What area of my life needs a new LENS?



Well I am back..with a new lens and REFOCUSED on the goal. From the last post you know I was struggling because my weight loss journey had kinda stalled. So I had to apply what I call the 3 Rs..Reflect, Revamp, and Refocus.

I stopped to reflect on what was getting in the way of me making continuous progress on my weight loss journey. Also, I had to reflect on how I was sabotaging myself and take a real honest look at the food choices and eating plans I was now utilizing.

After reflecting, I decided to revamp my weight loss program which I shared with you all in the last blog. I went back to the eating basics..meats, fruits, vegetables, drinking a gallon of water daily, journal my foods and calories. As far as exercise, I got in 2 workouts a day 3 days of the week and kept count of the calories I was burning. Finally, the biggest revamp not weighing myself every day, but now I weigh every 3 days.

Finally, the most important thing is to refocus on my weight loss goal. I constantly envision myself at the goal weight or size I would like to see myself. I go to bed already focused on what I am going to eat the next day and what workouts I am going to do. I know in order for me to finish, I have to remain focused and not let anything cloud my LENS. Also, I could do none of this without the word of God leading me and giving me strength. My daily read is from  Prayers That Avail Much by Germaine Copeland...The prayer I read is titled "Renewing the Mind". I find this prayer to be particular beneficial, because this whole weight loss process requires a renewing of the mind if it is to be permanent.

Now let me just say it is hard to do the refocus stage if you have not done the other two. You have to reflect so that you can know what to revamp in an effort to refocus the LENS on the ultimate goal. Now this blog is of course about my weight loss journey. However, when I write these blogs I write them in the hopes that you can apply whatever I am talking about to other areas of your life. So having said that, ask yourself the question "What area of my life needs a new lens?" I encourage you to ask the question and then apply the 3 Rs..reflect, revamp, and refocus.  If you don't mind, please leave a comment sharing how you will apply the 3 Rs to your life.

Today I shall be transformed by the renewing of my mind, that I may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Love y'all and thanks for the support. BTW pass the link for the blog to others. Many thanks to my awesome trainer Kenya Crooks..www.thekenyacrooks.com

Down But Not Out!!!

Before May 2010

After May 2011

After sitting and watching the Heat vs. Mavs...it got me thinking about how the Heat must feel right now. Yeah they lost..but the great thing about life, they get another chance next year. What does that have to do with me and my weight loss journey you say..well these past two weeks for me have been hard trying to get to my 100 lb loss mark.  I have been at a plateau for several weeks and seems like no matter what I did nothing was working. 

So I said let me think about the things I may have been doing to sabotage myself...Well first off all I can say I have probably stressed myself out by trying to hard, instead of just doing what I know works and just go with that. Instead, I have been trying different diets or eating plans (Eat right for your blood type, etc).

Also, I consider myself a serial WEIGHER...what does that mean, I weigh myself everyday...sometimes 3 times a day..which leads me to either get depressed about not loosing any weight or just 1 pound. I want to see the kind of numbers I saw when I first started loosing weight..2-3 pounds every 2 days...but my mom said you have to realize your body is not the same as it was then. OK so most of the fat/weight that remains to be lost is in my stomach area....I mean damn Kenya has us doing 1000 sometimes 2000 ab exercises and it seems like the fat just sits there fighting back. Plus I started doing two a days, and off course as soon as got back from walking in the morning I would weigh myself, and get upset if I had not lost a pound after walking 5 miles.

Well I took this weekend to reflect and decided I was going to change somethings to hopefully help me keep it moving to my ultimate goal...FYI that is not a certain weight, but a certain look.

• stop weighing myself everyday (Wednesday and Sunday only)
• go back to the basics of eating (calorie counting for one)
• accepting what the scale says and not letting it interfere with my mood (see bullet one)
• continue doing two a days as many times as possible
• journal my foods daily (helps with bullet 2)

As the title of this blog states, I am down but not out. I have to remember that I have come a long way in this journey and should be proud of myself for making it this far. The pictures of above speak to my progress and transformation thus far).  Now as Kenya would say...Let's finish!