We all know how easy it is to get off track and start going the wrong way. Well, to be completely honest, I got off track recently. My lowest weight was 191.8 lbs since the start of my journey. This was my weight as of August 2nd. Today I weighed in at 208.8 lbs! Why the exclaimation mark? Why do I sound happy? Because, just 14 days ago I was up at 217 lbs. :( I know, aweful. But the good news is I got tired of feeling icky again and regained control. Now you might be wondering how I got off track with my weight loss. Let me explain.
I teach 9 classes every week at the Y. Yes, you read that right, 9 classes every week! Here is my class schedule:
Monday: 10am-10:45am- AOA(Active Older Adults- a low impact class that focuses on light cardio and weight and resistance training)
11am-11:45am- Water Aerobics(light cardio and resistance training with water noodles and water weights)
Tuesday: 5:30pm-6:20pm- Turbo Kick(High intensity choreographed cardio kickboxing)
Wednesday: 9am-9:50am- Turbo Kick
10am-10:45- AOA
11am-11:45am- Water Aerobics
Thursday: 5:30pm-6:20pm- Turbo Kick
Friday: 9am-9:50am- Turbo Kick
10am-10:45am- Water Aerobics
So if you do the math, that's 7 hours and 5 minutes of teaching per week. Plus, I do about 3-4 hours of personal workouts on my own at home ranging from Turbo down to strength training and stretching.
So, if I'm getting in 10+ hours of exercise a week, how on earth did I gain 25 lbs? It's simple. I stopped caring about eating the right foods. I stopped eating to live and started living to eat. There are no excuses for why I started eating the wrong foods. I just saw something I wanted and rather than thinking about my goals, I thought about how yummy it would be for the time being. I didn't think about how it would negatively effect me. Then there was the day when I saw 217 on the scale. My heart sunk! I remembered how difficult it was to lose 90 lbs and then how easy it was to gain 25 of it back, and in such a short time.
This happens to all of us. What did I do to change it? I stopped eating my kids' Halloween candy for starters. I stopped drinking soda again and stopped eating fast food again, with the exception of 1-2 times a week. When I do get fast food, I choose the healthier options again. I started drinking my Shakeology every single day instead of only 2-3 times per week. Wow, I think that was the biggest change right there.
The main thing to remember is that if you get off track, only you can make up your mind to get back on track. When I went to Indy to hear Chalene Johnson speak and she said, "Just decide. Flip the switch and that moment will be your catalyst!" that's when I made the decision to get back in the 100's and never get back into the 200's. I said goodbye to the 200's before and I'm going to do it again, but this time for good! All you have to do is make the decision to make the change that needs to happen in your life and decide NOT to look back! So, what are you waiting for? Just JUMP!
I'm here for help, advice, or just someone to talk to when you're feeling lost. Feel free to message me anytime! My email is lynnbiggestloser@gmail.com.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
My Evening with Chalene Johnson!
I got to spend Thursday night, November 4th, 2010, with Chalene Johnson! Chalene is the creator of Turbo Jam, Turbo Fire, ChaLEAN Extreme, Turbo Kick, Hip Hop Hustle, and Piyo. I have personally had the privelege to try all of these formats and they're flipping awesome! This blog is going to highlight most of the notes I took Thursday night, as well as some of my takes from that evening. You're more than welcome to share this with your downline if you're also a Beachbody coach or are involved with any other MLM. In fact, the information she shared with us could really be utilized by anyone looking for success and discipline in their life. Here are my notes. I'll try to go in order of everything she said and how I wrote it in my notebook, but if it doesn't make sense to you like it did to me when I wrote it, feel free to message me so I can explain. Anything that I add on my own I will use parentheses.
Principles of Success and Discipline
~Make a list of 10 things you wnat to achieve. Do this at least annually, however you will see more success with this if it is done weekly. Chalene does this every Tuesday morning at 5:30am with her group called the 3%ers.
~When you create your to do list, make it count towards your list of "10". Put a star next to the things that get others done and do them first so you will be more productive.
~Fall in love with the way you feel and make it a lifestyle.
~Don't make promises you can't keep.
(Chalene talked about her 3%ers group and that every Tuesday they're given a difficult task to complete by their next meeting, ie., one of the members were given the task to prepare and present a speech at a toastmasters meeting. If the member doesn't complete their task that week, they're not allowed to come back to the group until they've completed this. Chalene explained that if you're a leader in whatever your business is and you have a member of your "group" that isn't completing their tasks, they don't get their prize for completing their task...the prize is you. This may sound like tough love, but if they really want your help, they'll start doing what they say they'll do. This goes back to when she says not to keep promises you can't keep.)
Myths related to success:
*They're just lucky
*If I fix this once, I'm good (You've got to manage whatever it is you fixed. This goes for weight loss, therapy, etc.)
