I shared this Top Ten List with a diet buddy and I want to share it with all of you -- hoping to share continuing motivation and inspiration.
Since my teen days, I remember thinking of dieting as a temporary fix, and keeping that uninformed mindset into my thirties and forties. Well, they say that the universe shows you the same lesson until you get it! I can wholeheartedly say that I got it now. Being on the South Beach has taught me discipline with all of those things that I used to scarf down my throat! Bread, pasta, rice, and potatoes were my biggest downfalls. Those first two weeks you have to give those up and it was hardcore discipline for someone like me!
What do you mean a half cup of rice is 1 serving?! I'm Spanish, and every Spanish person I know fills their dinner plate half full of rice! That's got to be about a cup and a half or two!!
Is it any wonder that all of that rice caught up with me?
Well, without further delay, here are my TOP 10 reasons to go the distance and beyond this time:
1. It hurts my knees!
2. Embarrassed to get out of breath on one flight of stairs (and fake breathing normally when I'm ready to gasp for breath!)
3. Clothes Shopping - tired of scouring stores for clothes that resemble something other than a box figure!
4. Because of #3, feeling frumpy and unsexy
5. Under all of my layers - I'm a social butterfly at heart, trapped inside the window -- and I want to be free, I want to want to socialize again!
6. It hurts my knees
7. I'm tired of being the biggest person in the room with my family or group of friends.
8. Want to stop feeling horrible about my weight - and have a weight I feel good about.
9. Want to feel comfortable, energetic, sexy again with my husband (intimately).
10. IT HURTS MY KNEES! Sheesh!
A toast, TO US - to every pound we've shed and will shed.
First of all congratulations on "seeing the lighter side". I hope you not only succeed in your own life but continue to be an inspiration by spreading around what you know about how "DIET is a four-letter word" and this takes LIFESTYLE CHANGE! Anyone who understands that (IMO) is half way there!
My top tens looks like this, I want to go the distance and beyond because:
#10 - Being obese hurts my back!
#9 - I want to look nice in a bathing suit (not looking for Batwatch here...but just nice)!
#8 - I want to teach my already teenaged daughter that you can change your life at any point and live healthy!
#7 - I want to feel sexier!
#6 - I am going to love shopping for cute outfits in a size 8!
#5 - I don't want to be obese anymore!
#4 - I'm tired of being the largest of all of my friends!
#3 - I won't feel like I have to "suck in" when I'm supposed to be relaxing during a massage (be it from a professional or my SO)
#2 - I want to not only be around long enough to see my grandchildren, but also to play an "active" roll in their lives...I want to be able to chase them around the backyard
#1 - I want to LOOK like the princess I FEEL like in my wedding dress!
7. I'm tired of being the biggest person in the room with my family or group of friends.
I read this and thought--Wow! someone else does this too.
Anytime I went somewhere before I started losing weight, I would scan the room to see if I was the biggest person there. Usually, yes. If I wasn't, it was like a sigh of relief. If I was the biggest, I couldn't enjoy whatever I was doing because I felt like a spotlight was shining down on my head.
While I still have a lot of weight loss to go, I don't find myself doing this anymore.
Love your top ten list. Really hit home for me.
Lisa
My Top Ten Reasons to Lose it and Keep it Off!
