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GET FOCUSED FRIDAY! August 12th

This has not been my best week; I’m not even going to lie.  I will likely go weigh in tomorrow morning to see just how bad it was.  However, I have decided that I would take this opportunity to re-focus on my weight loss efforts.  I feel like I’m recycling the same pounds over and over again and this cycle needs to stop.  I was listening to Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes.  It brought some things to the forefront of my mind including how important certain things are in my life and how I need to stop being afraid and focusing my mind on all of the “what if” and “could be” options that swirl in my brain.  Bad habits like soda have been creeping back in to my workday.  I have decided, honestly, that I am going to try to focus on what I CAN do this week.  My goals for this week are to:

I will pack a lunch/snack each workday.
I will change up my breakfast at least 2 days out of the coming week.
I will make sure I get 10,000 steps 5 days out of the coming week.

I will track my food.



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  1. Love these post and you can do it.

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  2. I definitely see a benefit to packing my lunch every day. It's so much easier to control and track calories. It's so easy to let calories slip in with extras if I go pick up my lunch instead. Best of luck this week!

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