At PNP we are starting the Fire In My Belly Eight Week Challenge. I wanted to send the girls a pep talk but after writing it I decided many people needed to hear this. It doesn't matter if you do my challenge, a Biggest Loser at work, Weight Watchers, or some other program, this is what you NEED TO KNOW to finish.
This message not only is what worked for me, but also my mom. Sure we have systems and such but Mammy had to do the same as me...decide it was time to change her life. Here's a pic of us this weekend celebrating life with a little dancing!
And here's my words to my wonderful girls at PNP.
You can do this. You CAN do this. Set your goals high and appreciate success that comes your way. Sometimes success is delayed, hidden, and not right in front of our eyes. You WILL have times you can't workout, kids are sick, have to work late, leave your food at home, don't prep enough, decide to go out with the gang, binge one night, eat too much, cut short a workout, go on a trip, etc.
What I am saying these things will happen and for many of you it will mean, unfortunately, you judge that as a failure on your part. It's not. Deal with it. It's called life and life happens. This eight weeks is about changing your life which means changing how you deal with the things that will ALWAYS happen.
You know why I lost my weight after several attempts at failing? I never gave up this time. I had a big goal...bigger than losing 100+lbs. I wanted to be healthy for once in my life. That meant changing how I talk to myself, how I ate, learning to exercise, etc. Triathlons, races, bodybuilding all had to be learned but those goals were little compared to being a new Corinne who just simply wasn't going to quit. I knew I would fail a lot but I wasn't going to fail and not get up again 20lbs heavier and three months later.
I failed so many times, too, getting here. I had plenty of days I ate too many carbs - hell, I didn't even know it mattered the first 50lbs. LOL. I just ate better foods that I liked and naturally the calories came down because my veggies weren't fried and going out to eat was some place I couldn't get into trouble. I didn't count calories, didn't wear a heart rate monitor, my strength workouts were too far and few between, and I couldn't tell you squat about a macro. Even having what most of you call a total screw-up day it was hella better than a regular day.
When you are in pretty good shape it's too easy to make it wayyyy harder than it has to be, too. Figure out the one thing that usually screws you up and fix that. Tell me what it is in the forums and I bet I can help you fix it if you are willing to quit making the same mistakes over and over again.
And that's where we end. This eight weeks don't go into it like you always do ESPECIALLY if you aren't where you want to be. Go into this expecting some failures and learning from them versus using them as an excuse to read about our winner and wonder why you couldn't do it. I will bet my weightloss that whoever wins will miss a workout, eat things they didn't plan or "shouldn't" and make plenty of mistakes. She'll also be the one who kept showing up at the next workout and meal shaking off those mistakes.
Love you girls and I would ADORE it if we had all 64 of you complete the challenge having changed their life...in some way.



