Fridge Magnets from The Art of Kathy Shell.
PepTalk. 03/21/2010
 
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'Just DO IT, Kathy'.
I was morbidly obese, 51 kilo over my ideal weight range; because I led a sedentary lifestyle and I ate more calories than I burned. If all my relatives were morbidly obese too, it was not genetically predisposition to be that way, but because we all had a similar love of sedentary activity, including overeating. 

Surely when one after another of our relatives, die young from lifestyle disease, it is time to wake up and see, it is not the genes that are killing us. It is the lifestyle choice.  

Yes, I was just talking to myself.

 I give myself many pep talks.

 In fact pep talks, to myself are my one and only and best weight loss supplement, all the rest is happening through healthy portion controlled healthy eating and a planned exercise routine and more incidental exercise every day that I ever gave myself before, back when I made those excuses and just blamed my ‘genes’, for being obese.  I protested that, ‘I was trying to lose weight’.   Oh and I have to add, I ‘was trying’, and IE, WW and diets failed me, I did not fail them. Long term they were not the solutions I needed to lose weight and be able to hold it off.

 Yes some people do have more difficulty than others in losing weight and yes genetics is a factor in this. It still comes down to energy in versus energy out equation and giving the body healthy food, drink and movement in the right quantity for it to be at its best and to seek expert advice and motivation to follow a healthy plan.  You do not put your car into amateurs to fix, why not go to specialists for your body? I am not taliking about diet sales people here. Anyone who wants to sell you easy weight loss, is just after your money, not your best interest.
YOU / I, can get the advice from the experts, but we have to do the work.
The only place that success comes before work, is in the dictionary.

Want to join me and lose weight but not sure where to start?

There is a Free program on the internet, ‘How to Measure Up’, I have always advised using an expert, accredited dietician and a physiotherapist or sports injury trained, fitness coach and I am currently a member of the Michelle Bridges, 12 week body transformation, just entering week 4 and I am learning, benefiting and loving it. I am happy to try to help if there is anything I can blog to help inspire others, check out my artslim.org website where most of my weight management writing is published.
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o Yes, that WAS me. I do not like it. Yes it does embarrass me putting it here. If it helps anyone else realize you CAN change. You can slim though healthy living not deprivation dieting, then it is worth the emotional cost to me, to not hide where I came from. If I can do it, YOU can do it too.
 
 
I am three weeks in to, the Michelle Bridges, 12-week total body transformation and very pleased with the results I am getting.

I spent week one of it, at Tarra Valley, in Gippsland out of range of my Telstra wireless internet. I cooked some great healthy meals around the camp fire and began running along the road, in the parks and lifting weights beside the river, following the program as best I could, without being able, to log in to it.

Week two, was spent visiting family.  That was difficult; eating other peoples meals for a week and finding time to exercise while visiting others. My old bad habits of making excuses about why I cannot do the things I need to do to achieve my goals were happening again.  I did not enter this 12 week program and go perfectly 100%, I had a few slip ups during week two.

Not, my best start, in a new, fitness program.

Week three has been great, I filled the caravan and car fridge, with lots of healthy vegetables, lean meat, poultry and fish and headed for the Grampians, the lure of all those amazing walks, made me feel I could be at my very best and achieve a quick weight loss.

I thought I would start with the easy walks and work upward. Reg and I have had a wonderful time; the walking has increased in difficulty and I am striving toward a great result for my four week, one quarter into the program, weigh and measure, next Wednesday, mid week four.

 I wish I could take the walks of the Grampians with me as my own private fitness gym. J when we move on to continue our tour of Australia. I know there will be many more beautiful places to inspire exercise, just as they have inspired my paintings in the past, but the Grampians, is Reg and my ‘special place’. J

The images are of Australian landscape art works I painted and have turned into fridge magnets, which can,be ordered, through this site.

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Achieving a slimming goal,

is very hard, but very easy too.

It's 100% in your head.

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N T A G A B S F  !!

 

Nothing tastes as good as being slim feels!!
 
 
 
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Above is my latest original oil painting, Faith Bear and Golden Bunon stretched canvas, completed and ready for sale. Please email Kathy with expressions of interest to purchase original works of art.

Mark Twain: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Julius Erving: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Jim Eason.: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

Unknown Author: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.

Vince Lombardi: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.

Milton Garland: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
My advice is to go into something and stay with it until you like it. You can't like it until you obtain expertise in that work. And once you are an expert, it's a pleasure.

Winston Churchill: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Never, never, never, never give up.

Eleanor Roosevelt.: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Horace: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Rule your mind or it will rule you.

 

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