April 20, 2012

Good morning to ALL the fam, Another week has come and gone - it's amazing that the end of April is close and it was JUST Christmas. :) Time waits for no one, right? It's amazing to me how many weight loss "plans" people try and get so consumed with. I am here with my mom in Warm Springs today and she is now trying this "revised cabbage soup" diet that we did when I was coming along. Now it has protein and additional veggies added to it, but it is still the same premise: eat as much soup as you can and lose weight. I just smiled when she tried to convince me that this is the NEXT greatest thing and YOU CAN LOSE 8 POUNDS IN TWO WEEKS. She tried really hard to get me to "buy in" because the article reports "stars and important" people have had success with this plan and "YOU CAN TOO!' Cracks me up! I really want to write an article about ALL OF YOU who have taken a simple food plan and made it a way of life and are lasting beyond the two weeks. YOU GUYS are the REAL STARS in this. Eating healthy cannot be about a two week denial of things that got us to the place we found ourself and then bringing all that back into our lives and being shocked that we look as we did before. That's basic science. Yes? I know people think they can lose 8 pounds and that starts the cycle, but if you don't change the "day to day" REAL food choices - those 8 pounds "somehow" often re-appear and bring a few friends. (wink) Diet fads don't work - they just don't. I have a MILLION t-shirts to prove that. I am not saying the cabbage soup recipe is bad - it's not. It's WAY HCG friendly, but the variety of healthy food choices on our journey gives us the best promise of long-term success. I'd rather eat what I want as long as it falls into a lean protein, fruit, vegetable, or healthy fat category, as that creates A LOT of choices, than use a two weeks "fad" to loose weight. At the grocery store the other day 3 different magazines had three different plans. How's a girl to choose??? :) Maybe the movie star with the MOST popularity and the BEST body is the plan we chooooooosssssseeeeee????? I'm kidding. Whatever you guys are doing is what I want to do. You're the winners, you're the stars, you're the success stories, you're the trend setters. YES YOU ARE! I wanna be like you. Have an amazing day! PK