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Doing Hard Things

Doing hard things and having discipline pays off-

After my plateau breaker yesterday, I am down 2.2lbs πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

That’s a total of 15lbs since freaking September 20th-basically in 2.5 weeks 🀯🀯

Restoration Wellness says 20lbs in 45 days on their program but I have almost hit that in 2 weeks!!

It is amazing to me when you actually do a weight loss/wellness program with a professional who understands the body and is seeking to enhance total wellness NOT just weight loss, how the body responds! I have learned more in two weeks about weight loss and wellness and my body than in 30+ years of always trying to lose weight (since I started dieting in 5th grade 😭) and that includes successfully losing 150lbs and keeping most of it off for 10+ years.

But this is different and I’m not trying to sound like an ad, but if anyone feels like they’ve been chasing weight loss for far too long, I would absolutely check this program out. I don’t know if most of y’all remember but when I did the Jenny Craig program to lose my 150lbs, I never talked about it (not in the media or social media etc) bc it wasn’t necessarily something I felt proud of or like was the best thing. It worked but was solely weight loss. Not wellness.

But I am going to keep talking about this program bc I feel so good and am seeing such amazing results at every level that it’s truly astounding to me. I wish I’d lost my 150lbs this way. I wish I’d found this program decades ago.

And I’m so grateful to friends for sharing their journeys at Restoration and inspiring me to check them out. Hoping to pay it forward by doing the same.

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