Yesterday my good friend Valerie and I were talking about our seize-the-day attitude. Her motto is "Today is not my tomorrow", mine is "Tomorrow is another day". It reminded me of the verse from Matthew 6:34 "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own".
I mentioned in my profile that I am a bodybugg user. For those of you who do not know what that is; a bodybugg is a monitoring device that you wear that tracks how many steps you take in a day and how many calories you are burning. I have an account online that I download that information to and record the calories that I am eating as well. To lose weight the idea is very simple. You have to burn more calories than you eat. Each day I have a goal to burn 1000 more calories than I eat. I have a little display (looks like a watch) or I can go online and see where I am with my goal at anytime. What I like about my bodybugg is ONE: It is working; I lost more than 8 pounds in my first 3 weeks, and TWO: I feel like I am accomplishing something every day. Not only for myself as I burn calories and lose weight, but for my husband and family since I burn a bunch of calories by making myself busy around the house; vacuuming, doing laundry, dishes, making beds, etc. Sitting in front of the TV...not so much.
I made the decision to make this weight loss program only positive. If there's a day where I don't meet my goal, or I decide I want to have seconds on dinner or a brownie for dessert, I'm not going to beat myself up. It's not worth it. Tomorrow is another day. If I don't meet my goal today, I'll just try again tomorrow to meet it. I'm motivated and I'm positive about actually meeting my weight goal for the first time in my life. So why be negative and beat myself up about it? Tomorrow is another day. I start fresh with my 1000 calorie goal.
I'm off to walk now. I generally burn over 400 calories walking about 3 miles.
Live for today....nothing positive can come from worrying about tomorrow.
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That's great that your blogging. It's a lot of fun. Have a great day....and keep up the good work. And I'll see you at size 8! Hee-hee.
Love ya! Val
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