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Are you on "Team Edward" or "Team Jacob"?
This certainly seems to be the year of the vampire! More and more books and movies are being produced about these creatures of the night! And the latest is The Twilight Series - Eclipse!
Whenever a book or movie gains huge popularity, invariably a whole line of merchandise comes out, the most popular being t-shirts. You can't help but notice the trend with the Twilight t-shirts, they are VERY popular right now.
And MXM didn't want the plus-sized world to feel left out, so they've designed their own line of "The Twilight Saga - Eclipse" t-shirts in sizes 14+! No more feeling left out just because you wear a size bigger than a 2!
This new Twilight line goes on sale as of June 10! And in the meantime, MXM is running a great contest where you could win a "Red Carpet Experience" for the movie's opening on June 18! (prize value $500)Click on the H&M ad above to be taken to the site to enter the contest and check out all the great plus-sized options! You can look great this summer!
Weight Loss Easy as 1-2-3!
I have lost count of how many times I’ve been asked what the secret to my weight loss success is. I get asked this almost daily. And almost without fail, when I start to explain about what I did, the person looks a bit disappointed. After this happened again yesterday, I decided to ask the questioner why this was, and I got a very interesting reply!
Turns out this person was really hoping I answered her question with something like “I took a magic pill and the weight just fell off”, which of course is not the answer I gave her!
We continued the conversation, and I asked her how long she had been hoping to find this magic pill. She said it had been years, years that she had spent being miserable in her overweight body. I asked what she had tried to do to lose weight, and she rhymed off a long list of diets she’d started but not finished, gym classes she’d signed up for but not attended, and various widgets and gidgets she had bought from the internet, none of which worked. (any of this sound familiar to you?)
She was clearly looking for the quick fix, and had wasted years (and lots of money) in her search for the “Holy Grail” of weight loss.
No wonder she was so disappointed when I told her that I had achieved my weight goals basically by doing three things:
1. Taking responsibility for myself and my actions, including my ways of thinking and looking at the world.
2. Asking for help from qualified people and organizations.
3. Being patient with my progress and kind with myself, which included learning to love myself regardless of what the scale said.
There is no magic pill and there aren’t any shortcuts on the road to your ideal weight. Stop wasting your time, energy and money trying to find these, they simply aren’t there. And instead, start working on the three items above, and watch what starts to happen with your weight. It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen. And I’m here to help with all three items, all you have to do is ask!
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I think what you’re saying is so applicable to all parts of life: running a business, being a good parent or spouse, becoming a better athlete. Steps 1,2,3 might not be easy at first, but it’s a lot easier than living in misery and disappointment.
Great information thanks for getting this out there for people like me to read.
Stimulating thoughts here. Are you assured this is the correct way to look at it though? My experience is that we should pretty much live and let live because what one person considers just — another person simply doesn’t. Human beings are going to do what they want to do. In the end, they always do. The best we can pray for is to distinguish a few things here and there that hopefully, allows them to make just a little better informed decision. Otherwise, great post. You’re definitely making me think! –Dan