[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!
A great lesson I’ve learned recently is to take a step in a direction no matter which way you head. It’s easy and sometimes upsetting to just sit and try to figure out what you want to do and then worry about how to get there or if it will be the right choice in your life, but by only thinking and not acting, absolutely nothing will happen. To figure out anything you have to take the steps and really experience life, the good and the bad.
LOVE your scale disclaimer! I do not own a scale for the simple fact that I would use it multiple times a day! I know how much I weigh only based on doctors visits and the occasional curiosity at the gym! Thanks for the smile!
Health includes everything in moderation, nothing in excess. It is about finding balance, and your balance may not be the same as someone else’s balance.
I try to remind myself it’s not what my legs look like, it’s what they can do that matters. And always be aware that we learn so much from making mistakes. The only way to truly fail, is if we’re too afraid to try. Thanks for a great post – and give-away!
I have learned (through a bunch of trial and error) that I’m my most beautiful when I love my body and feed it nutritious food I love. I can’t feel beautiful when I’m critical or restrictive, because it’s not trusting my body to tell me where I should be.
When I trust my body, challenge my body, and give it a non-critical and nutritious attitude, it does all the work for me!
It tells me when I’m full and well nourished from beautiful foods, it tells me when I can push harder, it tells me when I should rest, it tells me when I harmed it with something icky and processed, and it rewards me (when I treat it right) with a happy life, a free mind, loads of energy, and a great figure.
What’s not to love? :)
live in love
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
A poem:
In the Moment
Let go of the ways you thought life would unfold; the holding of plans or dreams or expectations-Let is all go. Save your strength to swim with the tide. The choice to fight what is here before you now will only result in struggle, fear and desperate attempts to flee from the very energy you long for. Let it go.
Let it all go and flow with the grace that washes through your days whether you receive it gently or with all your quills raised to defend against invaders. Take this on faith: The mind may never find the explanations that it seeks but you will move forward nonetheless.
Let go, and the wave’s crest will carry you to unknown shores, beyond your wildest dreams or destinations. Let it all go and find the place of rest and pace and certain transformation.
-Danna Faulds
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
A poem:
In the Moment
Let go of the ways you thought life would unfold; the holding of plans or dreams or expectations-Let is all go. Save your strength to swim with the tide. The choice to fight what is here before you now will only result in struggle, fear and desperate attempts to flee from the very energy you long for. Let it go.
Let it all go and flow with the grace that washes through your days whether you receive it gently or with all your quills raised to defend against invaders. Take this on faith: The mind may never find the explanations that it seeks but you will move forward nonetheless.
Let go, and the wave’s crest will carry you to unknown shores, beyond your wildest dreams or destinations. Let it all go and find the place of rest and pace and certain transformation.
-Danna Faulds
A poem:
In the Moment
Let go of the ways you thought life would unfold; the holding of plans or dreams or expectations-Let is all go. Save your strength to swim with the tide. The choice to fight what is here before you now will only result in struggle, fear and desperate attempts to flee from the very energy you long for. Let it go.
Let it all go and flow with the grace that washes through your days whether you receive it gently or with all your quills raised to defend against invaders. Take this on faith: The mind may never find the explanations that it seeks but you will move forward nonetheless.
Let go, and the wave’s crest will carry you to unknown shores, beyond your wildest dreams or destinations. Let it all go and find the place of rest and peace and certain transformation.
-Danna Faulds
Don’t drive into the future with your eyes in the rearview mirror.
“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Matthew 19:25-27
I’ve learned to listen to my body and do what feels right for ME. I’m much healthier and happier now that I don’t worry about what other people say I should eat or do to be healthy. I used to eat things people gave me just to be polite, even if I really didn’t want it. But I’ve realized that it’s better to be honest and just say “I don’t eat sugar (or meat, or whatever).” They’ll understand.
I’ve learned so much. To go with the flow, so always take good care of my body, to live in the moment. Living free…that’s what I learned and what is so precious to me.
love is the answer
I’m SO happy that you have a scale disclaimer. Lately, I’ve been feeling OBSESSED with the scale and its numbers. I know it changes every day, but I just can’t seem to get that concept through my head, so I constantly check the scale, sometimes mutliple times throughout the day. Your scale disclaimer is probably the most important thing I’ve learned thus far and will take with me tomorrow when I wake up and feel the urge to get on the scale. It also reminded me to think of all the amazing things in my life I have been blessed with! Thank you so much for posting this. :o)
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx
I love this as it’s exactly my point.
if you obsess about one single aspect of life, you forget to enjoy the rest of it.
you can not live a perfect life, a body is just a body and it is up to you to make that body work in unison with your mind.
Finally, after years of Yo-Yo-ing and my mind going crazy, my confidence hitting rock bottom and my metabolism being totally screwed up, my weight is stable, and it has been for the past 6 months.
I have struggled sooo hard to get to terms with those 10 extra “vanity-pounds”, but i eat well, i don’t leave the dinner table still hungry anymore and i am physically stronger than ever before.
I no longer aim to loose those pounds, i now aim to eat real foods that my body craves rather than “overriding” the real nutritional needs with refined sugars and crap… which i to my enormous surprise discovered that i actually don’t like…
I’ve kicked my sugar habit and discovered that i don’t actually like sugar… how bizarre is that?
Proverbs 17:22, “A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones”
In my honest opinion, it doesn’t hurt to try and see the good in everyone and everything.
OhSheGlows makes me smile and laugh and be curious about food again. Committed vegetarian and yogini who eats rather blandly, you inspire me to want to eat, laugh, love, and live!!
I’ve learned to relax and not take things so seriously (this is still a work in progress). I have found that practicing yoga really helps with this a lot. Amazing how your physical body, breathing, and state of mind are so interconnected!