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Getting Real About My New Year’s Resolutions

January 25, 2012 By Elizabeth 9 Comments

There's something about the promise of a New Year that makes people think they can change their entire life, right? I stopped making New Year's Resolutions years ago, because I was just setting myself up for disappointment come New Year's Eve. "I'm going to lose 80 pounds this year! That's only 6 pounds a month, every month, no problem!" "I'm going to quit smoking this year! I'm sure once I stop, I'll never want another cigarette again!" "I'm going to start exercising this year! Once I start, I'm sure I'll get hooked and want to do it every day!" The problem with those resolutions is that I'm not finding a secret motivation to really do any of them. So I was thrilled when I was chosen through Inspiring Social Media to participate in the Trop50 True Resolutions campaign, celebrating the REAL reasons behind New Year's resolutions. A True Resolution is one that has a motivation behind it that you might not want to admit out loud. Like, you want to lose weight so your … [Read more...]

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Why I Didn’t Finish Optifast

May 2, 2011 By Elizabeth

A reader asked on Facebook whatever happened to me and the Optifast program. It was a 12 week program consisting of 12 weeks of nothing but Optifast liquid shakes, bars, and soup, then it was supposed to be 12 weeks transitioning back to real food. By week 9, I was begging them to let me eat. The thought of taking another swallow of a shake or another bite of a bar (I had given up on the soup almost immediately, it was disgusting) made me physically ill. I started skipping meal times because I couldn't bring myself to do it anymore. I stopped losing weight, naturally. The clinic behaviorist told me that my problem was I didn't NEED to lose weight. I wasn't there because my weight was literally going to kill me sometime soon if I didn't lose as much as possible as fast as possible. And for that reason, I wasn't as "motivated" as other participants. Well then. I somehow made it to week 12. In those 12 weeks, I lost exactly 9 pounds. I went from 204 to 195 and then my … [Read more...]

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Optifast Update – Week 5

November 19, 2010 By Elizabeth

I felt really good going into my Week 5 weigh-in. My jeans are loose and my underwear was starting to seem too big. I hopped up on the scale feeling pretty confident. My starting weight at the beginning of this program was 204.3. My weight on Tuesday, November 16th 2010 was... 194 Pounds! Woo hoo! I've lost my first 10 pounds!! It works out to exactly 2 pounds a week for 5 weeks! I had Kaitlyn take this photo: Even though I'm losing weight, it's still a challenge for me to get all 6 products in most days. I'm starting to think that for my body, 5 products is enough, but everyone at Optifast keeps pushing me to get 6. I just nod my head, but in the end, it has to be about what I can do. And what I can do, that certainly seems to be working, is get 5 products in a day. I'm not worried at all about Thanksgiving next week. I'll have my regular products in the morning, then count Thanksgiving dinner as two meals, and if I still need another product or two after … [Read more...]

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