[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 am traveling with the boy (man) I am dating, in Spain. I hadn´t weighed myself since, oh, winter break when at a doctors appointment they accidentally told me my weight, not knowing that I´d sworn it off!! I was SOOOO shocked by the number, that I was just maddened and “depressed” for days? weeks? affected for months, AND THEN I weighed myself. Here, 5 minutes ago, in the woman whose home I am staying ins bathroom, on her scale. It was a weight I liked, but I liked it simply because it was smaller, and seeing it contributed to an unhealthy thought pattern, that I should continue to resist and restrict. I was planning on continuing to do so, THEN, in SPAIN, I randomly have access to a computer for once, and I check your blog (which is linked to the private blog of my ED friends and I), and saw THIS POST. WITH A SCALE. hah, crazyyy!!
The best lesson I have learned is to live life like my kids – they are thoroughly spontaneous and can find joy in a cardboard box!
My favorite quote:
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely with a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thouroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a ride!”
The best lesson I have learned is to live life like my kids – they are thoroughly spontaneous and can find joy in a cardboard box!
My favorite quote:
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely with a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a ride!”
Amazing post!
My favorite quote has actually nothing to do with health, or self-confidence :
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
F. Nietzsche
Is this give away also for readers outside the US?
I’m from Holland, but a really loyal reader of your blog :)
I actually used alot of your quotes to explain some of the things I was going trough to relatives.
and no this is not to kiss up, just truth ;). But to not make it seem to butt-kissing, one of my favorite quotes, among loads is:
‘We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.’
Simple, but so true.
“you are your own worst critic.” Seriously, why are we so hard on ourselves?
Your blogs lately have been reading my mind!! When I say “I feel fat”(as it has been happening often) …. what do I really really really feel ??? Fat is NOT a feeling!
Is this only open to American readers?
Anyway, just for the heck of it…
I’ve learnt that you don’t always have to follow the path in life that you grew up expecting to be on forever. When you wake up every morning feeling sick, heavy, and grey, then what you’re doing isn’t right for you. For me, realising that the PhD was destroying my spirit and quitting to instead for for an NGO has taught me that we can create happiness.
Since becoming vegan and eating all organic, not only did I lose weight, but I also started to reveal a clearer mind. It has brought me closer to god and closer to my family/boyfriend because I am so much happier being a vegan. Before being vegan, I had mood swings and I was constantly thinking about food because I felt like I never ate enough. I’ve learned that your family, relationships, friends, and hobbies should take up your life, not food and dieting.
I’ve learned to not sweat the little stuff and that by being patient you can achieve the results that are best for you. Also, that the expectations I had for my body weren’t healthy and that I needed to change them and love my present body for what it was before making changes for my health. It’s a lifestyle, not a diet.
I am someone who at some time or another has been obsessed with scales and have finally stopped worrying about it. This blog described everything I have discovered about being obsessed with a stupid number on a scale. Thank you so much for again confirming this for me!
xx
I learned that you don’t have to worry about your weight if you’re eating a healthy, balanced diet. After turning vegan, I quickly lost excess pounds and then my body stabilized and I’ve been at a healthy weight ever since and I never think about portion control or eating too soon before going to sleep. I just eat :)
That piece of wisdom from my older brother, when I was in high school and upset about not getting the best mark on a paper: “there’ll always be people not doing as well as you do, and no matter how hard you work, in life there’ll always be someone doing better than you. And that’s fine.”
Possibly the best thing I’ve ever been told.
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
-Zig Ziglar
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” –Confucius
My favorite quote is from the beginning of The Great Gatsby:
‘In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” ‘
You can never really know what’s going on in other people’s lives – if they’re irritable or angry, there’s usually a reason. I always try to give people an easy time because I never know what they’ve been through.
One of my favorite quotes came from a professor during a lecture. She said it quite simply between slides, and I somehow managed to catch it between taking notes and doing my crossword… :) She said,
“It is not our talent that determines who we are, it is our choices.” -Dr. Snider
It has really stuck with me throughout the years and reminds me of what I can be capable of (emotional/physical strength, creativity, etc.) if I decide to make better choices for myself. We’re only given the one life, may as well live it the best we can. :)
I like to think I can be perfect and I think it goes without saying that I cannot. So the best lesson I am still learning is that I am great the way I am. No one is judging me harder than I am myself, so I just back off a bit each day, give myself some positive thoughts, and I’m slowly returning to the happy girl I once was!
Wow. Your scale disclaimer hit home. I met that magical number and did not have the happiness I thought I would have. I am here now with a few extra pounds still trying to find happiness. I am learning day to day to just live and not live for that magic number. I still have a long way to go and your website seems to be what I need now. I heard someone say that not everyone is judging the way you look like we always think. We have to break from that “self-centeredness” and realize it is not all about us. Others have more important things to worry about like themselves. Thanks for the support. Much needed.
there’s always rain before a rainbow