[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!
Years ago on Oprah I heard her say “eat to live, not live to eat” and I’ve always remembered that. Ah Oprah, how I will miss her :)
I’ve learned that my body’s ideal weight might not be the weight I think I want to be. I’m learning to be comfortable at the weight I’m at while still trying to be healthier!
First time poster here… Thank you so much for the wonderful blog – you are an inspiration to me :)
On the wall of the women’s center of my YMCA there is a Bible quote that I love reading while I’m on the treadmill logging miles:
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7
Nothing I eat will ever make me feel better for the long run.
It’s never too late if you mess up and miss a few workouts or eat junk for a while, you can always start over tomorrow. It’s never too late to balance out the unhealthy with healthy choices.
By being confident, you’ll be able to achieve anything
I have learned through my journey that becoming skinny does not solve any problem. If you are not size 0 or 2, it does not mean that you look horrible. I totally understood that whatever you wear in any size looks good when you are HAPPY!
Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda wisdom at its best! :)
what i’ve learned along the way is that being skinny does not equal being happy. i worked really hard to lose a lot of weight. i thought getting to my goal weight would make me happy, so when i got there, and was still unhappy, i realized i had a lot more to do then shedding some pounds — it’s an on-going process, and i’m still learning! :)
One of my favorites is “Everything is possible as long as you don’t know it’s impossible” from The Phantom Tollbooth. My motto lately is the oldie but goodie “one day at a time.”
The best thing I’ve ever heard when it comes to living healthy is that true healthy living comes when you stop trying and start living! It just gets easy. :)
One of the big lessons that I’ve learned this past year – you can can’t control what other people do to you, but you can control how you react. Basic lesson, but one I have to keep reminding myself of all the time, in some many parts of my life.
Hi Angela! Along my journey, I have learned that no one else’s moods or feelings should dictate my own mood or state of mind. I have the power to choose how I can react to negativity, and I can always choose to act in a positive way, no matter how hard that can sometimes be!
Your blog has been such an uplifting part of my day for the past two years and has helped me to learn so much and develop my love of cooking healthy meals– thank you for being you!
When you learn you are enough there is nothing that will be denied…
We must gain control of the mind chatter.
When you KNOW you are enough then when you ask for your desires
With the firm BELIEF that you are enough and you are deserving things
will start to happen. No external anything can make us happy!
I learned that I was lying to myself by thinking I “needed” certain foods. Yes, I have cravings, but there is nothing (i.e., animal products, processed food, junk food) that I really need. With the abundance of plant and grain based foods on the planet. No one “needs” to eat animals or to eat poorly.
If there’s one thing that’s constant in all of our lives, its CHANGE. If there’s one thing that’s ESSENTIAL FOR YOUR DESTINY, it’s CHANGE.
– Joyce Meyer
I’ve learned through the ups and downs of life that all I can control is myself… embracing who you are both your strengths and shortcomings allows you to evolve and embrace where you are at on this journey we call life
balance…it’s the one thing I’ve learned means the most in life.
‘The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.’~~Don Williams Jr.
a life (and mind and heart) filled
calories, scales, and obsession
is NOT a life.
let go.
make your LIFE count.
the hard thing and the right thing are often the same. along those lines, it’s really hard to be honest with yourself…it’s also invaluable. :)