Today marks two weeks exactly since I started. I also just finished the second set of deep cleanse days. I weighed myself this morning and am down another pound, so that's pretty cool. Some people in our group say to weigh and measure the first day, the 11th day and the 30th day only - others are weighing and measuring on a weekly basis. I'll follow the initial suggestion for the measurements & with the exception of my weigh in this morning (I just wanted to see what the result was after a binge day followed by two cleanse days) my next weigh in will also be on the 30th day.
It is official - I do NOT like the taste of Cleanse for Life - but understanding the benefits, I can suck it up and take it for two days.
The way the schedule works now, I'm on shakes for the rest of the 30 days, and I think I will cut out the BBB shakes until the next 14 days are over.
Overall (at the almost half way point) how am I feeling? Pretty good. I can say I am sleeping better and I think that for the most part I haven't been having any brutal cravings. I noticed yesterday at work that my double chin *is* shrinking (yay!) and the fit of my trousers is loosening up as well.
Based on how I am feeling and how I am doing at this time, I had planned to continue with this lifestyle change, but yesterday afternoon I spoke with the branch manager at the office I am going to (its official and being announced tomorrow morning in our staff meeting so I still can't tell anyone) and now knowing that I have the job (and will be starting my new schedule on the 25th of THIS month (eep!) It was cemented.
I will need to order some meal replacement bars so that I can have bars for dinner while I'm driving home. To start with, though, I will stick with the shakes (I have 6 canisters of shake mix in my cupboard right now!!) and have the shake at 5 when the branch doors close and then drive home in a not hungry state!
OK - time to walk the dog!
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I read somewhere (a very long time ago) that catch phrases, if not put together properly, can cause the opposite effect or thought from that which they actually intend - an example of that would be "don't drink and drive" - people chunk things out in their heads and negative phrases tend to be less impactful than positive ones. A few years after the initial catch phrase came out, the people who look at the psychology of selling came out with "arrive alive - drive sober." It really does make more of a positive impact, right?
Interesting thoughts sometimes come to me while I'm getting ready for work - maybe because usually I have just had a good walk and am in the process of doing something that feels pretty mindless. In any case, today's interesting thought was about the phrase "lose weight."
I started to look at the word "lose" and the connotations and feelings it raises inside me. Loss, fear, sadness, a feeling of need with no satisfaction... you get the point. So how can I rephrase this in my own head to make "losing weight" more palatable?
I work in a bank. People borrow money. People repay loans. People repay mortgages.
I decided that I need to start looking at the excess weight I am letting go of as something that I have "borrowed" from the universe (with interest! Ha ha ha) and that instead of losing weight, I am choosing to repay the loan of the weight I borrowed back to the universe. Instead of feeling like I am losing something, this concept makes me feel like I am repaying a loan.
And, as anyone who has ever repaid a loan or mortgage can tell you, the best feeling in the whole world is being debt free.
So there is is. My brilliant shower thought of the day. I am paying back the universe for the loan of the weight I have been borrowing. The universe can gift it to someone who needs it more than I do now. I look forward to being debt free!
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I read somewhere (a very long time ago) that catch phrases, if not put together properly, can cause the opposite effect or thought from that which they actually intend - an example of that would be "don't drink and drive" - people chunk things out in their heads and negative phrases tend to be less impactful than positive ones. A few years after the initial catch phrase came out, the people who look at the psychology of selling came out with "arrive alive - drive sober." It really does make more of a positive impact, right?
Interesting thoughts sometimes come to me while I'm getting ready for work - maybe because usually I have just had a good walk and am in the process of doing something that feels pretty mindless. In any case, today's interesting thought was about the phrase "lose weight."
I started to look at the word "lose" and the connotations and feelings it raises inside me. Loss, fear, sadness, a feeling of need with no satisfaction... you get the point. So how can I rephrase this in my own head to make "losing weight" more palatable?
I work in a bank. People borrow money. People repay loans. People repay mortgages.
I decided that I need to start looking at the excess weight I am letting go of as something that I have "borrowed" from the universe (with interest! Ha ha ha) and that instead of losing weight, I am choosing to repay the loan of the weight I borrowed back to the universe. Instead of feeling like I am losing something, this concept makes me feel like I am repaying a loan.
And, as anyone who has ever repaid a loan or mortgage can tell you, the best feeling in the whole world is being debt free.
So there is is. My brilliant shower thought of the day. I am paying back the universe for the loan of the weight I have been borrowing. The universe can gift it to someone who needs it more than I do now. I look forward to being debt free!
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