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    HI All,

    This post is sorta an introductory and challengish that I hope we can all revert back to over this year as a way of keep on keeping on in 2009. I am not speaking with regard to some huge unobtainable goal many including me make on this the most motivating day of the year but instead something very simple that i got from one of my favorite motivational speakers -- Tony Robbins -- which i got my nick from. CANI? I can!


    "Constant and Neverending Improvement"
    Improve, Constantly and Neverending
    ~~ 2009 ~~


    That's how i am planning to achieve my goals this year, simply improving constantly without fail. Who can't succeed if they are focused simply on improving? Anyone want to join me?

    For stacers, i think sometimes we get into such a pattern of knowing the repeat system of well repeating. Its almost as if we get comfortable and feel safe in the security of repeating. Its the comfortzone because to succeed in losing the weight we want we will have to step out of our comfortzone and take things continuously to another level. These levels consist of success, becoming someone new, finding someone you sorta recognize in the mirror but then not having a clue who she or he is, or what to do with he or she. So sometimes that triggers a need for the norm, for what you do know and understand -- going back to the person you have been.

    So please feel to join me this year in constant and neverending improvement in 2009 so it will be the last time.

    My improvements this year will be the following:

    ***Staying on plan with a variety of food being used to keep it interesting by trying at least 2 new recipes a week. (I have a 3-ring binder of 1000 low carb recipes lol). And by being prepared and prep on the weekends for the week.

    ***Do a half hour minimum of HIIT on the eliptical at least 4 times a week. I will work up to 1/2 hour HIIT to 6 days a week and I am going to add into this twice weekly a morning HIIT 1/2 hour before work. I do weight training with a trainer twice a week.

    ***Finally, i am going to get to really know the woman who will be emerging, i will be rewarding this woman, showing her its okay to emerge and be seen and exit. And create ways such as new clothes, new ideas, new experiences, and new acceptance of being able to instead of not being able.


    Happy New Year everyone and here's to 2009 being the last time.

    cani
    Thanks for reading,
    ~~ cani ~~

    January Goals - 12lbs
    Dedicated to:
    ~ Eating on plan for Induction
    ~ Exercising 4x for 30 min
    ~ Improving each day

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    Re: 2009 is the last time!

    I'm in! I'm tired of hiding behind 60 pounds of fat. I need to think of my goals, though...

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    • #3
      Re: 2009 is the last time!

      Dear Cani! I love this CANI concept. Nice... Motivation is such a great thing and where ever we can get it is great and well, Tony Robbins is known for doing it right! Keep up with your plan. You will do great!
      Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says...I'll try again tommorrow.




      Start date: 10, Jan 2010 - 185lbs (84.4 kilos)
      Mini goal 1: 176 lbs (80 kls) met on 31.01.2010
      Mini goal 2: 165 lbs (75 kls)
      Mini goal 3: 154 lbs (70 kls)
      Mini goal 4: 143 lbs (65 kls)
      Mini goal 5: 132 lbs (60 kls)
      Goal weight: 125 lbs (55 kls)

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      • #4
        Re: 2009 is the last time!

        I really do enjoy your spirit. I would like to just grab a few ounces of your energy from you if I could. I have to admit that I too am hiding behind about 80 lbs. of fat & I am not sure why? Why did I do this to myself?

        The women inside of me would just kill for some new clothes. I know she has been dying to come out! But the scared me keeps her locked up - why?

        After I lost the weight before, I told myself I was going to NEVER go back to the way I was before.... now, I am even worse then I was before. I just kept shouveling it in...cakes, bread, candy, chocolate, more more more...

        I am here to say now: I am going to stop doing what I was doing - I am going to constantly try and improve and strive to be better at everything.

        I sat down and figured out the days I can go to the gym and exercise. Every day that I cant I will do something at home. No matter what time it is... I will not rest until I have helped myself.

        CANI - Yes, we can!

        Thank you.
        How does one become a butterfly?
        You must want to fly so much that you're willing to give up being a caterpillar.

        Shauna
        re-Start Weight: 250 lbs. 01/08/10
        240 lbs.
        230 lbs.
        220 lbs.
        GW 145


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        • #5
          Re: 2009 is the last time!

          Hi Folks!!

          Its great to hear from you all. This is simply how i plan to do this, just improving even if its something small that builds on the day before whether its an mental, emotional, physical etc improvement from the day before.

          One thing i am going to have to work on big time is blaming myself for having all this weight on me. I do take responsibility for it but blaming myself is a negative concept that is a huge guilt trigger for me that makes my good intentions fly out the window because i on many levels feel i am punishing myself by keeping me at this weight. This will be a HUGE struggle for me, but i am going to try and focus on feeling good rather than feeling bad about what came before today. I can't change the past, i can only move forward determined not to repeat the same mistakes!!

          Here's to us folks -- 2009 -- is the last time. CANI -- YES, i can!

          cani
          Thanks for reading,
          ~~ cani ~~

          January Goals - 12lbs
          Dedicated to:
          ~ Eating on plan for Induction
          ~ Exercising 4x for 30 min
          ~ Improving each day

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            Hi all,

            I am going tanning today, and then i HAVE to clean up my house lol. I got back from Jamaica a week ago friday and STILL haven't unpacked. I feel better with this tan so i am going to work on keeping it, it just makes me feel pretty and beautiful, reminding me i am despite the weight. I am craving pizza today so i am going to make a dish that use to be my staple since i can eat pizza every day!!

