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If we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

~Anthony Robbins

Tracking Tricks Week 16

Tracking better, more accurately and more consistently for improved weight loss results!

Tracking is very simple in theory. Write down what you eat, along with the portions sizes and call it good!

But, what happens when life happens?

Today is all about learning to track better and more consistently.

Point to Ponder:

A hunter can tell a lot from an animal's tracks: its size, relative speed and it's direction. We also leave "tracks" in our Trackers. They can tel us a lot about ourselves and our eating habits and can also give us clues about whether or not we're on the path to success.

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Motivation is what gets you started. HABIT is what keeps you going.

Practice and repeat!

~ Jim Rohn

Challenges this Week!

While making "ME FIRST" have you met any challenges?

Here are some I considered prior to meeting on Monday.

*Always considering others' needs before our own...
*Believing there's not enough time or resources to meet our needs....
*Believing it's selfish to pursue the things we need and desire....


Some Strategies to combat the Challenges

**Accepting our own needs are important
**Consciously seetting aside "ME TIME" for actions that support your weight loss goals
**Making specific plans to do things I enjoy
**Learning to say NO to extra demands on our time and resources
**Delegating responsibilities to others

Next Week

Tracking Tricks......

Take daily tracking-and your weight loss results- to a higher level!

WALK IT CHALLENGE

Just a reminder to get walking! Practice will only help you succeed for the BIG WALK IT CHALLENGE...on or around May 22.

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"Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself."
~Amos Bronson Alcott

Wrap up from yesterday!

When you learn to take care of yourself first, you're likely to be happier, healthier and more in control of your weight loss progress!

ME First!!! WEEK 15

ME First.....or last again?

Do you feel like you always come in last?

How do you feel about prioritizing your list to ensure the things you want are at the top?

Or do you just ponder about CALGONE taking you away?

IT is important to put yourself first when it comes to many things...but with weight loss you have to put yourself first.
Support from others can make weight loss easier, we need to learn how to be our own best friend. Carve time out for our own needs, comfort and feelings. Pretty scary at first. But, with time this eye opening truth can help!

1. Go to the top of the list. Every day, make a to do list and start with your own needs first.
2. Start to say NO!  If you tend to be a YES person, always agreeing to take care of others' needs can sabotage your efforts in weight loss.
3. Take time for what you love. Today that would mean being outside in the garden...does that work for you? When you find and commit yourself to things you love, it is easier.

If you need help getting started, here are some helps.....

This week start by taking the time to meal plan and plan your daily activity while at it.


Try to start small and see what you can find!

Willpower Quote

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't.  It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."  ~James Gordon

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"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."  ~Wayne Dyer

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"Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement."  ~Mulla Nasrudin

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.  When you don't know what harbor you're aiming for, no wind is the right wind."  ~Seneca

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"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."  ~Mahatma Gandhi

Quote of the Day

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."-- Thomas Jefferson

Monday, March 14, 2011

What restaurant/food have you enjoyed recently within the guidelines of the PointsPlus Program?  What do you enjoy with your 49 Weekly PointsPlus Allowance?  Do you enjoy yourself with your 49 WPPA?  If not…..WHY NOT?  GET INTO A MEETING THIS WEEK!!  Remind yourself that deprivation is NOT the key to any long term weight loss/maintenance plan!  If I couldn’t have Dunford chocolate donuts…I would die!!! (Okay- not literally….but people around me would be very unhappy due to my negative attitude and then may want to kill me….that’s all I’m saying.)  You see?  Variety/fun is the spice of life!!  ENJOY the program!  Enjoy your favorites!  It can ALL be done with the PointsPlus Program….again, the most LIVABLE PLAN we have EVER had!!!!

Easy Nachos

Easy Nachos15 Baked Tostitos Tortilla Scoops- 3 PPV
1/2 c. Great Value Fat Free Refried Beans- 2 PPV
1 (3.5 oz) container Ricos Salsa de Queso Nacho Cheese Sauce- 4 PPV
(Note- approx 3 oz. Kraft Velveeta (2% milk) cheese sauce had similar points values if you can't find the other)
2 Tbsp. Fat free sour cream- 0 PPV
Green onions, sliced
Tomatoes, diced

Fill each scoop with evenly divided amounts of refried beans, cheese sauce, and sour cream. Microwave until warmed through (approx. 30 seconds). Top with onions and tomatoes.
Total= 9 PointsPlus

Do Not Give Up!

"The difference in winning and losing is most often ...  not quitting."  ~Walt Disney

~Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."  He went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.  In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the city of Anaheim on the grounds that it would only attract riffraff.

~ As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private.  Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman.  As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success.  He turned to politics and was defeated in his first try for the legislature, again defeated in his first attempt to be nominated for congress, defeated in his application to be commissioner of the General Land Office, defeated in the senatorial election of 1854, defeated in his efforts for the vice-presidency in 1856, and defeated in the senatorial election of 1858.  At about that time, he wrote in a letter to a friend, "I am now the most miserable man living.  If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth."

~Winston Churchill failed sixth grade.  He was subsequently defeated in every election for public office until he became Prime Minister at the age of 62.  He later wrote, "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.  Never, Never, Never, Never give up." 

~Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7.  His parents thought he was "sub-normal," and one of his teachers descirbed him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams."  He was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School.  He did eventually learn to speak and read.  Even to do a little math.

~An expert said of Vince Lombardi:  "He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation."  Lombardi would later write, "It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up."

~Michael Jordan and Bob Cousy were each cut from their high school basketball teams.  Jordan once observed, "I've failed over and over again in my life.  That is why I succeed."

For more inspiration on not giving up:  http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/efficacynotgiveup.html

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"Being negative is easy.  There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro.  The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con."  ~Carolyn Hax

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"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this:  Act as if it were impossible to fail."  ~Dorothea Brande