My initial reaction to Herbalife, was probably similar to that of many others, that it was a bit of a weird diet! I could just see me forcing myself to drink a shake in place of my breakfast and lunch, that surely was going to taste no where near as good as my regular food, and hating every minute of it!
I mean what about my lovely bowl of coco pops and morning cuppa with two sugars?? And that's not even touching on my lunches… I would take great pleasure in going to the local chippy on a regular occurrence to stink out the office full of fish (sorry girls)!
Although junk food and take aways we're a big part of my diet, I wasn't always a bad eater, I would say that roughly 40% of the time I 'thought' I was being good… e.g. I would have a nice 'healthy' sandwich!
I was lucky that I had the always been a regular at the gym and didn't mind working really hard trying to keep semi fit - Or I really could have been - as my good old gran would say 'the side of a house'
So on my first week, I was very much experimenting… I didn't think I needed to do what my coach (Lynne) was telling me exactly, I was adding in some stuff to my shake to make it taste different, missing out a snack here or there (I mean I was easting less - surly that was a good thing?) and not drinking the 2 liters of water a day that I was supposed to!
So guess you could say I was 'dabbling'!
My first weigh in came and I stood on the scales… and shocker… THERE WAS NO CHANGE!
I was insistent that I had done everything right! (Yea I know I'm an idiot! - I can be sometimes!) So Lynne had no proper feedback to give me. I was lying to her and most importantly to myself. I quickly realised I was wasting my money, my time and her time but not doing this properly!
I had a lot to learn about what I was really putting in my mouth and how it was affecting me and my body.
That night I went home and took a photo of myself in the mirror that clearly showed my ever growing Buddah belly and I vowed to look at that picture on a daily basis to encourage myself to work hard at this.
I was verging on the big 3-0 and instead of focusing on loosing a certain amount of weigh, I made myself a promise that I would try my hardest to get a six pack for my 30th birthday! It was going to be tough, I mean it was only 6 weeks away, I had given myself a goal and a half! But I don't know about you, I've always dreamed of having a lovely washboard stomach and after all dreams are there to give you something to aim for!
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
Christopher Reeve
Well ladies and gentlemen... I was well and truly on my way to chasing my dream!
What do you dream of?
Px
I mean what about my lovely bowl of coco pops and morning cuppa with two sugars?? And that's not even touching on my lunches… I would take great pleasure in going to the local chippy on a regular occurrence to stink out the office full of fish (sorry girls)!
Although junk food and take aways we're a big part of my diet, I wasn't always a bad eater, I would say that roughly 40% of the time I 'thought' I was being good… e.g. I would have a nice 'healthy' sandwich!
I was lucky that I had the always been a regular at the gym and didn't mind working really hard trying to keep semi fit - Or I really could have been - as my good old gran would say 'the side of a house'
So on my first week, I was very much experimenting… I didn't think I needed to do what my coach (Lynne) was telling me exactly, I was adding in some stuff to my shake to make it taste different, missing out a snack here or there (I mean I was easting less - surly that was a good thing?) and not drinking the 2 liters of water a day that I was supposed to!
So guess you could say I was 'dabbling'!
My first weigh in came and I stood on the scales… and shocker… THERE WAS NO CHANGE!
I was insistent that I had done everything right! (Yea I know I'm an idiot! - I can be sometimes!) So Lynne had no proper feedback to give me. I was lying to her and most importantly to myself. I quickly realised I was wasting my money, my time and her time but not doing this properly!
I had a lot to learn about what I was really putting in my mouth and how it was affecting me and my body.
That night I went home and took a photo of myself in the mirror that clearly showed my ever growing Buddah belly and I vowed to look at that picture on a daily basis to encourage myself to work hard at this.
I was verging on the big 3-0 and instead of focusing on loosing a certain amount of weigh, I made myself a promise that I would try my hardest to get a six pack for my 30th birthday! It was going to be tough, I mean it was only 6 weeks away, I had given myself a goal and a half! But I don't know about you, I've always dreamed of having a lovely washboard stomach and after all dreams are there to give you something to aim for!
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| Aim for the sky! |
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
Christopher Reeve
Well ladies and gentlemen... I was well and truly on my way to chasing my dream!
What do you dream of?
Px
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