funny thing, responsibility was right under response.........mmmmm

I've been having a situation problem and I guess I've been reacting to it.
Obviously it has gotten me nowhere.
(The last thing I need in my life is more resistance)
Then I blame myself for things not working out,  then.....
I punish myself by doing something that's not in my best interest,
Like eating only free day foods...
Not on a free day....
And then I get sad...
Such a vicious cycle..

Time to get off the merry-go-round and start responding to things...
Then take responsibility for them!!

Walked 2.5 miles today, need to do some strength training after work.
August 20th is creeping closer and closer.

P.S.  I believe everyone should have a coach or mentor.  It really helps!

Meal planning is key

While keeping on plan on the weekends is hard....
Keeping on plan after a long day at work is just as hard.. if not harder
My favorite thing I used to look forward to at the end of a hard day,
Was exactly what I shouldn't eat..
A bag of chips..
Cheese and crackers...
Fast Food...
Yada Yada

And while I am vegan now, no fast food or cheese, (you think I'd be thin!),
I find it so much easier to stay on plan
when I have everything mapped out for the week.
That's what Release has taught me.

So my walking partner friend is entering a triathlon in June.
That made me think that I too needed to step up my game.
No triathlons for me.
But something has got to rev up my workouts in order to achieve my goal on
August 20th!!!!!!
What to do????
What to do????
Mmmmm........