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"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!"
"Everyone makes mistakes - the only people who never fail are those who never even try."
"Failure is only the ability to begin again, only this time more wisely."
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
"Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales."
"To be successful, drop the words “if only” and substitute the words “next time.”"
"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline."
"Love who you are now. The change you are making is because you love yourself and deserve the best. Not because you are a bad person and have to change to be loved."
"I had to be ready to make these changes.....and I had to learn how to treat myself as well as I would my best friend, especially during those times I wasn't so perfect.......not such a simple task."
"The first step I took was to love myself unconditionally," she says. "I am a person of value, regardless of what I weigh."
I hated it," she admits. "I hated going out there and exercising. It was like a chore. Now I enjoy it. The more I did it, the more fun it became. It's part of my life now. I feel funny if I don't exercise."
"Fill a backpack with anything equivalent to your total weight loss. Move around with it on for a while and see how heavy it gets. "
"Finally, something just switched inside of me, It was completely internal. I knew that I would never be the same again."
"Sometimes when the diet seems endless and I think it's going to take forever to reach my goal, I remind myself that it is indeed endless. There is no end in sight. It is not a short-term temporary effort. Remember family, we want to not only get thin and healthy, we want to stay that way... so I'm afraid we're in it for the long haul! Somehow realizing that I don't have to just make it for 1 or 2 years... but forever, makes me realize I may as well calm down and just do it. That 1 or 2 year prospect doesn't seem like such a big deal when you compare it to a lifetime!"
"I will not however promise you that you'll lose overnight, or that this is going to be easy....nothing worth anything in life is."
"Don't ever give up. Ever."
"All of those parts of me that I have been burying in fat are dying to get out and show the world what a beautiful person I am. I want my beauty now to be reflected on the outside as well as the inside."
"I guess I'm enjoying the attention, but ya know what - I've worked very hard and accomplished a lot for it! I know I have. I can FEEL the difference! I really AM shrinking! The "fame" will be short-lived, but the healthy lifestyle and new body are forever!"
"The Privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
"Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself."
"If its to be, it up to me. "
"Worry does not empty today of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength "
"Quitters never win, and winners never quit."
"We are what we repeatedly do : success, therefore is not an accident, but a habit - Aristotle."
"Before, I think I would have quit by now. Today, I will never quit. Even if I have a bad week, or a bad month...I refuse to quit this time. I know I have a long journey ahead of me, but I have found out that really like this journey."
"YOU are Worth the effort!"
"If the people around us whom we take care of are worth it,then so are WE............."
"I refuse to take orders from a cookie!..."
"The best kind of motivation comes from impressing even yourself!"
"There is no way any of that weight will ever find me again. It's lost and I don't care where it's gone as long as it's not on me!"
"Get rid of the excuses and stop thinking it will take too long. When you get there, the time it took means nothing!"
"I can't wait to see how it feels to be thin. But I am enjoying the journey and taking the time to let my body adjust and I'm learning to love myself a little bit more."
"I have a new focus now in addition to the weight loss. Yes, I want to lose weight so I can do things that I think my weight has caused me to avoid in the past. But I also want to find a deeper strength that doesn't exist when it comes to dealing with other people. I am confident in my abilities and my character but a complete mess when it comes to my physical being. And I don't give enough credit to others. Most aren't vain enough to judge me based on my size or any other physical attribute. I have to remember that."
"Advice: Love yourself where you are today. If you can't see the beautiful person inside you today how will you recognize him/her when you are thinner? Your soul doesn't change when your body does. The demons you face today will be with you until you love yourself enough to deal with them head-on. You deserve the peace that comes with loving who you are inside. It's okay to stop hiding that amazing person you are from the world. You're really not as fragile as you might think!"
it's less stressful to be eating healthily than to be pigging out--wishing daily that you were thin."
"Do you live in tomorrow when you must face today? At times, I forget to live in the moment, but what do I miss? The setting sun, the sound of birds' singing and, most importantly, I miss meeting myself. I am constantly changing, and if I don't spend time with myself in the here and now, I will never get to appreciate who I truly am because I am too busy focusing on who I want to be."
~Gary Barnes
"This is a marathon not a race!!"
"I think if we look at losing weight/getting healthy as a journey and not a destination, we'll arrive there eventually. If we only look at how far away the end-goal seems, we will be too scared to begin-or lose heart that we're not getting there fast enough and give up on the way."
"We cannot escape life by eating. There's only one real choice -- choose life and you will lose weight. Choose life and you will find the motivation to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full. Your body will love you for it and you will love yourself better also."
"Try an experiment today. Try living your life as if you loved it. Try showing up more fully and completely. Be yourself and be present. It won't make you fat. I promise that. Instead, you just might find someone living a life that you love and that someone will be you. Go for it. I'm out here in this life waiting for you
"Anything you want, you can have. All you need is the desire to take it. The desire to transform can work wonders when you're tempted by each day's offerings in the form of food, or sleeping in, or general slackardness (yes, I made that word up). How badly do you want it?"
"You're responsible for your every action, and anything you believe you can achieve, plain and simple."
"See the person you want to be inside your head, then live like that person. And watch yourself become that person."
"Don't Obsess: Not over the scales, not about how much food you're eating, not about drinking 8 glasses of water a day."
"Everything in moderation. Eat plenty, drink plenty, move plenty."
"If you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got!"
"Why? Because it fills me with surprise everytime it happens, a sense of wonder at the path my life's taken, and it simply amazes me. I get totally stunned - and I don't know how well I'll be able to put it into words here - because I'm suddenly aware that I'm not the big fat blob of a man I was, that sometime over the last few months the visualized Fred from the mirror stepped out and took his place, and I feel like I wasn't even aware of it. It's like I was fat, then suddenly I was not fat."
"Instead of fighting with yourself over what you can't have, why not change your underlying paradigm? Transformation isn't about denial (the "can't have"), it's about power (the "don't want"). If you took the time to think about what the food you're eating regularly - consistently eating, one might say, given what I think about consistency - is doing to your body, would you keep eating it regularly?"
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