*They're more organized than I am
*Inflexible
*Takes too much time
*Stunts Creativity
*Some people are just born with it
*They have more connections than I do
*They actually like to do it
(All of these are excuses! A great book to help cure your excusitis is The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz)
What's in it for you?
*Goals realized faster
*Confidence
*More free time
*Opportunity
*Sense of peace
Success = Happiness
Success is being in charge of your own schedule.
~If your goal doesn't end with "because it makes me happy," then it's not going to end with success.
Step 1:
Define priorities, then your goals.
~Write out, ON PAPER, your top 3 priorities.
What are your goals now and do they reflect your priorities?
Step 2:
Decide. Flip the switch.
That moment will be your catalyst. "Today is the day!"
Step 3:
Behave as though you believe.
~Behave the way you know successful people behave.
~Believe that you deserve it!
Step 4:
Fire your old coach!
~Your current coach is in your head. It's the thing that makes you have any negative thoughts or doubt. Your new coach is entirely positive.
~Everytime something negative creeps into your mind, flip that switch again. Brainwash yourself positive! Make it a habit!
~Start coaching yourself because you're your own winning team!
~No excuses!
~No negotiation!
Step 5:
Accountability
~Just decide what you're going to do!
~Tell someone what it is- DECLARE IT! Do this verbally and ask that person to hold you to your word.(Remember, you can't make a promise you can't keep. Once you speak this out loud, you've promised them and yourself.)
~You said it, now you gotta do it!
~Tell someone who you know you might let down if you fail. You won't want to fail them.
Who are you going to make your accountability declaration to?
Step 6:
Invest in your dream. Don't be cheap with your business!
~To run your business, have business tools.
*Smart phone
*Computer
*Personal development tools- it pays you back!
-Car Smarts(http://chalenejohnson.com/carsmart/)
~Become a student of success.
~An expert is willing to share with you their failures and successes.
Step 7:
Delegate or Die
Delegate: to give authority, empower.
~Stop being a control freak!
~Stop being stingy because you're already paying yourself when you could be applying yourself in your business.
(Chalene talked about sometimes taking the small things that take too much time and delegating them out or hiring someone. She said that she used to spend 3 hrs a day 3-4 times a week just doing laundry. When she hired someone to start doine her laundry, she was more productive in her business and it paid off financially. You may have to invest now in something but it WILL pay off. Guess what I'll be looking for these next few weeks? A high school student who wants to make some cash doing laundry! LOL)
Step 8:
Jump NOW! Just go for it!
~Whatever fear you have, don't let it deter you.
~The longer you wait, the more fear will creep in. Just do it! JUMP!
(Your fears may be public speaking, google toastmasters to help overcome that fear.)
Step 9:
Feel the fear and do it anyways!
Step 10:
Perservere!
~Keep your head forward and keep going.
~Don't worry about others opinions of you .
~Perservere in a way that is in line with your priorities.
Step 11:
Goals and your daily to-do list.
~2-3 things that must be done today!
~The rest would be great if you get them done, but can wait if necessary.
~Start an accountability group. Be willing to tell the group when they're doing something that doesn't line up with their priorities. Expect the same the other way around.
~To-do list should always be on your phones!
(Chalene uses an iPhone and the app she uses is Todoodle do-$3.99. The app I personally downloaded and LOVE is PriorityMatrix and was free.)
Chalene's "role model" is Brian Tracy. Check out http://www.briantracy.com/.
~Your job is to make your spouse feel like the center of the universe. Be his/her biggest fan, even when you're mad.
~Try to find a way to bring your spouse along with you to spend time together.
K, that's all I got. There was so much more, but I could only write so fast. I would've loved to get some video, but they told us at the beginning no video would be allowed. At the end I got to take a picture with Chalene and she signed my Round 42 case and also a Car Smarts case I got at the event. She is truely amazing, hilarious, and beautiful, inside and out. I had waited to meet her since January 2008 and am so glad to have finally met her. The fact that she made Turbo Jam and I saw it on the infomercial that day has helped me completely transform my whole life. Anyone who knew me before that has no idea how much I have changed. I love my life and the changes I've made, I wouldn't change any of it for anything!
Principles of Success and Discipline
~Make a list of 10 things you wnat to achieve. Do this at least annually, however you will see more success with this if it is done weekly. Chalene does this every Tuesday morning at 5:30am with her group called the 3%ers.
~When you create your to do list, make it count towards your list of "10". Put a star next to the things that get others done and do them first so you will be more productive.
~Fall in love with the way you feel and make it a lifestyle.
~Don't make promises you can't keep.
