[Image from my Operation Beautiful Book Tour Post]
‘I don’t have a goal weight, I have a goal life.’
I heard this quote while watching an interview with an Extreme Weight Loss participant and it really clicked with me!
Along my journey, I realized that a certain number on the scale wouldn’t magically make my life perfect. For years I chased this number while becoming more and more unhappy.
I now focus on creating the life that I want, by taking small steps each day. It’s about how I feel each day when I wake up. If I wake up happy and eager to start the day, I know I’m on the right track. A certain number can’t dictate my happiness, but I can make changes in my life to feel my best.
While, I’m busy baking up orders today, I thought it would be fun to have a Glo Bar giveaway!
Leave a comment below sharing a lesson you’ve learned along your journey or simply share one of your favourite quotes.
One lucky winner will receive a delicious box of 10 Glo Bars! Goodluck!
Coming up, one of our favourite recipes so far in 2011….get excited!
Wow those Glo Bars look good!
I know this might be a bit strange, but I really think the best lesson I’ve learned is that I still have so many lessons left to learn. Everyday is a little lesson on being kinder to myself and trying to relax out of the obsessive behaviour I can find creeping in, whether it be about time or food or college work. Everyday I realise I need to learn so much more and that the journey will last throughout my life, but that it’s ok that way. Realising I have so many of these lessons left helps me realise that it’s ok not to know, ok to learn and ok to not be perfect.
This is rather long but I hope it makes sense – and just to let you know your blog is helping so much! I love your recipes, and keeping food interesting and healthy really helps me eat lots of it :)
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think my biggest lesson has been to learn not to compare myself to other people (and I continue to work on this all the time!!) and to let little things go and continue to live in the present!
You are unique. No one is made like you, you’re special. No number could ever classify, describe, or define who you are. Embrace you’re uniqueness and love how your body moves through this life.
I have learned that the main goal in life is to be happy. Now I remember that all the time. If I am not happy in a particular moment, I take a few minutes to do something that makes me happy. :D
What a great idea for a giveaway. Not only do I love globars, but I love collecting quotes. WIN WIN!
My favorite mantra: “You are beautiful. Please stop abusing your body and love it because it is perfect just the way it is”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
These words were my mantra to run my longest race at 10 miles. I planned a training schedule and stuck to it and beat my goal time by 7 minutes! I felt unstoppable. Next up, half marathon in the fall!
I have also learned to not use the scale as a measure of perfection. I heard a funny quote once helps me laugh while putting things into perspective.
“Scales are for fishes!”
Since then, I try to focus more on what my body can DO rather than what it looks like. And I’m much happier than I was when relying on the scale for confirmation of perfection. Changing my perspective has helped me to meet many of my long-term fitness goals including running a half marathon under 1:43! :)
For the past 4 months I have been totally Vegan. It has helped my arthritis. I was so surprised how easy it was to eat healthily once I made the choice. I love your blog.
Hi Angela! I have been following your blog for sometime now. I want to thank you for being so open with your feelings. I started a weight loss journey a couple of years ago. I lost 50 pounds in one year, however, I cut my calories significantly and worked out incessantly to do so. At the beginning of this year, I found myself adding more food to my diet to become more balanced. However, depriving myself for so long led to constant binges. I have gained 15 pounds since the beginning of this (which was probably needed). I am not trying to find balance in my life. I told my husband the other day “I don’t know what is normal anymore in terms of eating” I have made great progress. I am now eating more well rounded meals to ensure I am not depriving myself and avoiding binges at the same time. It is so crazy how easy it is to lose control. But I love that everyday is an opportunity to try again and figure it out. Thank you for always promoting a healthy lifestyle and showing that it is possible to eat and lose/maintain weight at the same time! :)
It’s taken me a few years, but I have found that my faith will sustain me through the most difficult times, but should not be forgotten during the best.
Being myself as klutzy and dorky and annoying as I can be, people love me for me, not for who I think people think I should be. (did you get all that)? :)
A lesson I’ve learned is that you must concentrate only on yourself, and never compare, contrast or compete with others. Everyone’s path and journey are different, and at the end of the day you all that matters is the way you handle your own life.
I’ve also learned that being strong and healthy is a much better focus than being thin and skinny. The goal is to feel good and prolong and enrich life, not starve or restrict. Positive rather than negative. Build muscle and add healthy foods rather than lose fat and cut out bad foods. Its all in the mindset!
Do your body good- take rest time, and feed it what it will run on, and heal with. Eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re not (hahha.. actually i overeat at times, but i think that my hunger always jokes with me and when i feel i should eat more because of the exercise i did that day, hunger cues aren’t by best bet for when i need to eat). Also exercise helped me a lot in my healing!
I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter as much about being accepted by others as it is to accept myself.
I’d love to try your GloBars!
I’ve learned and am still learning that we need to follow our heart and not the “should be/should do/ should aspire to” in life. Ultimately that can be checking a box. I want to be living every moment and fulfilling the greatest me I can be every moment.
“good trees don’t grow with ease. the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.”
i love that quote because it reminds me that the struggles and the trials are worth it!
Awesome giveaway! One of my favorite quotes is “be a warrior not a worrier” because it can apply to so many different situations.
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
When I realized the more tempting I made something, the easier it was to cave and go for it, the easier it was to fall back on my old ways and habits.
Now, nothing is a temptation. If I want it, I have it, just in moderation.
I think one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the past couple of years is not to compare myself with others. Jealousy is a very destructive force and is totally unnecessary. I work on focusing on all the positive wonderful things that I have in my life :)