My Nutrisystem Journey

                                                                                          🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 " Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive  yourself and be good to yourself,  because without you the rest of us  are without a source of many  wonderful things."   ~ Leo Buscaglia ~  It's day 628 of Nutrisystem. I'm trying to stay focused on positive things these days and this quote fit the bill. I spent too many years hating myself and being jealous of others instead of looking for ways to improve my own life. Nutrisystem helped me climb out of that abyss of negativity because it turned my focus inward. When I began to examine how my weight got so out of control I had no choice but to admit it ...

                                                                                              🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 "Remember that you are in charge of  your life. You can do  anything that  you set your mind to. Get in the right  frame of mind, set some goals and  attack the week. Be proactive,  take  charge and remember that you  are awesome.   ~ Tony T Robinson ~  It's day 627 of Nutrisystem. This was the perfect quote for a frosty Monday morning ! There was a time that I wasn't really in charge of my life. I let outside influences take me down roads that were not in my best interest. Once things changed and I was on my own again I didn't really have a purpose in life. For ...

                                                                                                🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 " “Every great journey begins with one step and it begins  with moving forward, turning on the engine, and shifting  into the right gear at the right time. Remember, going  through pain is temporary and it will subside, but  quitting, on the other hand, lasts forever.” ~Louie Herron~ It's day 626 of Nutrisystem. Some days it takes me a while to find inspiration and this lazy Sunday was one of them. The past 626 days have certainly been a great journey, one that continues. This odyssey started with one big step - hitting submit on the Nutrisystem website. Committing to an expensive prog...

                                                                                             🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 "When you face your fear, most of the time you will  discover that it wasn't really such a big threat after all.  We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful  motivation. It empowers us to overcome obstacles so  we can live our dreams ."  ~Les Brown~ It's day 625 of Nutrisystem. This was the perfect quote for today because I was facing the scale this morning. Even though I had been sticking to the Nutrisystem program and exercising every day I was still worried about the number that would pop up on the display. In this case the fear was absolutely not such a big threat.  *^*^*^*...

                                                                                                               🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 "The first step to change is accepting your reality   right  now. Honoring your process. Compassionate  self-awareness  leads to change; harsh self-criticism  only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn  and  defensive basic self. Be gentle with yourself as  you would  with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give  yourself the space to  grow."  ~Dan Millman~ It's day 624 of Nutrisystem. I found a lot of truth in this quote. Stubborn and defensive is a good way to describe the old me, ...

                                                                                                               🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 "D o not wait; the time will never be 'just right'.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever  tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. " It's day 623 of Nutrisystem. Start where you stand. That's something I am trying to actively embrace. Prior to the fire I would look around my house and there was so much that needed to be done that I didn't know where to start. As a result I sat there and did nothing. I was overwhelmed and if I couldn't do it all at once I didn't even bother to try. I would tell ...

                                                                                                 🖤   Get well soon Tommy ! #teamrivs #RageOn 🖤 "T he portal to happiness is embracing the pain you have  suffered in life and turning it into strength and encouragement that you can do anything in your future . "  It's day 622 of Nutrisystem. This quote inspires me and means something to me, but it's also another example of something you can really only relate to once life starts to get better. I can embrace all that pain now, but a couple years ago I was still in the "poor me" and "why me" stages and I was embracing nothing. I was the victim. I wallowed in self pity. Nothing was my fault. The whole world was against me. I ate for comf...