Your Mind Is the Mirror By Gabrielle Reece - Posted Fri, Jul 28, 2006, 3:55 pm PDT

1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Jul 28, 2006, 6:02 pm PDT

i think you can feel great when you know you are making the right nutritional decisions. the lonestartnow program i've been doing has reinforced this for me. i knew in my heart of hearts that i had to take the responsibility for what i choose to eat and what i choose to not eat. what i choose to do to get more active. and now i know it's about how making the right choices makes me feel. it makes me feel good and so i'm motivated to make more of the right choices. every time i ignore a craving, everytime i take the stairs, i know i'm doing a good thing and i feel good about it. it's addictive.

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Jul 29, 2006, 7:06 am PDT

I am a average mom that works 8 hrs a day. Time is my problem. By the time I get home and fix supper, wash clothes, straighten up and get ready for the next day, my evening is gone. My morning starts at 5:30am. I'd love to get fit and feel better about myself, but when?

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3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Jul 29, 2006, 10:44 am PDT

mferguson- You have to make time for yourself and decide that your health & fitness is a priority. Carve out 30-60 minutes 3 to 4 times a week for fitness. Play soccer, tag, wheelbarrow race or whatever with the kids on the weekends. Take the stairs instead of the elevator, park farther away, take short walk-breaks at work. Maybe some of the straightening up or wash can wait until the next day, or recruit your kids/partner to help. Only you can make the decision to make it work. Nobody is saying it's easy but it is so worth it. The healthy lifestyle has paybacks that multiply: sets a good example for your kids, feeling better about yourself, more energy, able to play with your grandkids(!). See Gabby's 7/11 blog: 'Get Outside Yourself'. "All things are possible if you believe and commit."

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4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jul 30, 2006, 4:06 am PDT

Unless we love and respect our selves no one will love or respect us. And most important don't let the ohers do it for you.

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5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jul 30, 2006, 4:07 am PDT

Unless we love and respect our selves no one will love or respect us. And most important don't let the ohers do it for you.

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6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jul 30, 2006, 5:26 am PDT

ach day I look in the mirror, the first thing I see is my stomach and instantly I am feeling like I don't look good, but in everyone else's eyes I look good. Why am I so down on myself? I wonder if me worring about everything & everybody causes me to eat, and think negative? If I didn't have to work, I'd probably never go out of the house:O(

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7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jul 30, 2006, 12:12 pm PDT

I don't work and I am with teens all day and I have weighed, after five kids, the same I did in high school, a size 8 (or 6 now that they lie to us) I feel fat and frustrated and I DON'T spend enough time with other grownups, being challenged and IT IS ALL IN THE SELF TALK!! Please PLEASE Hear me when I say, I am surrounded by mostly overweight women, summer was coming and I gained 12 lbs. I am tired of women looking down at me, resenting me because I am thinnner than them. I AM NOT IN GOOD shape, I have Cellulite on my hips and thighs but a flat tummy. So I started putting on the pounds to be less of a threat! How screwed up is that! All the moms I know work, atleast part time and I live in a neighborhood with mostly elderly. I visit with them, my kids friends moms ALL work! I feel frustrated and idiotic. It is stupid to be gaining weight to feel safer, but I know lots of us do it for many different reasons. I feel YUCK and here I am whining to a world of strangers! I love being a mom, but I never thought it would feel like the only thing I had time or space to do, the only thing I was okay at!!!

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8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jul 30, 2006, 12:36 pm PDT

two years ago I was hurt at work- back injury-I gained 25lbs due to the “medicine” that I have to take due to the pain. I was a stay at home mom, and a working woman. I worked 80 hour work weeks, and then I was down to 20 hrs a week. Now, I am unemployed. Sagesss7, you are right, woman are very hard on other woman. Working part time or full time, the rude comments will fly. I believe when others aren’t happy with themselves they lash out at others. Making rude comments, acting like bullying teenagers. Don’t gain weight to try and make someone else feel good about you. They will just find something else rude to say. Look good! Hold your head up, be the best you. Let those other woman realize that insulting you won’t change how they look. You have teenagers – show them how to be the best person they can be, and not to jump off the end of a cliff because someone said they should. I hope this makes sense. Be you- that’s all you can be. And ,hey- you kids will grow up soon the world will open up to you .

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9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jul 30, 2006, 12:37 pm PDT

two years ago I was hurt at work- back injury-I gained 25lbs due to the “medicine” that I have to take due to the pain. I was a stay at home mom, and a working woman. I worked 80 hour work weeks, and then I was down to 20 hrs a week. Now, I am unemployed. Sagesss7, you are right, woman are very hard on other woman. Working part time or full time, the rude comments will fly. I believe when others aren’t happy with themselves they lash out at others. Making rude comments, acting like bullying teenagers. Don’t gain weight to try and make someone else feel good about you. They will just find something else rude to say. Look good! Hold your head up, be the best you. Let those other woman realize that insulting you won’t change how they look. You have teenagers – show them how to be the best person they can be, and not to jump off the end of a cliff because someone said they should. I hope this makes sense. Be you- that’s all you can be. And ,hey- you kids will grow up soon the world will open up to you .

