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Gotta love the excuses I hear from clients some times about why they can't lose weight. It's my metabolism, my age, my stress, my life, my yada yada yada...

It really comes down to Self Limiting Beliefs and replacing those beliefs with ones that get you to your goal.

We were designed to move every day, we were designed to eat healthy food all the time, why do people fight this and insist on freaky diets, minimal movement, pills, surgeries, and drama.

Some client was going on about that stupid HCG diet that tricks your body into thinking it's pregnant while you eat like 500 calories per day then you go back up to 1200 calories and stop taking the hormones and your body starts burning fat like mad with no side effects. WHAT A JOKE!!!

Have Americans seriously lost all common sense and the desire to live healthy meaningful lives!!! Wake up people. There are no shortcuts without serious consequences.

Getting off the quick fix roller coaster is the first step to getting real results that last.

Yeah I'm having a moment but if my rant helps even one person then I'm glad I said what I just said.

I do believe you are right. We Americans have developed a "want it now" and "the easiest way possible" mind set. The fashion world went a long way to promoting an unhealthy thin look as a role model for women, and funky eating habits were suppose to make us all look like a runway model. Hopefully the trend to full figure models (if you can call a size 12 full figure)will put an end to some of this and steer women back to healthy eating with coupled exercise to be come the beautiful women they are intended to be.

Great point! I do believe that has much to do with it but I think people need to stop trying to blame things on society or others too.

I think if people just focused on healthy behaviors most of the time they would reach their ideal weight and shape whatever that might be.

A shift to full figure might be good but a size 12 may only work for somebody who is 5'9 ish and a larger frame. It worked for Marilyn Monroe and Bettie Page or even Oprah but doesn't work for others like me who are short.

Being a size 12 for me means bodyfat bordering on obesity levels and chronic fatigue. Not a good mix when both my grandmas were diabetics. Your ideal weight and body shape just happen when you eat healthy and get regular exercise.

My excuse, i love food.

I Get comfort from food, I also find i eat a lot just out of being bored
Much of the time i eat when I'm not even hungry it just gives me some thing to do

I do too. Especially chocolate!!! I eat it every night right before bed too.

Yesterday I ate:

1 piece of whole grain bread with all natural pb and 1/2 a banana and 2 c coffee

1/2 turkey and swiss sandwich and grande latte at starbucks

5 pieces of cantaloupe

and for dinner I had 2 c pasta with spinach tomatoes feta and albacore tuna plus 1/2 c ice cream

drank 2 glasses of chia water and also had my 2 squares of choc.

Definitely a high carb day for me cuz today i'm busting out a kick [censored] workout.

Today I'll be eating high protein lots of veggies and no starchy carbs to balance that out.

You can love food all you want. It's simply a matter of learning how to manipulate it to get what you want.

Your dinner sounds terrific. No sauces of any kind?

I�m just hungry all the time. And the worst part is it usally after 7p.m. I have to break this very bad habit.

Just butter. I add that and the cheese when the pasta spinach and tomatoes are hot and it all just melts into a goey cheesy type of pasta. The tuna goes on top. I try to use fresh fish but yesterday we had none that was already cooked so I cheated and used 3 oz. canned. I do use Newman's marinara from time to time but not much. The fresh tomatoes and spinach sauteed in olive oil are pretty satisfying to me.

Today is opposite day. Instead of easy recovery workout and high carb I'll be doing high intensity workout and eating high protein, high veg, no starchy carbs.

I really like the result of this type of carb cycling so far. Weighed in at 117 lb this morning. I'll keep cycling the carbs to match workouts for another 3 weeks and see what happens.

My goal was to get down to 115ish before starting aerial so we'll see. This has 100% to do with flying on a trapeze with ease. I think having bigger goals that are not about how you look is key to sticking to your eating plan and exercise.

I want to fly like trapeze dawn!!!

Sounds yummy. I never connected the type of food I ate with my exercise.