Never be content until you reach your goal!

Here I am, basking in the sun like a beached whale!! Since this picture I have lost 60 pounds but still have more to go to reach my goal. Some say its not good to keep a fat picture around to remind you, but I disagree! When I look at this, it keeps reminding me how big and hard it was to move with all this blubber! Also for me not looking at fat pictures makes me to happy that I am a reduced weight and get to complacent so I lose sight of the final weight I want to be at!
Always remember....... it is easier to keep your goal in sight by seeing where you have been!!

Always stay on track!!

I have said this before and I will say it till you tell me to shut up!! There is always someone that seems to delight in the fact that we don't do what we say. Sometimes it is people we work with, sometimes our "friends", it might be our family, or; dare I say it...YOURSELF!! Just as you set your goals in life, wife, kids, job you want; setting and staying on track with your health should be in your top five!! The goal I have set for myself is to be in the best health and weight I can! And I hope to inspire some of you or at least offer some hints and ways to help us all care about ourselves first and foremost!! Without your health, life is like rowing our boat in quicksand!
Eating good is so essential to losing weight and better health! I want to start including recipes that I think are great for our new life of great health! Please feel free to send your healthy favorites along with your comments!! Let's get out of the quicksand!

If you hit a bump in the road, take another path

One of the things I have learned about trying to lose weight and stay in shape is that it is a full time job! If one day you go off track, jumping back on is essential. Staying moving is very important, and I don' mean getting up to forage in the fridge! A bump in the road for me is sometimes not wanting to excersise or eating foods that I know I should not. Whatever your "bump" is, the most important thing is that you find a way around it to get to your goal!!