My husband has joined the Journey4 Health Walk!

I am very excited! On Monday, Harold decided to begin his journey towards health and weight loss.  This means alot to us.  First of all the idea of him becoming a healthier individual, lowering his risk for heart disease, high blood pressure and other diseases is wonderful!  Some of the other benefits I'm excited about are increased energy (being a worker of 2 jobs) and as the major grocery shopper and cook of the family, this means a healthier eating plan for Alivia and I.

One of my main struggles is being in complete control of my meals while at work only to come home to the "chef" who has prepared a meal which may be higher in fat content than we know is good for us.  He has already began asking about food substitutions.  He's planning some sort of soup that uses sausage, but asked if it would be healther to replace it with chicken sausage. 

Even though we have the Wilson Fitness Center (at home), he has joined Fultons Fitness and has incorporated the help of a personal trainer to ensure that he meets his goals.Whether or not someone chooses to pursue excercise on their own or through a facility is a personal choice.  Whatever works best for you, do it!  I like incorporting both. 

The other major source of motivation for him is that his job is having a "Biggest Loser" competition!  Whatever works for you, work it!

I'm a creature of habit, so if I form a connection to something that may not last forever, once it's removed from the equation (gym membership), the activity associated with it will disappear for me as well! I'm beginning to learn my own personal blue print which includes learning my emotional triggers ect.

An example of this: I had a heated discussion with my trainer about the "idea" that I can lose weight faster if I dedicated myself to sticking to a strict diet plan. If I lost 60 lbs in 1 year versus 100 lbs, according to his statistics, " I have failed". Failure can not be a word in my vocabulary and Diet cannot be there! I've failed at too many programs and diets. What we are doing now is creating life changing behavior. I have to continue to work towards my goal. I will occasionally have moments of stumbling but my goal is to keep moving forward and keep making progress no matter the pace. But my mindset MUST reject the word "Failure". Failure in my brain means stopping whatever it is I'm failing at!

Now as a credit to the specialist, they are absolutely right! These changes for me however must be step by step until they become a habit resulting in changed behavior with life changing results. I am now understanding that I must re-train my body what to do with the food I'm putting in it....but I'll blog more about that later!