Launch Day –You control you!

            Today is the day.  You will make a commitment that your long term fitness and wellness is more important than the over indulgence which has begun to define the holiday season.  From Thanksgiving to the new year you will encounter family meals, work parties, cookie exchanges, school parties, church functions and much more!  There will be many opportunities to splurge.  Not this year!  This year you will have a goal and you will focus on attaining that goal while selectively deciding when and how to indulge. 

           

You are in control of you, period.  Since the age of 5 no one has “made your plate” for you.  You control what goes in your mouth.  Since the age of 2, no one has spooned food into your cheeks.  At any meal you attend, if you are asked to bring an item, you are in control of the ingredients that go into that master piece.  Bottom line, you control you.  What happens in the next 45 days is no one else’s fault, you do not get off the hook because you HAD to eat anything.  Got it?  Good.  Let’s move on.

           

Find a sticky note, scrap paper, pretty paper, ugly paper, it doesn’t matter and write one of the following things:

           

“I will maintain my measurements through January 1 because it will be worth it.”

            “I will lose 5 pounds by January 1 because it will be worth it.”

            “I will lose 1 inch in my hips (or waist) by January 1 because it will be worth it.

            Now, go weigh yourself or take your waist (at your belly button) and hip measurements (measurement tape comes together in front of your pubic bone), write these numbers on a separate slip of paper and put them in your wallet.  We will revisit them latter in this series.

Write your goal on multiple pieces of paper and post it in multiple locations.  DO NOT hide it.  Put it on the mirror in the bathroom, the rearview mirror in your car, your computer screen at work.  Don’t want others to see it?  Why, are you afraid of inspiring them?  If someone is going to harass you or sabotage you, they are the only ones who do not need to see these notes, otherwise – wallpaper the town!  This note will remind you of why you are controlling what happens through the holidays.

            From today through January 1, follow these blogs for workout ideas, recipes, motivation and education that will get you to your goal by January 1.  Feel free to look back in the archives to see other blogs that can inspire and motivate you to your goal!

            This holiday season is about being Thankful for what you have, the birth of Jesus and a New beginning on January 1.  Jesus came to this earth to be the ultimate sacrifice for us.  This Christmas season is about celebrating His birth, focus on Him and less on you and see what happens this Christmas.