[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!
I’ve learned to trust my gut.
I am going back to school to be a nurse after earning an all-but-useless humanities degree, but had a gut feeling the other day that I don’t want to take any more classes next semester. My gut is telling to not waste the money, and to take a semester off so I can get a clearer perspective and really decide what I would do if I had free time to do it.
I’ve never trusted my gut before, and I’ve always regretted it. This time, I’m jumping in!
nothing like a giveaway to make me comment ;)
but really, i read your blog often, i just don’t comment. i do love it and it has helped me feed my family delicious vegan meals, so thank you!
i had a hard time listening to my body as far as exercise and hunger cues go. then i got pregnant and it wasn’t about me anymore. i really learned how to care for myself knowing that i had precious life depending on me. now he’s a happy and healthy 9 month old, yet i struggle once again to remember that a number on the scale wont make me happy. i have all that i need to make me happy, i just have to choose it.
this was a wonderful post: thanks for the reminder :)
We’re all told when we’re kids/teenagers that life is what you make it, but my turning-point lesson was when I realized that life is ONLY what you make it. Being an adult means that no parent, teacher, or loved one can give me a perfect life, or really any life at all. It’s all up to me to work for it. That’s really exciting to me, the idea that the sky really is the limit, that the only way to fail is to give up or run out of imagination (which is a truly renewable resource ;-)) It means that life is hard work, and sometimes it’s really hard to get up from the TV or computer and live life, but still, it’s so worth it.
I’ve learned not to beat myself up when I can’t exercise. It’s not worth it! I just try to do the best I can every day!
Here’s one of my favorite quotes,, which is a Cherokee proverb:
“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”
I’ve learned the power of forgiveness when it comes to myself. What I used to view scathingly as failures, now I embrace as something that happened, affected me, good or bad, and is over.
I’ve learned that removing processed foods opens you up to wonderful new foods.
I work with children who have various special needs and disabilities, and my favorite day was when one little girl with a phsyical disability said something that has resonated with me ever since.
“I don’t look at myself all the time, but I do feel all the time. So I try to feel happy all the time instead of thinking about how I look all the time.”
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.- Nietzsche
“The way you do anything, is the way you do everything”
I try to use this quote as a motivational tool in every aspect of my life! This helps when you have to tackle anything in life, big or small. Self-reflecting on our character is such a powerful way to approach change.
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go, Things go wrong so you can learn to appreciate them when they go right, You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust nobody but yourself, and Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -marilyn Monroe
I would love some globars!!!!!
“Don’t let your mind quit before your body.”
I’ve learned that life is too short to waste hating anyone.
“Getting lost is not a waste of time.”
Negative Self talk does not lead to a positive outcome.
I don’t want to be skinny. I want to be strong!
I have learned after several years that I am so much more than the number on the scale.
I have learned that once you become healthy for yourself and only yourself you can really do it! If you are always aspiring to make other people happy or satisfy some goal they have for you it never works!
I am NOT the number on my scale. I love the pic on your site today.
I have learned that my self worth is not reliant on anything so mundane and ordinary as a number. I am way more important than that.
I’ve definitely learned that the mind and the body are totally connected – when I’m stressed, my muscles feel it. When I’m carefree and in the moment, I feel good about myself!