Hey everyone,
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.
Cheers (clink)
Best,
B