How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time...

I have a ton of stuff I want to write about but I'm going to take my time and write about one particular thing at a time! Speaking of big bites I found the above quote and thought it would work well for an analogy of this journey, when I look at the big picture and how much weight I want to lose I get a little panicky and feel that it will take FOR-EV-ERRRR...but if I take little bites, or make little goals it becomes a lot more do-able. This may seem like a no brainer to many people but I tend to be a jump in with both feet kinda girl and I make grand plans but they don't always happen because I don't always plan. When I do plan however, magic happens! When I'm organized I'm very organized, when I'm driven, I have a one track mind but it's getting to the place where I have a well organized thought out plan or goal that sometimes can trip me up, so thankfully I really believe I have gotten to that point with my fitness goals!

Some things I want to be writing about soon are the psychology of losing weight; how we need to change our minds in order to change our bodies, positive reinforcements, power of creative visualization, and changing old habits so that when we do reach our goals we don't swap one bad behavior for another...(i.e. reliance on alchohol rather than food). I am trying to find an article for a friend about building up to running a 5k, it was in a SELF or Fitness Magazine and it had a great little plan on how to start out slow but gradually be able to run a 5k...also I want to put some music playlists on here, I think that music makes or breaks a workout. I can't imagine working out without the benefit of my Ipod and so I will share and hope other people share their favorite songs to work out to!

On a side note, I had the opportunity to try a breakfast sandwich at Subway, I had the Western Egg Breakfast sandwich on whole wheat english muffin and according to the SUBWAY website it was 180 calories plus 28 calories for the honey mustard...not bad at all! Very filling and delish!

My determination to not care about the numbers from yesterday may have paid off...I'm wondering about how much heavy, stressful, bad thoughts might actually weigh...because after letting it all go and being determined to not be a slave to the number on the scale...they finally moved, down, several pounds.

One more thing before I sign off, this whole journey started because of the bad news re: diabetes and I wanted to give a little update on that. I went in this morning to have another full blood work up done and will have the results back next week however I take my blood sugar level every morning and since I have started this life changing little adventure my numbers have dropped almost 100 pts. consistently over the past three weeks. Also, my blood pressure which had been high for several years has dropped into the normal range. Those numbers my doctor and I attribute more to the huge reduction of stress and how I handle it, but regular exercise and not sneaking ciggarettes anymore have probably helped out too!

My goal is not only to have a smokin' hot curvy body like Nigella Lawson but to completely reverse this diabetic junk...to control my body with good nutrition and exercise. My question for anybody reading this today is, Who do you want to look like? What does your dream body look like? Figure that out and start imagining yourself living in that! Use the mind/body connection to your advantage. The subconscious mind accepts and treats both real conditions and mentally imagined ones as real. Your subconscious mind will accept what you visualize as true! No more negative self talk, forget the past and how it was, reject disbelief, doubts and negative thoughts...and have a sweet day!