Live More Challenge Day 2

Here are some of the things you’re going to learn in the first video:

• Why the old model of losing weight is completely out of fashion how to have ‘fun’ fuel your weight loss
• The biggest mistake that most women make when it comes to our bodies and why it’s so important to stop it before we do any permanent damage
• The first two steps in my six-step method that are going to completely change the way you approach food and think about your life.

http://livemoreweighless.com/video-training-program/#video_1

It's too late in the day for me to commit to doing something fun (other than just keep watching Shameless). But I will keep making the fun choices.

I will also commit to mindful eating, this has also been a Weight Watchers topic.  It's hard because I don't have a kitchen table.  I really need to suck it up and get the table I want.

The Kick Ass Courage Challenge Day 7

Today's assignment is to have a tough conversation.  Really it is to confess your story to someone you love and/or trust but I don't have that.  So today I finally called the student loan people to get a retroactive forbearance so that I'm not 85 days past due.  And it wasn't even tough.  It was just a matter of facing the fear.  Stop dragging my feet.  And now my credit won't tank.

The Kickass Courage Project, Day 6

How do you treat yourself in relation to how you treat the people you love?

Ummm, well I don't have that problem that sacrificing mothers do.  I can't wax on about how I put the kids and my husband before me.  I'm number one because I'm the only one.  I spend more on gifts for myself than I do birthday presents for others.

But I am not as nice to myself as I am to others.  And I'm not even that nice to others.  I'm not mean per se, but I wish I was nicer.  More complimentary.  To others and myself.  It feels so cheesy sometimes and I am too sharp edged and sarcastic to be schmaltzy.

Live More Challenge Day 1

Live more, weigh less :)

The Kick Ass Courage Project, Day 5

#iamworthy

Have you established a list of prerequisites for happiness?  What are they?

I will be enough when:
....I am thin.
....I find a boyfriend.
....have kids.
....I make enough money.
....my skin is finally clear.
....I get a nose job.
....I get some poetry published.
....my student loan is paid off (so... never).
....I get my shit together.  Whatever that means!

Kick Ass Courage Project, Day 4

How/when will you put your mantra to use?

I can stop and acknowledge my inner critic.  I can jot down the instance and tell her I will address her later.

Now, when others are being critical, how can I shut them down without just shutting down myself?  Not that I want to get ahead of myself here.

The Kick Ass Courage Project, Day 3

Write an empowering mantra to acknowledge your inner critic and move on:

My automatic response was to tell her to fuck off, but Andrea explains that that doesn't work because you are resisting what is coming up and you are talking to yourself after all, so let's not be negative.

My mantra for myself is:  "I hear you, and you're not welcome here today."

It was a given one, didn't make this up myself, but will evolve this mantra as I use it.