(Chalene talked about her 3%ers group and that every Tuesday they're given a difficult task to complete by their next meeting, ie., one of the members were given the task to prepare and present a speech at a toastmasters meeting. If the member doesn't complete their task that week, they're not allowed to come back to the group until they've completed this. Chalene explained that if you're a leader in whatever your business is and you have a member of your "group" that isn't completing their tasks, they don't get their prize for completing their task...the prize is you. This may sound like tough love, but if they really want your help, they'll start doing what they say they'll do. This goes back to when she says not to keep promises you can't keep.)
Myths related to success:
*They're just lucky
*If I fix this once, I'm good (You've got to manage whatever it is you fixed. This goes for weight loss, therapy, etc.)
*They're more organized than I am
*Inflexible
*Takes too much time
*Stunts Creativity
*Some people are just born with it
*They have more connections than I do
*They actually like to do it
(All of these are excuses! A great book to help cure your excusitis is The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz)
What's in it for you?
*Goals realized faster
*Confidence
*More free time
*Opportunity
*Sense of peace
Success = Happiness
Success is being in charge of your own schedule.
~If your goal doesn't end with "because it makes me happy," then it's not going to end with success.
Step 1:
Define priorities, then your goals.
~Write out, ON PAPER, your top 3 priorities.
What are your goals now and do they reflect your priorities?
Step 2:
Decide. Flip the switch.
That moment will be your catalyst. "Today is the day!"
Step 3:
Behave as though you believe.
~Behave the way you know successful people behave.
~Believe that you deserve it!
Step 4:
Fire your old coach!
~Your current coach is in your head. It's the thing that makes you have any negative thoughts or doubt. Your new coach is entirely positive.
~Everytime something negative creeps into your mind, flip that switch again. Brainwash yourself positive! Make it a habit!
~Start coaching yourself because you're your own winning team!
~No excuses!
~No negotiation!
Step 5:
Accountability
~Just decide what you're going to do!
~Tell someone what it is- DECLARE IT! Do this verbally and ask that person to hold you to your word.(Remember, you can't make a promise you can't keep. Once you speak this out loud, you've promised them and yourself.)
~You said it, now you gotta do it!
~Tell someone who you know you might let down if you fail. You won't want to fail them.
Who are you going to make your accountability declaration to?
Step 6:
Invest in your dream. Don't be cheap with your business!
~To run your business, have business tools.
*Smart phone
*Computer
*Personal development tools- it pays you back!
-Car Smarts(http://chalenejohnson.com/carsmart/)
~Become a student of success.
~An expert is willing to share with you their failures and successes.
Step 7:
Delegate or Die
Delegate: to give authority, empower.
~Stop being a control freak!
~Stop being stingy because you're already paying yourself when you could be applying yourself in your business.
(Chalene talked about sometimes taking the small things that take too much time and delegating them out or hiring someone. She said that she used to spend 3 hrs a day 3-4 times a week just doing laundry. When she hired someone to start doine her laundry, she was more productive in her business and it paid off financially. You may have to invest now in something but it WILL pay off. Guess what I'll be looking for these next few weeks? A high school student who wants to make some cash doing laundry! LOL)
Step 8:
Jump NOW! Just go for it!
~Whatever fear you have, don't let it deter you.
~The longer you wait, the more fear will creep in. Just do it! JUMP!
(Your fears may be public speaking, google toastmasters to help overcome that fear.)
Step 9:
Feel the fear and do it anyways!
Step 10:
Perservere!
~Keep your head forward and keep going.
~Don't worry about others opinions of you .
~Perservere in a way that is in line with your priorities.
Step 11:
Goals and your daily to-do list.
~2-3 things that must be done today!
~The rest would be great if you get them done, but can wait if necessary.
~Start an accountability group. Be willing to tell the group when they're doing something that doesn't line up with their priorities. Expect the same the other way around.
~To-do list should always be on your phones!
(Chalene uses an iPhone and the app she uses is Todoodle do-$3.99. The app I personally downloaded and LOVE is PriorityMatrix and was free.)
Chalene's "role model" is Brian Tracy. Check out http://www.briantracy.com/.
~Your job is to make your spouse feel like the center of the universe. Be his/her biggest fan, even when you're mad.
~Try to find a way to bring your spouse along with you to spend time together.
K, that's all I got. There was so much more, but I could only write so fast. I would've loved to get some video, but they told us at the beginning no video would be allowed. At the end I got to take a picture with Chalene and she signed my Round 42 case and also a Car Smarts case I got at the event. She is truely amazing, hilarious, and beautiful, inside and out. I had waited to meet her since January 2008 and am so glad to have finally met her. The fact that she made Turbo Jam and I saw it on the infomercial that day has helped me completely transform my whole life. Anyone who knew me before that has no idea how much I have changed. I love my life and the changes I've made, I wouldn't change any of it for anything!
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