Winner

I won the Biggest Loser contest at my office!  I ended up losing a little over 12% of my body weight over the contest period.  I can’t seem to remember when we started but it has been about 4-5 months.  Not too shabby!

My week of strict eating paid off with a scale loss of 3.8lbs.  I doubt that I really lost that much during one week but that was what the scale said during contest weigh in.  I was down from 181 the week before to 177.2.  My home scale reading that morning (the one I count) said 174.5!

I finally feel like I can see the light at the end of the tunnel here.  Even if I do not quite reach my intermediate goal of 155 by Sept 12th, it will be just around the corner.  I’ve lost 60lbs since having the baby.  60lbs!  When I went back to work in late October, I had only lost about 18lbs so having the baby didn’t do that much for me.  The next 42 pounds came off due to hard work.  I drag my butt out of bed 5-6 mornings a week for intense exercise and watch my diet very closely more often than I do not.

I’m proud of myself because it isn’t easy.  It simply isn’t.  Trying to lose 80+ pounds has taken a totally different level of mental and physical effort than trying to shed 10-15 pounds.  I falter – constantly.  I keep on getting back up too.

One of my Lean Eating lessons from last week really hit home for me.  I hope you get something out of it too if you are struggling with weight loss.

“Always something” is better than “all-or-nothing.”

The “all-or-nothing” approach, which is how most of us approach change, at least initially, is the opposite of the habit-based approach. The habit-based approach can be easily summed up as “always something.”

There is always something you can do.

Sure, it will be less than everything you can do, but you can’t really do everything, can you? Not for long anyway, and most of us would prefer to change for good, not just for a few weeks or months…Do “something” for long enough, and anything is possible.