Hey there!
I have great news and I have good goals. I wills start with the great news.
Last year I had some blood work done and my Doc was concerned about my high cholesterol. My diet and lack of exercise were no bueno so I was really not surprised when my results came back. My Doc is great and instead of putting me straight on meds, he gave me a chance to see if I would be able to correct the situation naturally. Challenge eventually excepted!
This morning I received a call from my Doc and I quote, "Your cholesterol is Excellent!" Go Scuba, Go Scuba!
I credit my turn around to two primary factors.
1) Changing my diet by cutting out fast food and making more strategic choices all around with the foods I choose to put into my mouth. (eg: egg whites, lean meats, more veggies ect. not all the time but more often than not.)
2) For 6 months now I have been taking doTERRA supplements, namely all 3 of the supplements in the Lifelong Vitality Pack. Many many people have seen seen their cholesterol go down after taking this pack for a few months, and now I am one of them! (Next I am going to work with my Doc to see if I still need to be taking my high blood pressure meds.)
Now I will talk about the good goals I have for this week that are a response to gaining back the 2 lbs that I lost last week. I have this invisible barrier at 280 that I just need to get intense about busting through. This whole journey of mine has been about setting goals and challenges for myself and achieving them. This is my current one.
My 3 week goal is to get past this 280 hurdle and weigh, at most, 278 3 weeks from now. I am at 284 today. 6 lbs in three weeks is totally doable, and it will be a significant statement for me since that has been an allusive achievement for multiple reasons. I have a few theories as to why this is and I have talked about them before so I will not bring them up again now. The bottom line is that I need to get back to my former intensity and Rock the Party that Rocks the Party!
I will get back to regular walking and I am going to add back in some resistance work. If it's heavy, I am going to lift it! I am also going to put increased effort into the portions I am eating and when I am eating them. (My 2 biggest Nemesis.) How much food and how late I am eating continue to be where I struggle. Even though what I am eating is WAY better than what I used to eat, portions and late night eating are battles I have yet to consistently win.
My goals for this week are:
1) Eat only the reasonable portion that is on my plate at the start of a meal and no re-loading the plate.
2) No simple carbs after 7pm. I will only eat a small amount of protein or veggies if I feel like I need to eat something after 7pm.
3) Work even harder on my goal of hydration. I will drink at least 100 oz of H20 every day.
Take away for this week:
It is one thing to stumble. We will stumble. It is quite another thing to learn from our stumbles and the stumbles of others and to set and meet smaller goals to help break on through to the other side of the stumbles. It is by doing this that we will ultimately reach our larger goals.
Have a great week!
Scuba
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