The holidays are meant for getting together with friends and family, reminiscing about the year that has passed and setting goals for the New Year to come. These gatherings always seem to be around food and drink. Being disciplined sometimes just isn't enough, when tempted with such goodies and treats. What about those people for them it does means *life or death* - not just a few extra pounds? The *life or death* I mention is, heart disease, or diabetic, or allergies to certain ingredients that may be hidden (not intentionally) in a recipe. So they HAVE TO be disciplined. For the person who may be training or on a weight loss mission, *just one* treat, may turn into 3 or 4. What do you do if this happens to you?? Completely fall off the wagon, and give up? No way!!! Jump back on that wagon, you just went over a bump that's all. It's over and done with, you can't change it now, but you can change what is up ahead. Which fork in the road do you decide to take from this point forward? It's only up to the individual. Stop beating yourself up and move forward, not to worry tomorrow is another day!
This week for me was my weigh-in complete with measurements, body fat composition and bikini shots. Wow! Not liking the bikini shot so much as of yet. Surprising tho for me was the fact that we have *found* my diet. I didn't know what this meant until it was explained to me. When burning calories, you want your body to take from the fat stores and not the muscle. The calculations of the *numbers* showed that my body fat had gone down but my body mass (muscle) had fluctuated by only 1/2 % which is good. As of last week - I was down many inches over all, plus 26 pounds in total since my first weigh-in. (I lost 5 lbs since last month - I had actually hoped for 10) When I look at the photo shots - all I see is what needs to be done still - I know there is progress, and I know that my arms are more defined (which I like), but it is still hard for me to see what others do. I won't lie it is a compliment when people in class comment on my arms and back, but it still is hard to take the compliment. I want to be gracious, but I am *learning* how to just say *thankyou*.
I did have an *ah ha* moment yesterday. We were having dinner and my sons told me to lift my shirt so they could see my *abs*. This came from earlier in the day when they asked if I HAD abs? The compliment came in the form of an odd remark - *My mum has abs*, my son said to his girlfriend. Then my son told me he thought it was just wrong for his mum to have a stomach like that - that he liked me when I was *chunky*. I didn't know what to say - he thought I was *chunky* before?? This goes back to one of my other posts in how we perceive ourselves to what others perceive us - and how happy we are within ourselves. At the same time they also gave my husband a bad time and asked, *How he felt that his wife had a 6 pack and he didn't*? Funny thing again, I am not seeing the *six-pack* that they mentioned - but I will take the compliment, even tho they used the word, *chunky*!! This will lead into another post in regards to change and how some people don't like change.
As for this month ~ it will be a short month in regards to weigh-in and measurements. January will be the start of more weight training and possibly less cardio for a while - depending how my body reacts over Christmas and how much temptation I can ward off.
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