Reasons I Am Committed to Losing 7 Pounds

Reminders to Myself

I owe this to myself. I want to see it happen. I am 44. It needs to happen soon! Why wait?

Medium Sized vs. Tiny
I want to experience the difference of being positively tiny, rather than just medium sized. I want to go all the way and see what it is like.

Eating junk isn't sustaining.
It really doesn't feel good to me anymore. I honestly feel better when I eat fresh, clean food.

Dessert is a different story.
I am not going to ever give up eating dessert. I am going to count my dessert consistently.  One cup of ice cream = 10 points. One cup honestly tastes better than two. After the first cup, it isn't about the taste anymore...

Clothing
I want to be able to wear anything I like and feel good in it. I don't want to have to censor my outfits based on the size of my derriere.  I want to be able to put on an outfit and feel fabulous, not "decent". A good example is the new sweater dress I purchased and haven't worn.

Consistency is the name of the game for me. I already do the right thing much of the time. I just need to become more consistent. My life is over the top busy right now. So sometimes fitting in things like another run to the store for fresh fruit and veggies that help me stay the course, can be truly difficult to fit in. However, as of today I am readopting my "No Excuses" Mindset.

I have decided to count points until I drop 7 pounds. I have been at  this weight for about a year and I am pretty content. However, it is a happy and content weight, not an "I feel skinny" weight.  I have decided to lose 7 pounds and then see how that makes me feel. I have had a few problems with this in the past:

• Since I don't have that much to lose, it is hard to keep my motivation and determination up.
• Part of me thinks that no matter how much weight I lose, I won't look the way I want to. I feel like genetics plays a role. But then I look at how some other on line folks have transformed their bodies and I think, "Wow. You really can go from overweight all the way to tiny."
• My life is on complete overload already.  
• I definitely don't want it to be so hard to maintain my weight that I can't ever relax around food.

However, I have decided to GO FOR IT! 

I am not going to do anything over the top in terms of exercise. I am just going to try to continue my consistency.

Last year was my year to become a consistent exerciser and this is going to be my year to become a consistent eater!