[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!
The best advice I’ve ever received is from my mother, who said to me when I was a teenager: “No one is looking at you, so be yourself”.
“In three words I can sum up what I’ve learned about life: it goes on”
Robert Frost
My favorite quote by far, weight loss journey or otherwise, is: “Every act of faith begins with a seed of fear” – Max Lucado. It’s good for beginning and maintaing weight loss since the process never stops, try something new!
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” Roald Dahl
Life is full of magic. I bet those GloBars are too!
“Be kinder than necessary, because everyone is fighting some kind of battle.”
I’ve learned that as soon as you stop wanting something, yearning for it, thinking about it all the time….that’s when it comes. (Whether it’s weight loss, love, money, etc.)
I think I’m still learning. :)
My journey to becoming a runner has taught me that while it isn’t easy, I’ll get through it and it will be worth it. This applies to a different, more personal area of my life too in that I will always feel anxious in some situations, but I will get through it and I will be ok.
I’ve learned that running is a huge mental game. Even if you feel physically ok you can still convince yourself that you’re tired and need to stop.
…this has been a reoccuring theme for me – how can I live the best life for me? I recently touched upon it on my blog ….
Over the past two weeks some big changes have happened in the lives of people I’m close to … one of my best friends got engaged and another close friend lost his mom …
Both are reminders of how precious life is, how valuable friendships and family are … and how quickly it can all be taken away. I grabbed drinks on Friday night with some friends and we chatted about how losing someone makes you question the way in which you live your life and how we stress about the things that in hindsight really don’t matter. We all felt we could do better and stop stressing about the unimportant, stop shortchanging experiences and opportunities and live better.
These ideas have been reoccurring for me … I call it my quarter life crisis (25 is slowly creeping up on me) … but I have come to realize that they’re inevitable and healthy. I’m not perfect and I’d rather struggle then be complacent because that’s when I learn the most about myself and challenge my integrity. It’s still easy to get caught up in the mundane (bills, bosses, etc.) but I’ve gotta deal with the crap because it’s quite simply part of life…what matters is how well I can stop allowing the crap overwhelm me, find the time to make memories, do what is important to me with people that matter and just simply, live.
I always draw on this quote … it makes me stop and think about how i’m living and realize that the best way to live is to love. Period.
“For it is in loving, as well as in being loved, that we become most truly ourselves.
No matter what we do, say, or accomplish, or become, it is our capacity to love that ultimately defines us. In the end, nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we have loved one another.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
“Unhappiness is; sacrificing what someone truly wants for happiness in the moment.”
I loved the picture you posted today. Operation Beautiful was what first started me down the path to recovery. Once I started thinking about others I realized I wasn’t alone in the feeling and trails i was facing. I realized that life was so much more than my weight and jean size. I love this quote because every time I acted on my anxiety I truly was giving up what I truly wanted for what made me feel better in the moment.
i always have to remind myself to “keep it simple sweetie”. it applied to everything from working out, eating right, etc.
After getting some very difficult and sad news today, the only thing keeping me going right now are a few known quotes….
1. Everything happens for a reason
2. Anything in life worth having, doesn’t come easy
If I can live by those words for some time now hopefully I can get through this hard time.
thanks for writing this wonderful post! I bookmarked it so that I can read all the insightful comments whenever I’m having the “mean reds.” Geneen Roth’s book “Women, Food and God” has really helped me to better understand my relationship with food and given me the agency to proactively change it. For me, the main thing has been living in the moment – the good and the bad. Especially the bad because I realized with or without food I’m working through it and becoming stronger for it!
Life is what you make of it.
Healthy is a lifestyle and not just a diet.
One of my favourite quotes:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
So sweet of you Angela Glo.. Here’s a quote from an author that is feeding my soul, Henri Nouwen:
“You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.”
this is the healthy body that allows me to run mile after mile, work and spend time with my family, and wake-up every morning feeling healthy and happy for who I have BECOME!
i’ve learned that imperfection is both human and beautiful! i want to take those glo bars out of my computer screen and eat them right now.
One of my favorite quotes…
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
-George Eliot