Good Evening,

I had such a busy day today… Busier than I have been in a long time!

I knew it was going to be a runner runner day… And I din’t want to get stressed and blow it… So I prepared for it by packing 2 of my Medifast Ready to drinks and a Smores bar, and put it in the refrigerator last night.

I really like the convienience of the ready to drinks when I am on-the-go like that!

Then I just get a cup of ice when I stop for a bottle of water…

No shaker jar to clean, nothing to mix… I love it!

So now I am relaxing, ready for bed, and SOOOO happy I had another 100% successful day!

I have a better attitude and love ME more when I stick to the plan!

And I love that the weight is just coming off so easy! I don’t even think about it and obsess anymore!

I just do what I know I need to do, and the rest falls into place!

My life has REALLY changed because of this program!

Have you ever had those moments in your life when you just KNOW that something GRAND is about to enter STAGE LEFT??

All of us have…

And THAT is where I am RIGHT NOW with Medifast!!

I am a part of something so GREAT, that the strongest dam in the world couldn’t hold it!

I am losing weight with the ONLY thing that has ever REALLY worked! I’m getting healthier, achieving peace of mind, and gaining a financial freedom like I have NEVER had IN MY LIFE!

I just didn’t take that step before now to allow myself to DREAM!

Something in my brain clicked, and I KNEW it was TIME to get healthy… Ya’ know once I realized that I couldn’t just keep on reading, and keep on finding excuses why I was not gonna start TODAY, It became clear that TODAY can NEVER start tomorrow!

So if you are reading this… and this sounds like you… Walk this road with me… Lets do this thing!!  I’ve come from a person who was over 325 pounds, who was DYING a day at a time… To a person who has lost 120 PLUS pounds and is LIVIN’ a day at a time!

I am finishing up my second week fo transition today.  I weigh 136 lbs.  I have now been able to add back more veggies and fruit.  I am looking forward to tomorrow as I can have yogurt again.  I was afraid of going into transition because I thought that if I started eating the foods that have been out of my diet for so long, I would gain weight back.  To my surprise, I am still losing.  I have less than one pound to lose to be able to say that I lost exactly one half of my body weight.  Wow!  If the rest of transition goes as smooth as the last two weeks, this is as easy as the 5/1.  As long as you keep eating on the same 5/1 schedule ( every 2-3 hours) and remember portion control, it becomes habit just as the 5/1 did.  The only other thing I can think of to add right now is simply this….Do transition the way it is written and you are well on your way to keeping the weight off forever.  Optimal health…..I’m livin’ it!!!

It is the Continental Divide that slices America into two sections. If you are west of it your rivers will eventually flow into the Pacific Ocean. If you are east then all your rivers eventually flow into the Atlantic or Arctic. My home state of Colorado sits on that big split and it definitely shows. There are more mountain peaks over 14,000 feet in Colorado than anywhere else in the contiguous 48 states. California has 13 peaks, Washington State has one, and Colorado has 58.

On Wednesday I climbed two of my favorite peaks: Gray’s and Torrey’s. These are not technical climbs but rather an excellent indicator of strength and endurance. The climb is 9 miles round trip with more than 3,000 feet of vertical ascent. Gray’s peak has the distinction of being the tallest peak on the continental divide. At 14,270 feet the summit is nearly three miles above sea level. The air is thin up there. Amazingly spectacular views and the occasional mountain goat combine with a lack of oxygen to make the experience surreal. I thoroughly enjoy it. It’s Rocky Mountain high. At the summit I stand elated and exhausted. I’m standing on the rooftop of America (stole that from Kerouac). But you know what? There is no way I could have done that climb five years ago. At that time, with 40 extra pounds, even a gentle climb at low elevations was too challenging to really enjoy. I find it very interesting to see how my interests have shifted in relation to my body weight.

As a Health Coach I teach my clients that having a physical activity that they can really enjoy on a regular basis is essential to living life at a healthy weight. Many of my clients are regular, brisk walkers. They have a path, or paths, that they will walk daily or very close to daily. It doesn’t much matter what form of exercise you choose as long as your muscles are working, the blood is flowing, you enjoy it and you do it regularly. Ideally you are also building a little bit of muscle because your muscles naturally atrophy as you age. Do something to neutralize that. It keeps your metabolism up.

 

Below is me atop Torrey’s peak, 14,267 feet. I was fortunate to be up there completely alone for about 10 minutes.

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My brother Jared and his family visited over the holiday weekend and I got talking with him about blogs.  He’s had a personal blog for six years but never started posting until recently.  Now he’s a regular “blogger”.  We both agreed that the blogosphere is an excellent medium to inform, entertain, inspire,… the blog can be anything you want it to be.  As long as you blog, that is.  So I ask him, “as busy as you are with work and family and everything else in your life how is it you find the time to blog regularly?”.  And he said “you just do it.”  It was the intonation in his voice that got me.  A light flipped on in my head illuminating a previously dim section of grey matter where regular blog entries were hiding.  “ahhh, I get it now”  I said to him, “you just do it”.  He saw it in my eyes, “yes” he affirmed, “you just do it”.

I am a Health Coach with Take Shape For Life.  I lost weight with Medifast and now work full time helping others do the same.  I talk to a lot of people everyday who are on this program.  From incredible successes to daily struggles to everything in between I am involved in the lives of hundreds of people on a regular basis and have learned a lot about the Medifast program.  And what I have seen thus far is that those who “just do it” are those who are losing weight, getting off medications and just plain getting healthier.Â
To put it another way, I have yet to see anyone follow the protocols of this program correctly and not lose weight.  Maybe it’s in the intonation or maybe it’s just timing but when you really want something, “just do it” makes sense.

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