Tools For My Success

1. A made up mind for a healthier lifestyle.

2. Joined Lose It! Online weight loss community.

3. Subscribed to Fitness Magazine for a full year at $5.99 (offer still available on their website). Also, you can redeem your mycokerewards.com points for a full year subscription (133 points)

4. Weigh myself everyday, log all my meals and exercise daily. When I don't feel like exercising, I do it anyway by choosing a less strenuous activity like stretching, simple Pilates moves or lifting my dumbbells for 30 minutes.

5. Encourage others and receive encouragement through the Lose It! community.

6. Prepare my meals at home and measure and weigh everything. Make healthier food choices.

7. Go to the gym in my complex. Also workout at home and walk to the grocery store weekly.

8. Make my workouts fun! (listen to music, watch a movie, catch up on my tv shows, change up my exercise routines)

9. Enjoy a not so healthy snack in moderation.

10. Blogging about my weight loss journey.



Making a heartfelt commitment and following through will yield you wonderful results. The best thing about all of this is, you get to set your own pace. If all you can do right now is just eat. Then calculate your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) to determine your caloric intake to lose weight. Then limit your calories based on that. When I started my weight loss, I could not afford to buy more food as I just completed my grocery shopping a week prior to making up my mind. So I simply limited my calories (I ate the same foods as before but started eating the correct portions)and began exercising and the weight began to drop. I slowly added the magazine subscription and healthier food options as time went on. So make the best of what you have available to you, research foods and exercises online. Join a weight loss community for encouragement and helpful advice. Incorporate exercise into your day even if it's just stretching for now. As you do your research (stay away from fad diets) you'll make more and more healthier changes and begin to see results.

- Posted From The Road