Choices and Consequences

Don’t you just wish you could wake up and shower your fat away. Just jump in the shower and all the over eating and drinking that you consumed would just wash right down the drain. Unfortunately, as you all know, it’s not the case. But I am working on the invention! In the meantime, any weight that you have put on over the summer is here to stay until you make the effort and work hard to take it off. Better to be sooner rather than later because if you don’t do it now it will just continue to grow.

There are many people today who really struggled to get dressed for work. They are bloated and the reality of real life has come back in a quick and fierce way. If this is you – don’t be disappointed. This isn’t something that happened without you. As we all know life can sometimes make choices for us. They are the choices that are usually very unhappy and unfair. Things that we have no control over and things we wish we could change but we can’t. But for most of you, you are lucky enough to have control over your destiny, your life, how you live, treat others, and how you look and feel. If you feel run down after a long summer, and you are disappointed in the choices you have made and the place you have gotten to, I can tell you to not even bother sitting and feeling sorry for yourself or wonder “why do you always do it to yourself”. Don’t waste useless energy in things that really don’t matter. Because why you did it will not change today. It will not change where you are and where you want to be, and it will not change your happiness in how you feel this moment. Use the energy you have to get back on program and don’t look back. Keep it all in the positive because that’s the only way to succeed and move forward to your goals. It’s a choice in the right direction and will pay off with great consequences.

Unfortunately we don’t often think about the consequences until it’s too late. Many times that is because we don’t see it happening. We eat unhealthy and think nothing happened so we do it again and again. Before you know it —10lbs up and crying eyes. How? Why? What can I do? What can I take to make it go away? There has to be some quick fix!!! But there isn’t. No magic, no quick fixes only HARD WORK AND COMMITMENT! The very best thing to do is suck it up! Deal with it — and move on. Back to 110% on program and start eating clean on program. If you start today this is what your week will look like…

TODAY: (YOU) Ugh. I’m so hungry – all I can think of is food. (J&T) Of course you are hungry because all you did was eat and drink all summer. Even if you didn’t cheat every day, you ate more than you needed for weight loss and now now you have to train your body and your brain to go back to eating less. Think of it as the price you pay for where you put yourself. There is nothing you can do except stay on program and eat clean. That is what will make you feel better. Stay strong and get through it with your meals and snacks, tea, coffee, and we promise it will pass.

WEDNESDAY: (YOU) Still feeling bloated and I’m still hungry. It’s soooooo hard. It’s sooo much harder for me than other people. I was always a slow loser. (J&T) Stay strong and on your path. I promise that you are not a slow loser you just need to stay on program and the consistency will get you to where you want to be. The first couple of days are the hardest. You can do this and you have to remember how much you want it. Remember how tight your clothes feel. You don’t want that. You want to feel good when you get dressed. Staying on program will give you that. You see other clients around you that look and feel great. Keep reminding yourself how much you want that.

THURSDAY: (YOU) I don’t understand, I have been eating clean why isn’t the weight just falling off of me (J&T) It’s Thursday morning, you only started Tuesday. That’s only two days of clean eating. I’m sorry but just because you ate clean for two days is not going to change the damage that fast. Right now patience is key! It takes more than two clean days. By the end of the week you will feel better. Don’t look for excuses to go off program. Stay strong and stick to your food and snacks. It’s more than enough for you. The hunger is mental. Keep busy this week.

FRIDAY: (YOU) Wow I can’t believe it I feel so much better you were right. I am not bloated and not as hungry and my Cheat Day is in two days already. I can do this. I woke up feeling so much lighter so I stepped on the scale (even though you always tell me not to unless it’s cheat day). It went down 🙂 Yay!!!! (J&T) Awesome. You are doing great!!!!! It’s only Friday so stay mindful and stay on your path and no cheating. You feel better because you have been doing the right things. No sips, bites or taste of anything that is not on program until Cheat Day. Just because your numbers went down doesn’t give you the green light to cheat today. You need the consecutive clean days to see the difference or you will go right back to where you started. Fat cells are closing – they will only completely close if you stay on program.

SATURDAY: (YOU) I’M SO HAPPY!!! I feel so much better I can’t believe what a week has done. Why do I even go off program when I know I feel so much better on program!!!!! I feel so much lighter and I’m not hungry and my numbers are going down and tomorrow is Cheat Day. I’m never going off program again!! I’m so much happier on program and feel so much better when I take care of my body. I love the way I look and feel. (J&T) WE ARE SO SO happy for you!!!! We knew you would do it. If you want it enough you put the work in and get through the tough spots and it pays off. You fueled your body this week on program and it paid off it the most amazing ways. Fabulous!!!

SUNDAY: (YOU) Cheat day!!!! I made the week and I feel great. I don’t even want to cheat but I have to right???? I feel so good. My numbers are down and I’m so happy. Thank you so much for getting me through this week. yay!!!! (J&T) We are so Super excited and happy for you!!!! You did it. We knew you could and you proved to yourself what is most important to you. We love that. Great job! Enjoy your cheat day and right back on program tomorrow!!!

EVERY CONVERSATION ABOVE = CHOICE & CONSEQUENCE! You reach out = we are always there for you! Together we get to a better place and together we reach your goal.

You can see consequences aren’t always bad. They are the result of a good or bad choice. So when you do the right things and get through the tough days (which everyone has) you will see the consequences are so worth it. You will do amazing and feel amazing and you will wonder why you ever did anything to not make you feel this way. You start to change and see the way you treat people around you – Sharing your happiness. Loving the way you look and the feeling is contagious and you just want everyone to know it and feel it. There is no better way to live than to take care of your body and mind. It changes you as a person. Last week you were miserable knowing that your clothes were tight and it made you moody and cranky (choice = consequence). But now being back on program for one week will change so much for you. Just one week will give you direction and makes you feel powerful in your choices and your body. Knowing that you are doing the right things and on the right path to make you feel the best you can be (choice = consequence).

Final thoughts going into September: Your happiness will always lie within the choices you make for yourself today and moving forward. Looking back is for memories. Today you either accept that life isn’t the way you want it to be, or you change it so it will be. You can sit and dream or you can make your dreams come true. Don’t live in the past. Think and plan about your future. What do you want and how do you want to feel. Start with a small goal that follows with a bigger goal. Example: Next weekend you want to feel better and be lighter but by Halloween you want to be shopping for fall clothes or pumpkin picking with your favorite jeans on.

The choice you make to go back on program, eat clean and feel better, healthier, thinner and lighter is a choice that you are making for your overall happiness and the happiness for those who love you.

~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick

Innovation Weight Loss and Fitness

8031 Jericho Take Woodbury, NY 11797

211 E 43rd Street Manhattan, NY 10019