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Day 35 - Sending and Receiving Personal Signals
nana6799
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Good Morning Everyone!!
Yesterday, I found my weight and measurement records that dated back from 4/2011 to 12/2011, I had forgotten I had kept such good track of my progress . Then there is no other records until I got really serious about this in 9/2012. It was interesting to see the comparisons. And how much exercising had on the impact of whether or not my body fat ratio went up or down and my eating habits. It was like they say,"an eye opener." It just reminded me how this journey needs to be for life and not just for here some and there some.
A good part of yesterday was spent in documenting these records with the ones from 9/12 to the present. In doing that, I thought that it would be good for me to measure again since it had been a month. I really wasn't planning on doing measurements until this challenge ended. To my amazement, I had lost a total of another 3 1/2 inches for that month and my weight really had dropped just a pound. Again, realization how important it is to do our exercises no matter if we think we are losing or not because it does decrease the fat and takes inches off! In that month, my BF% went from 26.1 to 25.9.
After doing some research on what is best for my age (67 in 3 months) I reset my weight goal to122 and my BF% 22. Not too much difference from what it was before but I think a little healthier for me.........Just some "aha" moments I wanted to share with you!
We have a new member....mumubra. So take some time to welcome her!
"Sending and Receiving Personal Signals"
"If you will resolve to work each day for self-realization, your whole world can change....The two women you are, they can make you over." Pond's Cold Cream Advertisement Good Housekeeping, December 1947 (A year after I was born, (Nana6799 speaking)
"I had not seen my friend in months. At first when she approached through the crowd of strangers, I literally did not recognize her. Her hair, always beautifully styled, was disheveled; her unmakeup face was red and puffy with large dark circles under her eyes, and she was wearing a pair of jeans and a lumpy sweater instead of the attractive Laura Ashley dresses she normally favored. I was absolutely stunned. What was wrong with this picture?"
"When we sat down together to talk over a cup of coffee, she told me about a serious life crisis she was experiencing. But even before she confided in me, I knew only too well that something was seriously wrong."
"Each of us transmits personal signals about our self-esteem every day in myriad ways. Most of them are not as dramatic as my friend's but are rather subtle. When we are feeling on top of the world there's a spring in our step, a smile on our face, and a sparkle in our eyes. Then there are those occasions when, through lack of time, energy, or emotion, we become careless about our attire and our personal grooming. We literally begin to care less---until it looks as though we don't care at all. Of course, deep within, we care very much."
"But there is an importnat reason why we should give a second thought to our personal appearance, even when we're alone: The inner joy we experience when we look our best. "Many women feel in their hearts that they have missed full self-realization," Another advertisement for Pond's Cold Cream in the March 1949 issue of Good Housekeeping advised readers. "Yet they need not accept this---help is within themselves. You can feel it within you---an inner drive for happiness. The close interrelation between this Inner You and this Outer You, the almost uncanny power to joyous self-fulfillment."
"When I first discovered this "New Age" series of beauty advertisements from the late 1940s, I was amused----and then grateful. For one of the most marvelous lessons you learn on a path of personal transformation is that when your heart is open to change, you're able to recognize the personal signals of encouragement your authentic self is constantly sending, no matter how unlikely the source." Sarah Ban Breathnach
"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action." Tony Robbins
Have a great day!
Yesterday, I found my weight and measurement records that dated back from 4/2011 to 12/2011, I had forgotten I had kept such good track of my progress . Then there is no other records until I got really serious about this in 9/2012. It was interesting to see the comparisons. And how much exercising had on the impact of whether or not my body fat ratio went up or down and my eating habits. It was like they say,"an eye opener." It just reminded me how this journey needs to be for life and not just for here some and there some.
A good part of yesterday was spent in documenting these records with the ones from 9/12 to the present. In doing that, I thought that it would be good for me to measure again since it had been a month. I really wasn't planning on doing measurements until this challenge ended. To my amazement, I had lost a total of another 3 1/2 inches for that month and my weight really had dropped just a pound. Again, realization how important it is to do our exercises no matter if we think we are losing or not because it does decrease the fat and takes inches off! In that month, my BF% went from 26.1 to 25.9.
