Another day.....another diet

I have started a NEW diet program (you can follow my progress on my "I'm So Losing It" blog if you'd like) and it is TOUGH!!!! It is a high protein, food provided, one restricted home made meal, monitored program that allows no carbs, no sugar and NO CHEATING or.....boot.....off the program you go! Yikes! I was introduced to this program months ago, but found reasons, some justified and some not, to stall starting- mostly I was scared. This is a tough, full commitment program and although I knew I needed it I didn't "want" it. In the end I bit the bullet and jumped in with both feet- the only way on this program- and fully accepted that I needed, NEEDED, something more than I was doing for myself.

I wanted to lose weight, but I had a problem. I wanted to eat better, but I had a problem. I wanted to exercise more, but I had a problem. I wanted to be more active, but I had a problem. I wanted to reach my goals, but I had a problem. I finally faced the problem face to face, in the mirror, and said "NO MORE! Enough is enough! If you really want this you WILL do what it takes!" And then I did. I realized that if you really truly want something you will do whatever it takes to make it happen.

I truly believe that no goal, weight loss or otherwise, will happen till a person wants it enough to do whatever it takes. There may be many paths, use what works for you, but till you truly want it with no excuses, and you believe not only that you can and you will but that you deserve it for you, it won't happen. No one can give you that. You can't read it in a book. You can't find it in a magazine. You can't get it from a show. You can't eat from a bottle or swallow it in a pill. You have to face the mirror and say "I will no longer be the problem, but I will be a part of the solution because I deserve it for me!" Any goal less than yourself is not enough. Any effort less than your passionate best is not enough. You have to give 100% of you to you!

I am almost 2 weeks into this new diet program. At the end of the first week I weighed in and lost 5 inches and 14 pounds and I was amazed, not just at the loss, but because I DID IT! I followed through the tough and the miserable and it felt great. Is it easy now, a simple downhill coast? HECK NO! I still fight to not give up, but I not only want this, I want it for me. Wanting it for my kids, my husband and my dreams of traveling, etc those are icing on the cake. I am fighting this fight for me and I am going to win!