My own little birthday challange...

[jsj0305]

I was thinking, it would be great to lose 15 or 20 pounds by the day after my birthday..november 1st. AAAahh..that's gonna be a doozie..Hubby's b-day oct.13th, halloween and then my b-day the next day...I am cursed!!! Anyway..if i have a mini goal, I can't screwup and eat b-day cake and halloween candy!! what do you guys think?

[wannabethintoo]

Re: My own little birthday challange...

Excellent idea!

[cleochatra]

Re: My own little birthday challange...

If you treat everyday as though it were part of the last 2 weeks of the challenge, would your paradigm change for the better?

"The last two weeks"

I also want to talk about a strategy I realized which has REALLY helped me the last 2 days.

It's been really tough lately for me to keep exercising and eating right, because of my prior habits on this way of eating. Just the other day, by chance, I said to myself, "What if this was the last 2 weeks before the end of the challenge? Would I work harder? Would I exercise everyday? Would I be more stringent in my eating habits than ever?"

A light bulb illuminated as I realized that if it were, in fact, the last 2 weeks of this challenge, o the things I'd do to get to goal at that last minute!

It was then and there I decided that I was going to treat every day as though it was within those last two weeks of December. Since then, I've not only exercised everyday, but I've stepped it up a bit. I now drink all my water. I eat every meal with meticulous preparation to ensure that each one of those 'fictional' last 2 weeks will yield me the greatest results and that I will hit goal by December 31!

Too many times have I sought after a goal, just to goof around for three months and then put in the effort the last 2 weeks. This time around, I don't want any regrets. I don't want to look back and say, "If only I'd exercised that week, I'd be down five more pounds!" I don't want any regrets this time around.

For me, every day is going to be one of those days I'd realize in those last couple of weeks in December where each and every one of us are going to work harder than ever to achieve those goals we have set for ourselves!

And what a difference it has made already.

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