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****Another Most Excellent Journey Update: HERE. (4/02/10)****

****Another Update: I lost 3 pounds; this is prior to starting my Deal-A-Meal cards today. I am VERY excited about this. If you get a chance, check out this posting on Worms and Willpower – it will help you STOP the negative dialogue in your head.. (3/22/10)****

****Quick Update to this Post: Richard DID kick my bootie. OH MY GOSH I forgot how that VHS is from the devil. You start moving and DO NOT STOP FOR 40 MINUTES. I haven’t done that in ages. But, hooray, I did it today. Do you hear me Alpha Son??? I DID IT TODAY. And it was fun and the time flew by and I will do it again in the morning.(3/16/10)****

We interrupt this regularly scheduled program with an emergency bulletin. Well, no, not really but…

I am going to interrupt this blog for a bit. I am totally frustrated with how slow things have been moving along so I am going to punch up the exercise portion of my journey. Alpha Son is marrying his long time girlfriend in Vegas in September and I want to lose as much as I healthily can before then.

I am going to concentrate on doing what is important – drinking that water, portion control, hitting that treadmill, working the weights, and then I am going to add in this – don’t laugh – he can kick your bootie (& he’s in his 60′s now, can you believe that???):

I used to do the VHS Sweatin’ to the Oldies 1 and 2 years ago, and it worked.  I think what happens is that when something is funny and fun, you don’t think it can work – but it does.  The trick is to MOVE, DO SOMETHING, don’t just sit on your size too-big bootie in those stretch slacks with the elastic waist reading blogs about losing weight.  You KNOW you want real zip up jeans with no elastic in the waistband!

I have Momma’s Soapbox to thank for my renewed interest in these old tapes.  Her last few postings about getting “back in the saddle again” and “taking control” of her life and excess weight really talked to me.  She made a statement and part of it jumped out at me:  “…not doing anything about things I don’t like about myself and in my life.”  I have no one to blame if this excess weight doesn’t come off if I am not willing to do what it takes for that to happen.  I have no right to gripe and complain if I, me, myself, I am not doing anything about it.

Drop over there and read her posts; they will encourage you to LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE.

I WANT TO GO FROM THIS

 TO THIS: 

The only way I can do that is take responsibility for where I am today.  I have to do whatever it takes to get back in shape.  It is my ONLY job right now if I want to live long and live strong.

To that end, I will not be posting here again until I have lost 10 pounds.  I am going to concentrate, give attention to, think about, work with, and focus on Richard (with Alpha Hubby’s enthusiastic support) and working on those 10 pounds.

I am going to LIVE MY BEST LIFE.

This bracelet is a perfect reminder. You can get it here.

Or even better, Love the Life YOU Live (Amazon.com):

SEE YOU IN 10 POUNDS!

Quite a title, huh! Well I had to pull a Tough Love on myself for our 16th wedding anniversary. Alpha Hubby was willing to take me to the only romantic restuarant in our area. It’s one we always go to for our annivesary – Swiss – where you can have amazing cheese fondue (yes I swiped the recipe) and schnitzel. They always give us a romantic table lit by candles in the corner.

It was a tough decision. My body wanted to go. Oh yes, it did! It demanded it. But I made a Tough Love decision to tell it NO and stay home for my romantic dinner. It was the only way I could control what I ate and not blow my LBD journey.

So instead of going out and being serve amazing food – high in fat and calorie content – and for sure appetizers and desert, I sat down to this, the table:

Then the healthy food choices, thankyouverymuch – I especially love the packing box in the chair – tres’ romantique:

And, I even had this – portion control of my  steak *sigh* – (actually it was PLENTY):

Soooo – while I had an amazing and very romantic dinner with Alpha Hubby – verrrrry romantic (wink wink) – I didn’t gain any weight or lose any ground.  As a matter of fact, by the time the weekend was over and I nervously got on the scale – I’d actually lost 2 pounds.

CELEBRATE!!  It was so worth it, telling my body NO!  Not only NO but HECK NO.  Because by Monday, I had no regrets and no ground to make up – and that is something to CELEBRATE.  I didn’t even miss the restaurant.  I didn’t even mind doing the crystal, goldplate and china that evening (they can’t go in the dishwasher).  Everything else could wait!

Let me tell you what a victory this is – any time before this, I would have blown off the little voice inside my head saying, “Don’t blow it” and gone on out to eat, justifying it all the way.  “I deserve this because I’ve been good.”  Or even, “It’s my anniversary and I’ll be darned if I’m not going to celebrate it up right.”  Nope.  I thought ahead, made a wise decision and am so glad!

Here’s to that Little Black Dress journey – it is changing my lifestyle!!