My Nutrisystem Journey

                                                                                                🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 “Don't be afraid to start over. This time  you're not starting from scratch. You're  starting from experience . ”                           It's Day 597 of Nutrisystem. Starting over came to mind today because I set up my new scale, took a deep breath and stepped on it. It read 168. Once my old scale died I said I would accept whatever weight the new scale displayed and go from there. So here I am with 4.6 pounds that need to be lost, perhaps for the 2nd time. My last recorded weight on the old scale was 163.4 on June 24th. Wa...

                                                                                                🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 “Your ability to discipline yourself to   set clear goals, and then to work toward  them every day, will do more to  guarantee your success than any  other single factor. ”  ~Brian Tracy~                           It's Day 596 of Nutrisystem. I've never been good at disciplining myself and I still struggle with it today. I did really well with changing my eating habits since the foundation of the Nutrisystem program is eating their foods. For whatever reason I found it easy to transition from the junk I was eati...

                                                                                                🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 “In life, there are some things we might  never really "get over" . Sometimes the  best we can do is just "get through". But  that's okay - there's still a lot of  beauty to find on the other side!”                           It's Day 595 of Nutrisystem. As much as I'd like to believe I've "gotten over" all the wrongs that were done to me in my life, the reality is I haven't and I won't. Some wounds are so deep that your only option is to let a scar form. Those scars will stay with you but they don't have to define yo...

                                                                                                🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 “Wherever you are, at whatever age,  you're only a thought away from  changing your life .”  ~ Wayne Dyer~                            It's Day 594 of Nutrisystem. A thought on December 25, 2018 started the chain of events that have led to where I am today. Seeing the pictures my mother had taken during our Christmas festivities made me want to cry. I was so huge. So fat. It was horrifying. Many times before this I had told myself I needed to do something about my weight, but I kept putting it off. What I saw in the mirror...

                                                                                             🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 “A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If  there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”  ~ Tony Robbins~                            It's Day 593 of Nutrisystem. I would say the decision I made on December 29, 2018 was the most real decision I've ever made in my life. That was the day I signed up for the Nutrisystem program. It's also the best decision I've ever made because it works for me. For the first time in my life I've been successful at losing the weight and I feel like I am learning enough a...

                                                                                                 🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 "Positive thinking is more than just  a  tagline. It changes the way we  behave.  I firmly believe that when  I am  positive,  it not only makes  me  better,  it  also makes those  around  me  better. "  ~Harvey Mackay~                          It's Day 592 of Nutrisystem. Ah, the power of positive thinking. There's a lot to be said for it but you can't just "think" positive, you have to believe it and you have to live it. I wish I could say I think positive all...

                                                                                                                                                   🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 "I don't want to hear about what you  used to do years ago. What are you doing  to better yourself today ? "                          It's Day 591 of Nutrisystem. This quote couldn't have been more perfect for me. I've spent too much time rethinking the past when I should have my focus 100% on the here and now. I've said it 100 times: you can't change th...

                                                                                                                        🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 "Your body can stand almost anything.  It's your mind that you have to  convince ."                          It's Day 590 of Nutrisystem. Today was a frustrating day. iFit had an outage this morning so instead of getting in a scheduled workout I just walked on the treadmill in manual mode. When I got home tonight the treadmill didn't want to connect to iFit even though the app is working. Instead of more mindless walking on the treadmill I used the ...