Doing Hard Things

Doing hard things and having discipline pays off-

After my plateau breaker yesterday, I am down 2.2lbs 🎉🎉🎉

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.

Comments

Jen's Before and Current

About halfway thru R1 (Phase 1) with my Restoration Wellness plan. Down 17lbs, which is crazy. I don't think I've ever lost more than 10lbs a month before, even when I was over 300lbs and ultimately lost 150lbs. It required a lot of thinking, planning, measuring, weighing, thinking about food all the time and being at the gym EVERY day. This is so much easier. I do want to get back in the gym, but on my time for my own wellness, not as simply a weight loss tool. But because I enjoy moving my body and being active. Completely different mindsets. My pics yet aren't as dramatic as Keith's, even though I've lost a few pounds more than him. But that's ok, enjoying the journey and progress not perfen and all that :) Starting Weight 262.4 Current Weight 245.4 (3 weeks progress)

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Product Review

Keith and I made a pact awhile ago to try new things. Every week we attempt to try one new thing we have previously never had, or been scared to try or whatever. And it's been awesome, we've been enjoying so many things that we've been missing out on, and Mairi of course loves anything LOL so she benefits from it as well. A few weeks ago while grocery shopping, I spotted this jar of Tikka Masala. I was like, hmm, that looks good and healthy and nice to have for the times I don't want to cook or whatever. I grabbed it, bought and promptly threw it in the back of my cupboard. Keith busted it out tonight, and made a FABULOUS chicken and quinoa dish (we are obsessed with quinoa, did you know it's like BREASTMILK? and you all know how i feel about that :P It's a complete protein with an essential amino acid balance close to breastmilk!) and wow. Now I want to make it, and so shortly I'll be trying out a recipe for it, but in the meantime, if you come across this

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Weight Loss Challenge: Going Out To Eat

One thing that can be really challenging when you are in weight loss mode is going out to eat. When Keith and I lost almost 300lbs combined about 13 years ago, one thing that we were soooo strict about was eating out, and it really made so much of a difference. We did have a few places that were ok for an emergency, but overall we did not go out to eat for almost a year. The hard things about going out to eat in weight loss mode are this: When one eats out, you want to get the MOST value for your dollar. In weight loss mode, you want LESS portion (or more veggies to volumize) and quality food costs $$. I can make better things to stay on plan at home, so eating out doesn't have a lot of allure bc of that. Also usually when you are doing a weight loss plan, you are investing in it in SOME way. Whether that's a program for support, or certain/specific foods to stay on plan, etc. So if you don't go out to eat, you are saving money and able to put it towards things that help

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