Friday, March 16, 2012

Do You See What I See?



What do you see when you look in the mirror? One of the first steps on this journey we call weight loss (or winning, as I like to call it...) is to admit to ourselves that we are not perfect. Too often we strive for "perfection" without knowing or understanding fully what "perfection" is. The reason the word is in quotation marks is because it doesn't really exist! When I look in the mirror, I see a beautiful woman that wakes up with her back hurting, her knees hurting, and sometimes even her feet hurting. I see a smaller, more vibrant woman just screaming to break out of this exterior shell and become the vivacious woman she longs to be. I don't see low self esteem...I don't see self doubt anymore...because if I don't think I can do it, guess what??? I won't!!! You have to visualize that finish line in order to cross it. You are your biggest coach...but also your greatest enemy. Just like my 2 year old daughter tells me all the time: "You can do it mom!!!". Just those words help to get me through each day and each meal.

It's actually not as hard today as it was the first 2 weeks. In those weeks, I was detoxing from sugar. I've successfully cut my sugar intake by about 85-90% or more. I no longer add white sugar to any of my foods. If the food used to require sugar, it is a food I just try not to eat. I don't add sugar to my cereals, nor my pastas...primarily because I haven't been consuming too much pasta anyway...and when I made the stewed apples, I used some brown sugar. I look at the labels on EVERYTHING I consume. If it has high fructose corn syrup in it, I don't buy it. If it has more than 5-7 grams of sugar per serving, I try not to buy it. The only issue with sugar is that it doesn't specify on the labels, at least I don't think it does, how much of that sugar is natural sugar, for instance, fruit has a lot of sugar in it...BUT it's not the same as white sugar and your body does not treat it the same way.

If we were all "perfect" than God would have created us all to look exactly the same way!!! We don't!!! So don't strive to become something you cannot achieve...strive to become the woman or man God has created you to be!!! And YOU CAN DO IT too!!!

1 comment:

  1. I learned a while back (when I was on Weight Watchers) to avoid sugar. I cut my sugar and salt intake and switched to Splenda. Now, I use 1/2 the amount and if I have regular sugar its too sweet. Weight Watchers also taught me to drink Diet soda.. but I recently cut soda out of my diet all together. My weakness right now is bread and not enough water.. or activity in my life.

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