Uhhgg!!!

So I was parusing the web looking for kindred spirits in the blog world that are trying to loose weight and get healthy, I googled "weight loss blogs" and got about 40 million results back, but anywho so I start clicking away looking for a good blog, new ideas just to connect you know what blogs are for right?

First blog I click on cute girl losing weight, funny, smart yada yada, I liked it!  Click blog #2 advertisement for some lose weight fast gimick, ok I get that click blog #3 advertisement for some lose weight fast gimick . . .hmmmmmm ok click blog #4 advertisement for some lose weight fast gimick!  WTF so I strat clicking like a crazy person, click click click crap crap crap!!  I found only 2 blog that were actual people sharing their stories the rest was scams!  This is why we are so messed up when it comes to being healthy!  We don't know what the heck to believe!

It's confusing, do this cleanse, eat this magic cookie, take 40 of these pills with every meal, it goes on and on and on.  I was so pissed by the time I was done I wanted to eat a Snickers!  Really folks there is no one thing that is going to make you thinner, the only person that has control of that is you!  Decide what is important to you and then research eatubg healthy NOT dieting.  You must change your lifestyle, your attitude your life, period.  Thats the only thing that will really work and the best part??  It's FREE!  You don't have to buy special food everyday or consistantly by pills or shakes, you can just eat regular food just make better choices.

So that's my rant for today!  See you all tomorrow!  3 day weekend!!!!

Valinda

I'M BACK!

Hello blog readers!




I know it has been way too long since I did an update! I am sorry!



I lost my motivation.



There I said it, when I first started this blog I promised to be raw and honest, and I have been. I just haven’t been able to write because I didn’t want to lie and say everything was good a rah rah and all of that stuff, but I also didn’t want to tell you that I haven’t exercised consistently in 2 weeks, have been eating poorly and have gained 4lbs back.



I didn’t want to tell you that so I stayed quite.



Not anymore! I am once again back on the hippo, it is difficult, I ate cake and ice cream and candy and burgers and everything that I shouldn’t have. Now my body wants it and I have to re train it not to want it anymore. I am embarrassed, ashamed of myself and sad but it’s ok because I am back on the hippo! I plateau’d and that was the catalyst for me to break stride and go back to my old ways. I wasn’t moving up or down but the biggest problem was that I knew what I needed to do, exercise more lower my calories to get out of that rut and I did the exact opposite!



I am not perfect, that’s why I do this blog to show you that a chubby girl can turn her health and weight around, but it is HARD and it has it’s ups and downs. I am not going to be able to be 100% all the time, I need support just like everyone else but I know I have it in me to be successful! And so do you!



Have you been having a rough go of it? Then let this be the time that you start to feel better about yourself, let’s work through this together, we can do it! We can be successful! I promise that no matter what is happening good or bad with my weight I will continue to write I believe that this also contributed to my lackadaisical attitude I just didn’t write about it didn’t verbalize what I was feeling or doing. This blog is very therapeutic for me, I feel like I have someone to answer to at the end of the day. So that’s why the absence I will do better, thank you for sticking with me!



Valinda

One day . . .

One day I will be gone from this earth, what I have done while I was here will be my legacy.  I want to be remembered for being a good wife and mother, I want to be known for my kindness, love and compassion.  I want all those in my life that I love to know that I love them fiercely, with my whole being.

I don't think I am known for these things yet, I am changing this now, I will be the person I want to be regardless of what others think or say, one day they too will meet their maker and will they be happy with the choices they made? 

I will not live with regrets any longer, my God is strong and powerful and kind and forgiving, I am opening up my heart to him now, a heart that has been closed to his word for far too long.  I pray that he will enter and dwell in my heart forever. . . .

Valinda