            I get italian sausage, hot, mild, and sweet and skillet it up adding oregano and italian spices and yes garlic. Then i portion out how much i want of the meat and add chopped roma tomatoes and black olives, sometimes pepperoni and i do also add same part chicken as i do the sausage and let it simmer for a while. Then i usually put this over steamed veggies and enjoy with some moz and parm cheese over the top until melted.

            If you make the meat and then add the veggies when you want to eat and the cheese, you will have better control if you are on induction and what else you have eaten. This is also awesome over a salad instead of dressing.

            So here is to the sunday before i have to actually work ALL the days in a month seeing i only worked 9 work days in December lol. Ahhh back to the real world :-(

            I have decided to work out for 1/2 hour on the eliptical doing HIIT on Monday, Wed, Thurs, and Sat of this next week. I will be training with weights on Thurs and Fri.

            I haven't decided what two recipes to try yet.

            My motivation for this week is pretty cool -- i have a 4 month challenge with this guy at work that we both have to lose 8 lbs in a month. Whoever loses less than 8 lbs has to put $8 in the pot. Whoever loses the less weight (i.e. i lose 10 lbs and he loses 9) has to put $8 in the pot. So on any average month we have up to $24 going in the pot and whoever loses the most weight at the end gets the pot. So this is a great incentive.

            Also, my gym is having a 6 month contest of body mass index loss where someone can win $10,000. I WANT TO WIN THIS!!!!!!! lol I am ready to go back to Jamaica!

            How's everyone else doing?

            ~~ cani ~~
            Thanks for reading,
            ~~ cani ~~

            January Goals - 12lbs
            Dedicated to:
            ~ Eating on plan for Induction
            ~ Exercising 4x for 30 min
            ~ Improving each day

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            • #7
              Re: 2009 is the last time!

              Cool Cani.
              It sounds like you have a good plan. I miss tanning. Maybe I will look for a new place to go on Monday. I remember how good I felt- sexy even with a tan. I did get a spray on last summer and I felt just as good for a few days, but laying in the heat relaxing is wonderful.

              Julie
              Re-Start Date 1/03/09 SW 232/LW199/CW 192
              #1 Goal 215 2/11/09
              #2 Goal- 198 4/26/09
              #3 Goal- 189
              #4 Goal- 179 #5 Goal- 160






              July 28th, 2008 Spinal Fusion L4-S1. 85% fused as of Jan 9th, 2009




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                Hey Julie,

                Yes, i don't get out in the sun a lot so i don't get the benefits of it, so i will see if tanning gives me that boost, i am going to talk to them today and see what the new beds do. I may over the summer do the same thing lay in the sun on the weekends for a bit to get the benefits of the sun.

                Yes this whole success is based on planning. And i need to have motivation or i fall flat on my face lol.

                cani
                Thanks for reading,
                ~~ cani ~~

                January Goals - 12lbs
                Dedicated to:
                ~ Eating on plan for Induction
                ~ Exercising 4x for 30 min
                ~ Improving each day

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                • #9
                  Re: 2009 is the last time!

                  Hi Cani,

                  Thanks for sharing this! I've been thinking about exactly this subject for the past few days now, and especially since I cheated on induction yesterday. I KNOW why I have slipped back into my comfort zone time and time again. I am a people pleaser. I've been worried my entire life more about what others think of me and expect of me than about what is actually good for me.I have always thought I could earn the love and approval of others by being what they wanted me to be. Well, life doesn't work that way, evidentally. I've come to realize that my "pleasing behaviors" are actually selfish and self-serving, and that I have created my own prison.

                  This year, I am resolving to be true to MYSELF. I used to think this was selfish, but I've learned that I expend so much energy trying to be different things for different people that I end up being nothing to everyone.Worse than nothing-I end up being a very angry, EMPTY person with absolutely no sense of self. It's no one's fault but my own that people treat me like a doormat, I'm the one who led them to believe that I am a doormat, and they are only too happy to enjoy the services I so grudgingly provide, while at the same time (healthily) bristling over my attempts to use it to extract love and a sense of belonging from them.Oh, they have thier own issues, too, but that is their problem, not mine to "fix".

                  From my past half-hearted attempts to find my genuine self, I know that this isn't going to sit too well with certain ones, who have come to enjoy my people pleasing traits. I've shouldered a lot of their responsibilities by doing so, which has made their lives quite a bit easier (and kept them from their own actualization process).

                  Piling on the weight has made quite a few folks I know a lot more comfortable with me. For whatever reason, I'm perceived to be a threat by some when I am at what I deem my healthiest weight.Well, they are just going to have to get used to that uncomfy feeling. I am tired of feeling bad and suffering healthwise, just so they can all feel comfortable. I'm tired of beating my head against a wall, trying to compromise with things that should NEVER be used for compromise in a relationship.I am extracting myself from the vicious cycle, taking full responsibility for my role in it. If others don't want to follow suit, I may have to face my terror of abandonment in the future. But then again, being alone and comfortable in my own skin sounds like a much better option than being surrounded by draining, artificial relationships, that in the long run are not truly benefitting any of us.

                  Best wishes to you, Cani, and everyone else, to be the best YOU you can be in 2009 and beyond!

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