After doing some research on what is best for my age (67 in 3 months) I reset my weight goal to122 and my BF% 22. Not too much difference from what it was before but I think a little healthier for me.........Just some "aha" moments I wanted to share with you!
We have a new member....mumubra. So take some time to welcome her!
"Sending and Receiving Personal Signals"
"If you will resolve to work each day for self-realization, your whole world can change....The two women you are, they can make you over." Pond's Cold Cream Advertisement Good Housekeeping, December 1947 (A year after I was born, (Nana6799 speaking)
"I had not seen my friend in months. At first when she approached through the crowd of strangers, I literally did not recognize her. Her hair, always beautifully styled, was disheveled; her unmakeup face was red and puffy with large dark circles under her eyes, and she was wearing a pair of jeans and a lumpy sweater instead of the attractive Laura Ashley dresses she normally favored. I was absolutely stunned. What was wrong with this picture?"
"When we sat down together to talk over a cup of coffee, she told me about a serious life crisis she was experiencing. But even before she confided in me, I knew only too well that something was seriously wrong."
"Each of us transmits personal signals about our self-esteem every day in myriad ways. Most of them are not as dramatic as my friend's but are rather subtle. When we are feeling on top of the world there's a spring in our step, a smile on our face, and a sparkle in our eyes. Then there are those occasions when, through lack of time, energy, or emotion, we become careless about our attire and our personal grooming. We literally begin to care less---until it looks as though we don't care at all. Of course, deep within, we care very much."
"But there is an importnat reason why we should give a second thought to our personal appearance, even when we're alone: The inner joy we experience when we look our best. "Many women feel in their hearts that they have missed full self-realization," Another advertisement for Pond's Cold Cream in the March 1949 issue of Good Housekeeping advised readers. "Yet they need not accept this---help is within themselves. You can feel it within you---an inner drive for happiness. The close interrelation between this Inner You and this Outer You, the almost uncanny power to joyous self-fulfillment."
"When I first discovered this "New Age" series of beauty advertisements from the late 1940s, I was amused----and then grateful. For one of the most marvelous lessons you learn on a path of personal transformation is that when your heart is open to change, you're able to recognize the personal signals of encouragement your authentic self is constantly sending, no matter how unlikely the source." Sarah Ban Breathnach
"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action." Tony Robbins
Have a great day!
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I think especially when it comes to meeting people in our private environment, we are more likely to dress as we feel and not as what we need to represent (doctor, nurses, lawers, judges etc), so the evidence of our feelings are more present.
What I think of this post was first, how sad that you had the evidence of your friends life crisis was so painfully obvious, but then I thought again. Now on second thought i say: How good, that you have a friend that does not only appreciate the shiny star, but also cares, when you are everything but the shiny!
It is good to have at least one friend who is willing to help you back to be the shiny you and reminds you to be careful with yourself, so you not get lost in the daily life or even in life changing crisis!!!
It is a blessing to have friends who care about us enough to be with us every step of the day!0 -
Congratulations, Fredda! That's incredible and you continue to be an inspiration!
And welcome, mumubra! I hope that this group and the people in it will keep you inspired and determined!
I learned over a long time and through the hard way just how much of an impression your appearance makes. I always struggled with the idea that fussing too much over what you looked like was akin to vanity, and so avoided it like the plague, but experience soon taught me that there's a difference between fawning over yourself and taking care of yourself. Confidence is pretty easily distinguished from conceit! When you look self-assured, composed, and pulled-together--whether or not you feel that way-- people start to act as if you are, and that in turn strengthens those qualities in you. On the flip side, when I'm dressed or carrying myself in a slovenly way, people's opinions and, consequently, actions adapt to that and, naturally, I end up feeling like no one respects me. We really can have control over much of what people think of us, at least initially.0 -
merry_abandon, You put this is the right perspective and so plain! Thank you for your contribuation!
spacecurly, Yes, we all need atleast one freind that we can tell them anything or/and look not our best! I know, I have 2 such friends! And your perspective was also good! Thank you.
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