Tip of the day. 

Begin to write down the different things that have worked for you in the past.  

Write down a list of all the main things you are doing right now. 

Look at each thing on the list and ask yourself 'what are the 20% of those things on your list that are repaying you with an 80% result?''

Consider that the remaining 80% of items on your list are only returning you a 20% result.

Do you still need these things in your life?  Can you replace them with better actions?
 
Don’t think, 'Dieting', think ‘Lifestyle' .

Remember people quit diets but will continue a lifestyle, and releasing excess weight loss, then weight management, needs to be consistent, something you will ENJOY doing for life.  The lifestyle balance we need should not be a struggle we can only manage to do for a short time, something we 'bust' from, as we do a diet.
We do not want to return to habits, that no longer support the goals we want for ourselves.
We are after consistency, living, and enjoying life.
We can love ourselves healthy and naturally slim.


Try not to focus on what has stopped working.

Focus on what works.  

Personally I don’t tend to read the apidexin reviews and diet pill reviews, because I know what does not work for me is inactivity and overeating and what will work is healthy eating, portion control and as I am short of time I need to exercise hard, when I do exercise.
I provide a positive forum for those who would like to use one and I am engaged in positive forums myself, as I believe in group support.  

That is what is working for me. 'What works for you'?
 

I am interested to hear what worked for you in the past, you can share your own thoughts here in the comments section or in the Artslim Forum.

Have a great day, and please follow me on facebook
 

Making perfect cents - the surprising result of healthy living posted about an hour ago in the artslim forum,  by Meralo 
If you are looking for a forum with an emphasis on allowing healthy living rather than  dieting and the scale you use is the one where you strive to have a life in balance, then Meralo and I would love to have you jon us in the NEW artslim forum.

Practical self paid Inner self a visit today. As one of the facets of my personality, Practical self was neglected and ignored for far too long...you see it’s hardly practical to shove massive amounts of empty calories down your throat while living a sedentary life, and I wasn’t in the mood to listen...so I ignored her.

Today Inner self wanted to listen.

“Hello, what have you got there?”

Practical self looked down at the 2 slips of paper in her hand. From where Inner self was, they looked very much like cashier slips. Practical self held them up, “I wanted to show you something.”

“Ok, great, what is it?”

“Well, you see this slip here?” Inner self nodded, intrigued in spite of herself. “This was from the McDonald’s meal you bought for the family about a month ago.”

“Oh yes, I remember that, you must have cleaned out my bag. That was our once every 3 months treat when I cave in to the kid’s requests for those blinking Happy Meals. You know I had the Crispy Chicken Deluxe Burger, and was shocked to find out that it holds almost twice the number of calories of the Quarter Pounder Deluxe. I figured that out later, is that what you wanted to show me?”

“No. I want you to look at the whole slip, every item ordered, the money tendered and the change returned.” Inner self gave Practical self an impatient look, but she wanted to give her a chance to explain, so she took the slip in her own hands.

“What do you see?” Practical self asked.

“Uh, 3 Cheeseburger Happy Meals with Apple juices, 1 Quarterpounder Deluxe medium meal with Coke Light, 1 Crispy Chicken Deluxe Burger.”

“What else?”

“The whole meal cost 131.90. What is the point of this conversation? I’m a bit lost!”
Practical self didn’t often get a moment to shine and she was dragging this out a bit. But even she knew when to bring it to a close. She held up the second slip of paper and read from it.

“3 queen pineapples (very sweet at this time of the year),
½ kg baby carrots
1kg gem squash
2 pkts peeled and diced pumpkin
1 kg new potatoes
1 punnet spanish tomatoes
1 english cucumber
16 bananas
1 kg golden delicious apples
1 10kg pocket of potatoes
1 box of clementines (36 in total)
1 bag of oranges (24 in total)
Do you remember this?” Inner self nodded. “You bought this on Saturday, for the week ahead, and it’s really quite a mountain of food don’t you think?” Again she nodded. “Here, have a look at what it cost you.”

Inner self took the paper and stared. It made perfect sense now; the fresh produce had cost the same as the meal at McDonald’s.

1 unhealthy, artery clogging, trans fat yielding, tasteless, rubbish meal had cost the same as it cost to feed a family of 5 for more than a week on a healthy, nutritious diet. And there would be mountains of leftovers for freezing and eating at a later stage. Inner self had always heard that a lifestyle like this saved you a fortune, not only in health bills but in actual cash in your wallet...but it hadn’t been made clear until that moment.

