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One of my buddies sent me a message today and in it she wrote - "I believe you are ready for this." It made me think of all the other times I tried to lose weight and failed. (I'd weigh myself EVERY day and if the scale didn't budge like I thought it should, I'd say -you know what...I'm going to have a 'fill in the blank' - this s---'- not working anyway. Unless you are really ready to lose weight, unless you truly BELIEVE in yourself and unless you are really ready to put in hard work that is necessary to do it, it probably won't work. And it is hard work. Because a life-time of habits are hard to change. Not to mention, how easily accessible those delicious fried foods are. And they are easily accessible. I can pick up the phone and have a cheeseburger and chips delivered to my door with a super-duper soda on the side. (I know in the "big city" you may have options for healthy food delivery, but here in my little southern town - not an option.) It's hard to change overnight and I have had set-backs but overall the big picture is what I need to focus on. It's a learning process. I only did okay yesterday, not perfect. I got a stomach virus a couple of days ago and you can use your imagination as to what all that entails. So, all that has made me feel not so energetic - so my work out only consisted of taking the dog for a 1 mile walk. I would have gone two (no..really I would have) but he didn't want to. Seriously, I took my 1 mile (measured out by my car) walk and decided to stop by the house to drop off my MP-3 player (needed to be synced) and a sweater (just got too hot.) Well, he just went into the house and looked it me as if to say, "Sister...we did a mile - it's muggy out there - let's just relax." He's a fat chocolate lab named Hershel. So, I thought...what the heck. As far as food went, I pretty much stuck to it until dinner when my daughter wanted me to make one of her favorite recipes and I did....and then kept "tasting" it...sigh. Let's just say...this recipe is not fat-smash acceptable. On a good note, I did make a batch of spinach pancakes for today and bought a big bag of organic apples to snack on! And did some grocery shopping. I saw it Wal-mart that they have suger-free spaghetti sauce...FINALLY - I was wondering last time I looked why the heck they didn't have that! So I bought some jars of that and I'm going to make some brown-rice pasta and use that sauce - and add some vegetables and take that to work tonight. I decided not to weigh myself until next week (like every Tuesday) so I don't make myself crazy.
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