Decisions and Choices

This past weekend was the DC health and fitness expo. I went down to enjoy the festivities and see what I could learn. I could only go on Sunday, so I thought I missed some of the guests I was interested in. Wrong! Sunday afternoon I got to meet and talk to Shay from Season 8 of Biggest Loser. For those of you who don't follow the show, Shay started as the biggest female competitor, somewhere close to 500 lbs. She lost 100 lbs at the ranch and another 72 at home. She's currently been challenged by Subway to lose the rest of her weight and they will pay her $1000/lb. Talk about incentive, eh? (and if anyone would like to offer me a similar deal - I'm currently unsponsored, lol). Anyway, watching her on the show was very inspiringing and meeting her in person was incredible. She was amazingly nice and gave some great insight into life at the ranch and how she fits in exercise into her busy family life.



Out of the 10ish minute conversation we had, one of the tidbits of information that stuck out to me was her discussing decisions and choices. I asked her how she keeps herself off the processed food and bad decisions and in the gym (aside from the $1000/lb payout). That every decision we make comes down to a simple question - Is this taking me farther away from my goal or getting me closer? It sounds so simple, but for some reason, the way she said it really made me think how simple it is. So that's been my question about everything and so far so good.



Aside from the famous people inspiration, let me just say that Diet to Go is a-MAY-zing. It's making this rough transition to a healthier person much easier. After discussing the meal plans at the expo with some of the reps, I actually decided to change to the breakfast/dinner plan instead of the breakfast/lunch plan - although I'm still eating the meals for breakfast/lunch. I made the switch because the lunch meals are kind of repetative - sandwiches. Looking through the menu - the lunch meals just seemed like they would quickly bore me and were pretty carby (breads, crackers, ect.). The dinners have way more variety. Last week, the lunches I got were a turkey sandwich, chicken salad sandwich, garden salad, tuna meltovers (sandwich). The dinners I got today were chicken fajitas, meatloaf, stirfry. Much more exciting :) I also am switching to the 5 day a week plan, as dinners are more pricey and also because I need to learn how to eat better on my own. So I'll leave the weekends open, which is fine since I can cook on those days with little to no time constraints.

Enough from me for now. I had my first training appointment and I am exhausted! After a week of training I'll fill you in on how it goes and how I like it.

Hey Fit Momma - where are you??