Day 67 of 103in365: 17/103

Hey There!

So I am retro naming (and yes, I can do that) last week "Money Where Your Mouth Is Week!"

I put it there and I lost 4 LBS this week! That's right 4 LBS! That officially drops my under the 300 lb mark. I was there earlier this year and then went back. This time I am never going back. 

It was what is to become a normal week for me, but it was not the way I have been recently spending my weeks. Here is were some of the differences.

For starters, I worked out 6 out of the last 7 days! 2 workouts after work, 3 workouts before work and 1 workout at home. I am pretty gosh darn (excuse my language) proud of that fact. I am going to do that again this week!

Next, I put some real effort into planning what and how much I was eating and not eating "dinner 2." 

Another thing is following "The Skinny Rules" more closely. I am not doing all 20 of them yet and I am only doing about half the ones I am doing all the way. I have been working on doing about 10 of them for now, and adding more in incrementally. 

I feel better about my journey today than I did this time last week. I was beginning to feel  discouraged that I had not been losing a lot of weight and feeling like I was getting my PHD in "The Talk" but still in junior high when in came to "The Walk."  Now I feel I am really on my way and I hope to have my PHD in "The Walk" in 10 short months!  Nike did not make their slogan "Just Talk About It" Uncle Phil says "Just Do It" for a reason. "Talk" is easy,"doing" takes effort and dedication. All the talk in the world is not going to lose me another 86 lbs. Only by stopping just talking about it and getting off my duff and doing it is going to lose me another 86 lbs. So stopping just talking about it and getting off my duff is what I shall do!

Take Away for the Week: I found a great quote from Colin Powell. He said, "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty and persistence." I like this quote a lot. I love specifically that he puts so much emphasis on hard work, learning from failure and persistence. Without those three, success is really not likely to happen. We are more likely to just be hoping for success and talking about success and not getting any closer to having success. I found another great quote this week. This one is from Scuba. It goes "Get off your duff!"

Have a great week,

Scuba