Weight loss update.

[EroticySteve]

Originally Posted by Raven

Congratulations, everyone, who has started the life change. For me, it's been an uphill battle....but, determination and staying the course has been real nice. I bought my first pair of size ten jeans the other day.....

Congrats to you too Raven.

Peaches, it's not so bad. I think that most would agree that it's a state of mind. Diets and workout products even gimmicky ones can be effective if you get your mind and body into the right state.

I think I read a Tony Robbins book a few years ago that really summed it up.

You need to associate death and illness and disease with unhealthy things, unhealthy things that you may even be addicted to. Food in the massive quantities that the Western World has been taught is okay is a poison. Add to that a very sedentary lifestyle and of course you have a recipe for disaster.

When you move from gluttony to eating for survival and overall health the body will respond positively.

I think goal setting is a part of it too. If you set your goals too low and reach them without setting new ones, your motivation may be lost and your end goal ultimately sabotaged.

If you set your goals too high and don't get into the right state of mind and body and spirit you'll lose faith and confidence in your own abilities and may sabotage current and future efforts to achieve goals.

I suppose that it's also important to realize that success isn't always achieved the first time with anything. Anyone who makes something look easy has probably tried it a hundred times before without fanfare, you're happening to see them at their shining moment.