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There is nothing like a dream to create the future. — Victor Hugo,  Les Miserables

Here are 5 ways to give you the kick in the butt to jump start your weight loss procrastination. The unofficial start to summer,  Memorial Day is just 4 short days away!

1. Understand your motivation: If you are planning to lose weight for someone other than yourself, it will never work. Get real around why you want to lose the weight! Do you have a summer event coming up and want to fit into that little black dress or have you signed up for a summer road race and need some motivation to get training. Step back and look yourself in the eye and ask WHY DO I WANT TO DO THIS!
2. Use your motivation to your advantage. Do you beat yourself up, each day that you don’t take steps to our goal. Use your goals as the push you need to keep going. I find that by hanging posters or motivational quotes really help give me the push in the right direction that I need.
3. Change your internal language! Instead of saying I HAVE TO or THERE IS NO WAY. Change your dialog. I want to lose 25 pounds so that I will be _____________ (insert what happens when you achieve your goals or how will you feel when you achieve goals.
4. Set goals fueled by your passion. You can’t go anyway without a road map, okay now a days GPS.  Here is where you take those goals and break them up. Your goal for this week is to lose 1 pound and develop a plan on how you are going to do that. Want to run a 10K, go to this site Need help more, shoot me an email.
5. Still not fired up to get moving on your goals, try this. Write a letter to your future self. Imagine that you have achieved your goals. What would you say to yourself, how would you feel, how would you look, what would you do. Now write a letter to yourself as if you didn’t meet your goals. Both letters will help you drive you forward.

Still need a kick in the pants, shoot me an email. Have any additional comments, just post them below.

Tomorrow is my husband’s company party.  Now I’m not competing for a little bit, so I can go off the reservation a little bit.  But not to crazy– don’t want to have to take it off before my next show.

So I’m going to stick to the following:

• Shrimp cocktail (Yum)
• Grilled (chicken or beef skewers)
• Diet soda
• Veggies (no dipping sauce)

Who am I kindling its the holiday’s I will treat myself to 2 Stoli Blueberry vodka’s on the rocks.

Cheers!!!  Will you be going to a holiday party, how will you surplurge?

Americans drink more hard liquor in December than any other time of the year, according to the Distilled Spirits Council.  Plus, we all drinking leads to EATING!! If you’re picking appetizers all night, you’ve got your head first in a pizza, or worse yet, as the Brits say if your drinking eating is like cheating!

So it the holidays and with everything that is  going on in the world, who can blame a girl for going out and getting a cocktail or 2.  But here are suggestions on how to do it without blowing your diet. Try on of these to cocktails.

Chocolate Martini (10 oz.)
Calories: 438
Carbs: 24 grams

Irish Coffee
Calories: 210
Carbs: 8 grams
*Sorry no whip cream

1. Since you are drinking make sure you EAT, nothing is worse that drinking on an empty stomach
2. Be sure to eat something before you go out that way you are not ravenous and won’t make unhealthy choices

Do you have any healthy tips you’d like to share, let me know! I would love to hear from you.