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10. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jul 30, 2006, 9:48 pm PDT

Thank You Very much for your comment, and just sharing that with me. Your responses brought tears of gratitude to my eyes! I am glad that I shared this Yuck stuff going on with me and was not criticized for it! I am waking up in the morning and going for a walk and stretching and I told my daughters we are off to the YMCA for some fun in an exercise class of our choice! I HAVE to Shake off this funk and whining alone won't help, sharing did and does! How we talk to ourselves, or Don't let ourselves talk to others really can impact our lives!! Thanks, I did like being thinner and just FEELING better about my body!! And I think I may just take my free three visits with the trainer that I have there...!

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11. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jul 30, 2006, 9:53 pm PDT

I hope your back has, or is healing!! I have a disc that was damaged due to an angry mom, so it was hard for many years until I found a chiro. that does muscle release and other amazing things, Now I am back on a bike for short jaunts, which is another enjoyable thing I can quit whining and GO DO!!! Thanks for your comments and support, it meant very much to me! It does help to share our ich and let it go...I do want a part time job but yes, I remember what some jobs were like, wow the women can be mean. I don't miss that, but I miss the hardworking productive people! How to work at home AND interact with others I have not figured out! thinking on it tho...

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12. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Aug 01, 2006, 7:31 am PDT

Ugh, I think I have the lowest self esteem. I'm 21, 5 foot zero and I'm 55lbs over what I should be for my height. My fiance says I don't look like I am that much over weight, but of course I don't believe him. I've gained 35 of it since I started my new job in February. It's hard for me to eat healthy because now days, healthy food is more expensive and of course, I can't afford it, let alone join a gym to exercise at. I sit all day at work, and then work upsets me, so when I get home, all I want to do is sit and mope around. I live in an apartment building, so it's kind of hard to exercise. And I don't feel safe running outside. And I would bring my one and only friend, but she is lazier than I am(not to be mean but she is).I know I'm complaining a lot, but how can I lose weight and be healthy with these restrictions? It's frustrating!

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13. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Aug 01, 2006, 7:33 am PDT

Ugh, I think I have the lowest self esteem. I'm 21, 5 foot zero and I'm 55lbs over what I should be for my height. My fiance says I don't look like I am that much over weight, but of course I don't believe him. I've gained 35 of it since I started my new job in February. It's hard for me to eat healthy because now days, healthy food is more expensive and of course, I can't afford it, let alone join a gym to exercise at. I sit all day at work, and then work upsets me, so when I get home, all I want to do is sit and mope around. I live in an apartment building, so it's kind of hard to exercise. And I don't feel safe running outside. And I would bring my one and only friend, but she is lazier than I am(not to be mean but she is).I know I'm complaining a lot, but how can I lose weight and be healthy with these restrictions? It's frustrating!

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14. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Aug 01, 2006, 7:39 am PDT

Ugh, I think I have the lowest self esteem. I'm 21, 5 foot zero and I'm 55lbs over what I should be for my height. My fiance says I don't look like I am that much over weight, but of course I don't believe him. I've gained 35 of it since I started my new job in February. It's hard for me to eat healthy because now days, healthy food is more expensive and of course, I can't afford it, let alone join a gym to exercise at. I sit all day at work, and then work upsets me, so when I get home, all I want to do is sit and mope around. I live in an apartment building, so it's kind of hard to exercise. And I don't feel safe running outside. And I would bring my one and only friend, but she is lazier than I am(not to be mean but she is).I know I'm complaining a lot, but how can I lose weight and be healthy with these restrictions? It's frustrating!

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15. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Aug 01, 2006, 7:52 am PDT

Ugh, I think I have the lowest self esteem. I'm 21, 5 foot zero and I'm 55lbs over what I should be for my height. My fiance says I don't look like I am that much over weight, but of course I don't believe him. I've gained 35 of it since I started my new job in February. It's hard for me to eat healthy because now days, healthy food is more expensive and of course, I can't afford it, let alone join a gym to exercise at. I sit all day at work, and then work upsets me, so when I get home, all I want to do is sit and mope around. I live in an apartment building, so it's kind of hard to exercise. And I don't feel safe running outside. And I would bring my one and only friend, but she is lazier than I am(not to be mean but she is).I know I'm complaining a lot, but how can I lose weight and be healthy with these restrictions? It's frustrating!

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