[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!
“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.” Love it, so true. :)
What a great post! I have loved your blog.
My site has a similar goal: finding balance in the midst of health & fitness. It is hard and there is a very fine line to walk :)
If there is one thing I’ve learned is that GUILT DOES NOT WORK. I used to think that it would be the one thing that would motivate me enough to finally get healthy and fit but I was wrong. It made it harder and less appealing. I’m now motivated by my desire to feel good and healthy. I try to inspire others to do the same :)
Whenever I am struggling with my weight issues, I always remember what the wisest woman I know – my mom – told me…
“When I am old and look back on my life, I want to know I spent my life doing the things that make me happy and living to the fullest, rather than obsessing over my body and weight.”
This helps to ground me in what is truly important in my life, and helps me to get through the more difficult times.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. ~Ralph Marston
“Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game.” :)
Well, I’m trying to learn that life is what you make it, and God will always give you what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT. I’m not sure I’ve fully embraced and employed that…but I’m trying!
Lesson learned : that out-of-shape, sluggish body was not who I am. This getting-fit, capable, beautiful body IS. I realized recently that I have more control over this body – how it looks and feels and how healthy it can be! – than I was giving myself credit for.
I think this post rings exactly along the same lines with the email I sent you about the psychological abuse I endured around my weight and appearance from my father (I actually rarely talk about it with anyone, so posting this is actually therapeutic for me in and of itself!) so I thought I would share a quote from that email with everyone about a lesson I learned along my journey to self-acceptance in hopes that it gives them a lightbulb moment too :)
Perfection only exists in the imperfections of the human mind, and true beauty lies in being uniquely you – we are all so different from one another and we should celebrate that!
“It’s not about PERFECT. It’s about EFFORT. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.” -JM
2 years ago this January is when I started my weight loss battle. I’m down 50 pounds and every day, I have to choose the truth that I can do this. I am beautiful. I am loved. It’s worth the pain, frustration, and sweat. I am strong enough. I’m not alone.
“It’s not about PERFECT. It’s about EFFORT. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.” -JM
2 years ago this January is when I started my weight loss battle. I’m down 50 pounds and every day, I have to choose the truth that I can do this. I am beautiful. I am loved. It’s worth the pain, frustration, and sweat. I am strong enough. I’m not alone.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.-Margaret Lee Runbeck
You couldn’t be more right Angela! Create the lift you want!
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver
I learned a simple lesson this year that we were all taught in elementary school: be yourself.
Being genuine has been far more rewarding than I ever thought it could be! It doesn’t mean I don’t stop trying to improve, but just that I’m more honest with people about my successes and failures. On a relationship, confidence and contentment high right now!
Be yourself! :)
A lot of the things I’ve been trying to change about myself, aren’t things I really WANT to change about myself. They are things I’m supposed to want to change.
-I have crazy wild hair. I’m done trying to tame it!
-I’m fair skinned, and I like it that way. I may look like a Tim Burton character with no make up on, but I will never tan again.
-Some parts of my body squish a little. I’m active, I cook well, and I eat well. Let it squish!
Women in magazines and on television are beautiful, but so are we. Some of us are frizzy, pale, and squishy. We’re also intelligent, unique, driven, funny, and quirky women with tons of people who wouldn’t have us any other way. Let’s stop the ridiculous competitions and comparisons and love on ourselves a little bit.
“life’s a slippery slope, regret’s the steepest hill
hope for the best, plan for the worst
and maybe wind up somewhere in the middle.”
~Bright Eyes
“Don’t compare your perceived lack of success to the perceived success of others.” (Not sure the source). Wise words to live by!!!
My piece of wisdom I’ve learned along the way: I’d rather eat lots of nutritious food than very little u healthy junk
“When you find a weakness it’s the best news you can hear because it’s something that can really improve your performance and your growth.” – Christian Thibaudeau
My favorite quote is something my dad used to tell me all the time: “You can do anything you want to if you want to badly enough.”
It is the most true advice/guidance I’ve ever known.
Thanks for your blog…it is such a great inspiration to me! So my “lesson learned” is sort of an obvious one but yet still tough for me to get my hands around. When you have a moment of weakness and eat something not so good, it doesn’t give you free license to continue eating terribly for the rest of the day. The woman who told me this likened it to backing into a parked car….okay you blew it but you don’t keep backing up, you put it in drive and get on with your day. I often try to remember this when I indulge more than I intended to!
sharing a lesson you’ve learned along your journey = there isn’t really much ‘luck’ in life. Life is what you make of it, what you choose of it, how you react to things, how you frame things, mind over matter, attitude.
We all have things that go well, and go awfully. There is some luck involved in life sure, but mostly, I believe ‘luck’ is where opportunity meets preparation and hard work.