Finding Happiness in YOUR Recipe

It's quite evident that their is an epidemic going on - I call it the "I'M TAKING MY LIFE BACK" weight loss epidemic. Women across the globe are taking their lives back and loosing weight - isn't it quite obvious!

In that, you probably look at yourself and start to wonder - "What on Earth am I doing?" OR "Why on Earth can't I look like her?"  Then you start digging asking her "Girl, what did you do?" or "Girl how did you loose the weight?!?"

You then look at yourself and you start to compare yourself to her - and that is when it all begins....you start to question your progress and begin to wonder if you should even continue to move forward because at this point you are not happy or satisfied with where you are in this present moment. You are ready to just can this whole "weight loss" thing and throw in the towel.

BUT let me be the first to encourage you to...

 FIND YOUR RECIPE and STICK WITH IT!

I will never forget a quote I read on Instagram that said "Someone's beginning may be your middle." Wow - talking about POWERFUL. What may be one woman's beginning may be your first goal of obtaining - you never know!!!!  Just think, I started at 225 pounds - that may be in fact be a goal for a women who started at 300 pounds - to get to the 220s.  For me, my first goal was to get under 200. Now I'm in the 190s, pushing 180s and that in fact may be another woman's starting point in her journey.

Ladies, you NEVER KNOW!

You have no idea the struggles she had to go through just to get to where she is. We have to stop looking at the glass half empty focusing on what we don't have and start looking at the glass half full and finding victory in where we are RIGHT NOW!


Another girlfriend of mine and fellow Classy Fit Gal Kendra wrote in her post on the blog "Just take your journey one day at a time and remember not to compare your hips to hips. We are all beautifully and individually made to be YOU and no one else."

 

I know - I've been there and at times I find myself asking myself those same questions to this day. Talking to myself in the shower, or even questioning if I'm on the right track or even doing the right thing by starting this movement - Classy Fit Gals.

Let me be the first to tell you that when you are on the verge of your breakthrough, on the verge of dropping those pounds you've been struggling to loose because you are on a plateau, anything will come in your way to abort your victory.

 You can't allow anything to stop your victory - NOT EVEN YOUR SELF!

One thing I had to realize and what I would like for you to realize is this...

"We are all made differently and created differently - God has His own "recipe" for your success."

What works for someone may not work for you. How she lost her weight may not be the same way aka "recipe" I like to call it that will be the truth of your story.

You see, we find ourselves asking women these questions because we aren't confident that we can find our own recipe. I know because not only have I asked those questions BUT they've been asked to me as well and one thing I realize is this - what may work for someone else may NOT work for you.

We all have different things we struggle with - what one woman may struggle with may not be your struggle so that ingredient in her "Recipe for Success" won't be the same ingredient that you will need.

You may have to add a little of this and subtract more of that to see your success BUT all in all - you have to create your own recipe.

I encourage you this week to sit still and find your formula, find your ingredients, find out what those components are and create your recipe. You owe it to yourself.

We are in the final stretch of 2013 and all we can do at this point is WIN!

Remember, what works for one person may not work for you. This not only applies to weight loss but in various aspects of your life.

Let's get focused and accomplish our goals - we are responsible for our own success - WE GOT THIS!