Biggest Loser and thoughts about my journey

WOOHOO The Biggest Loser is back! I love this show. It continues to inspire me on my journey. I know I have to do it. I saw those pictures that the doctor put up of all that fat in the contestants bodies and I thought, "man that is what I looked and still look like inside. YUCK!" I know that the fat inside is reducing, I can see and feel it, but I still have a LONG way to go.

I do this each season, I try to find a female that their starting weight is the same as mine was when I started this journey. So the one that was the closest to what I weighed when I started is a girl named Amy (she is on the red team, not the other one I think the other Amy is on the purple team). Anyway, I try to keep in front of them. I know they are doing this full throttle, but it keeps my competitive spirit up. I also know I am much lower than them right now so it isn't really fair, but at the same time I feel like it is. Okay, so I am whacked! lol But it make sense to me! lol

I also looked at Stacey, the girl that got voted off this week and she is now at 175 pounds, which is almost exactly where I am right now (5 pounds difference). And that frustrates me. lol I know it shouldn't and someone put it as the carnival mirror effect. I know everyone's body type is different. My problem is I am so short and I carry almost all of my weight in my hips, stomach and bootie. So I look WAY bigger than Stacey does in that area and wonder how in the heck I weigh as much as she does and don't look as good as she does! lol It is annoying, but I just have to see how my pants are feeling and not worry about it.

In fact, speaking of pants, I tried to wear my black dress pants to work on Tuesday and I had to change my outfit because they were just TOOOO big! I really could not keep them up or that they would even look even close to being presentable! It was a great feeling. I just have to keep going and eventually I will make it to where I want to be.

I am glad Biggest Loser is back! I love the stories of how and why they got there and it makes me think and reflect of how and why I got to where I am. I think it is important. I am glad that I probably am not big enough to be on the show anymore. But I am very glad that they do the show to help others be inspired to change their lives.

I hope that I am and will be an inspiration to people. If I can do it you can do it. But you have to be ready, really ready, mind and body and commitment to do it. I know for years I have said "I want to lose weight", but I wasn't ready to do what it takes to make it happen. It is so easy to say you want to do it, but an ENTIRELY different thing to be ready to do it and actually DO IT. It is so easy to take some "magic pill or drink some shake", kindof like those get rich schemes, except this one is the "get skinny scheme". They don't work permanently. The only one that does is the good old fashioned one of eating healthy and exercising. Calories in vs. calories out. That's what they teach on Biggest Loser, that's what they teach on my favorite weight loss website http://www.sparkpeople.com, and it's what most doctors teach. The only people touting the drink or pill are those that want you to buy it so they make the money. They know if they can get you do it this time, they can get you to do something else when you gain it back (and some). They do not teach you how to change your habits and lifestyle, they only teach you how to take a pill. I have spoke with many, many people and every person that has been able to lose the weight and keep it off have all done it through healthy eating and exercise. I am sorry if this hurts anyone's feelings by me saying this, but it is the truth, the cold hard facts are this is the only way to lose it and permanently keep it off. I know I am going to have to do this forever. And if you want to do it, you have to be ready to make that commitment for a lifetime, not just until you lose the weight. If you think that way then when you have reached your goal and you go back to eating the way you were your weight is going to go right back to where it was with it. This has never been a diet to me, it has always been a new healthy lifestyle. I don't like it when people ask me what "diet" I am on, because I am not on a diet, I am living a new healthy lifestyle. It is in the way I eat, the way I exercise and even the way I think. If there is something I like to eat then I try to find the way to make it healthy or healthier. If not, then I can still have it, but it has to fit in my calorie range and I have to realize I can only have a serving of it (not two or three because it tastes soooooo good) and I can only have it today and not again tomorrow.

Anyway, I am done with my soapbox. I hope that someone wants to make the real commitment to do it or that they are inspired to try something or do something new and healthy for them. It can be done. Just do it! Now go out and make today count!