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Hey STACers...Friday is here....whew. You know I've been thinking, which I do all the time, I think when I run, think when I bike, think, think think...this way of life is always spilling out and teaching me all kinds of things. I was reflecting about time the other day...We are all into time...It's one of our biggest currency's. Time makes us go from one thing to another, it causes us to rush and squeeze one more thing in...Time determine when we get up and when we go down to sleep often.
Atkins takes time. The more you have to loose the more time it's gonna take. DrA says that the longer it takes the better, because you might actually make a real life change. Those it takes along time to loose the weight might actually have a higher chance of keeping the weight off.
I am always struck by those who come here and need the weight off quickly and by a soon-approaching date. I know we won't see them for very long. It takes time for our bodies to release the weight, and for us to settle into sustainable routines...
I had to CHANGE MY LIFE, more than LOOSE WEIGHT. The by-product of a changed life is weight loss...but I prepared to give it a year. It's been a year in days it'll be a year. I am probably 5 lbs from a goal weight I wrote down out of the sky...I wear a size 6-8. I have tons of baggy skin that's not going any where, but I'm a very different 50 yr old than I was at 49.
I've given atkins time, and myself time. I went for a lifestyle and for the most part left the weight to take care of it's self...I have plans for year two. I want to be here for a whole nother year. I want to be in the size 6 jeans every month and take a picture of that. I want to do a triathalon and train for a half marathon and I want to do another triathalon in the summer. I want to sustain-over-time what I've earned...
I know it's gonna take alot of training and time to run that half marathon if I even can. I expect to give it 4-5mos of training....TIME.
Be patient, work Atkins the best you can today, live in that feeling of success and let the pounds come off on their own. Tell yourself you want to BE HERE, not OUTTA HERE in a year....
Atkins takes time. The more you have to loose the more time it's gonna take. DrA says that the longer it takes the better, because you might actually make a real life change. Those it takes along time to loose the weight might actually have a higher chance of keeping the weight off.
I am always struck by those who come here and need the weight off quickly and by a soon-approaching date. I know we won't see them for very long. It takes time for our bodies to release the weight, and for us to settle into sustainable routines...
I had to CHANGE MY LIFE, more than LOOSE WEIGHT. The by-product of a changed life is weight loss...but I prepared to give it a year. It's been a year in days it'll be a year. I am probably 5 lbs from a goal weight I wrote down out of the sky...I wear a size 6-8. I have tons of baggy skin that's not going any where, but I'm a very different 50 yr old than I was at 49.
I've given atkins time, and myself time. I went for a lifestyle and for the most part left the weight to take care of it's self...I have plans for year two. I want to be here for a whole nother year. I want to be in the size 6 jeans every month and take a picture of that. I want to do a triathalon and train for a half marathon and I want to do another triathalon in the summer. I want to sustain-over-time what I've earned...
I know it's gonna take alot of training and time to run that half marathon if I even can. I expect to give it 4-5mos of training....TIME.
Be patient, work Atkins the best you can today, live in that feeling of success and let the pounds come off on their own. Tell yourself you want to BE HERE, not OUTTA HERE in a year....
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