If it’s hard to make the choice to move towards healthy living because you like McDonalds (or insert the name of any fast food chain here), then surely you would think twice when it hits your pocket so hard? Fast food may be convenient..but cheap it’s not!

(SPECIAL NOTE: I use a different currency to the US$ or AU$ but I'm pretty sure you would have similar results if you did this exercise) Carol Willis
"In striving for perfection, we often achieve excellence."

You are INVITED, to Join Me In My Journey,    This is NOT a substitute for a great personal trainer and I recommend Michelle Bridges, 12 week body transformation. 


I just want to begin my next 12-week journey no later than the first week of June, I may even begin it next week. so I’m not waiting for round 2 of 12wbt to start for me to start out the way I want to continue. I also want to take my focus of the scales once more and combine a mixture of intuitive eating into my program of self nurture.

I skipped a lot of sleep and exercise these past two days setting up a new domain name and focus for one of my blogs. This is the beginning of what I hope will be a fun positive blog, helpful reference self help website and carer's forum. 

Thank you to those who helped me brain storm the domain name dementia-drive.com.

Thank you in advance to everyone who will help promote this new blog/web/forum.

It is time I did some of the 'Carer care for youself', work..

About to shut done the computer and enjoy an active afternoon with Reg.

 

PRESS RELEASE:-Please share this information

:-Press release, New carer, forum  in your  blog and contacts.

NEW Kathy Shell Blog, Web and FORUM, Dementia-Drive.com

 

Osteoporosis is very common, affecting one in three women and one in twelve men over the age of 50. By my age, more than 50% of women, including myself, have Osteoporosis. Take a look at that picture above and you will know why it is unreasonable to ask a woman with osteoporosis to give waist measurments in a slimming forum as evidence that she is slimming.  Given I have three spinal compression fractures I am rather pleased with the size of my waist, but it is posible for it to expand and for me to still be losing body fat. This happened twice this year.

The weight bearing exercises I now do, helps guard me against further injury. The muscle I buld, also shows on the scales as a gain.  I cannot work in a slimming forum where strengthening my body with muscle gain is seen as a negative and this is why I need to work away from most slimmig forums., it is not because I do not support and encourage slimming forum members to achieve the healthy goals they set themselves. 
One size doesn't fit all, in clothes or support forums.  :-) 

With the knowledge that I have osteoporosis and the compression fractures of the spine that follow with it, you will understand why I do not want to slim at any cost. I do not want to be involved in forums where I would get pats on the back for losing weight when I am after a healthy body composition and understand that the scales do not measure this.

I do have a great group of people I can work with for support and my gym instructors but these are in paid fitness programs. That is why I started my ‘loving ourselves, forum 

Existing forums are great for those who want to set weight goals, it is time for me to move on to fitness goals and see increased metabolism, excess fat release as a side benefit, not my exclusive focus.

 Bathroom scales measure weight, they do not differentiate between lean healthy tissue and excess body fat. 

Scales do not consistently show evidence and reward the people who are focusing on building a fit healthy body, protecting themselves from osteoporosis by ensuring they do not lose muscle as they lose weight and gain age.

Many slimmers hit plateaus and weight stalls after having restricted calories and focused on achieving weight loss as a goal for a long time. Some look for answers outside themselves to raise their metabolism when the answer is within their own bodies.  As we lose weight through the loss of muscle, along with fat, we lower our metabolism until weight loss becomes difficult. Some of us, including myself find we have also decreased our bone density largely because of this muscle lose.

The answer for me came from learning to let go of my focus on the scales and concentrate on doing what I need to do to have a healthy body, which in turn allows me to lead the happy active life I love.

I am sliming, and I do weigh myself, but I am focussing on fitness and not the scales. Because of my fitness actions I am building healthy muscle and bone, I am releasing excess body fat and increasing my metabolism, once more.

I would love you to join me and others who want fitness, slimness, with no public focus on scales, in our ‘loving ourselves’, forum.   The forum is open to anyone interested in receiving and giving emotional support to those wanting weight management and fitness for life.

Contact Kathy for the password and link to join a friendly, no pressure, forum.