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February 13, 2017By Josephine Fitzpatrick

Life Is About Choices

Yay! It’s Monday!!! It’s the start of another healthy week. Another week where you can see a new low by the end of it. Another week where you can make all the right choices and feel amazing! Don’t look at Monday like it’s the start of just a boring work week – look at it like it’s the beginning of another week where you are learning to love to live healthy!!!! Everything in life is a cycle. When we ride it the right way we can live it the best way. You start your week off amazing and you continue on that path regardless of what gets in your way. You need to make the right choices so that by the end of the week you accomplished another healthy, happy week where you know your numbers will reflect your hard work. Every day is an opportunity to do the right thing for yourself, your mind and your body. Only you can make today a GREAT DAY! Only you can make today a HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS DAY! Only you can do the RIGHT THINGS AND STAY ON YOUR PATH TO REACH YOUR GOALS! Remind yourself how important it is to you and remind yourself how much you want it. How you look at the day and the week will reflect on how your results will be.

VALENTINE’S DAY!

Love is in the air and today on Long Island it’s blowing around like crazy! Hopefully cupid has a steady shot – because he can easily mix up some arrows in this wind. Be prepared for the week and especially for tomorrow. Many of you waited to have your Cheat Day until tomorrow (so proud of you)! That was the smart thing to do when you know that you either have dinner plans or are weak when it comes to those heart shaped chocolates! For those of you who waited, you get to enjoy and not think about what you will order in advance!

If you had your Cheat Day this past weekend you made your choice and you have to stay 110% tomorrow because there is no free pass because it’s Valentines Day. If you are lucky enough to be “In Love” then that should be enough and food a distant second. If your “Love” is not enough tomorrow then you need to focus on what you will have and stick to it. Regardless of where you are going or what you are doing you can order a clean meal…and save your snacks for your drinks. There is always an on program option you just have to make it.

See, when it comes to weight loss it is all about making choices. The Cheat Day helps you do that. That’s why you can’t split them. You can’t have more than one and you can’t pretend it wasn’t bad because you only had “one thing off the whole day.” The whole idea of the Cheat Day is to choose what day is most important to you each week and enjoy it. It’s for you to understand and accept that you CAN HAVE IT – just not everyday. And ONE DAY A WEEK should be more than enough for you. But it does require making choices. Because if you don’t take the time to think and make a choice – you are basically giving yourself freedom to have more than one Cheat Day. And that never works. So if Valentine’s Day is important to you to cheat, then you should have waited and had a clean weekend and have your Cheat Day on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t matter if you were going out to dinner on the weekend – it’s a choice. It doesn’t matter if you were only a “little off” on your Cheat Day – you made a choice. You make your choices and you know that Off is Off. If you were off for a day or a meal or even just a dessert – you made the choice to have your day and now you move on until next week. The cheat day only works when your other 6 days are a 110%. You have to make choices and those choices will reflect whether you lose, gain or maintain. You can’t just “wing it” and it just can’t be “a little here and a little there”. When you want to lose weight and keep it off it has to be one Cheat Day a week – no exceptions. Once you start writing your own rules and have a cheat dinner Saturday and then you do a cheat Valentine’s day – You have made the choice to be OFF TWO DAYS in one week…and that is no longer a weight loss week. And whether you maintain or gain will depend on how 110% the rest of your 5 days are.

One Cheat Day is what you get and you should be thrilled with that. When you make the right choices it can and should really work for you in a very positive way. If you really want to see your numbers go down you have to follow it 110% 6 days clean and 1 day off. It’s simple and it’s only when you start writing your own rules and making the choice that ONE Cheat Day a week is no longer enough for you is when you will start gaining. Choices are hard. But when we were young we were taught how important it is to make the right choices – and it’s what we teach our children – If you want success you have to make good choices. It’s time to start living what we teach and preach – and make the right choice that you know will work for you. So when tomorrow rolls around and it’s “Valentines Day” and you already had your Cheat Day you have to make the choice – Do you want to lose weight this week? If you want to lose weight then you eat clean on Valentine’s Day and save your candy for your Cheat Day! If you want to gain weight or maintain then you have your Valentine’s Day dinner and candy and live with the consequences that it was more important to you then losing this week.

Life is all about making choices and when we do the right things and plan we can be amazing. I know it’s not easy. But it’s worth it. Because when you get on the scale you want to see that number lower. You want to feel good and lighter and one step closer to your goal. If you see the number goes up or doesn’t change from the prior week – I promise you that if you can even remember what you ate and drank to cause it – you will think it so wasn’t worth it.

Besides do you really want to over eat on Valentine’s Day? Do you really want to end the night with the one you love stuffed and bloated?

If you want to reach your goals your choices have to reflect what you want. Your choices have to be planned. Your choices have to be the most important thing you make this week.

Life is about making choices and when you make the right ones for your body, and mind, you will realize that making the right choice is so much easier than regretting the wrong one.

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

REMEMBER VALENTINES DAY IS ABOUT LOVE AND CAN BE SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST A SIGNIFICANT OTHER

ALL THE LOVE IN YOUR LIFE MATTER ON VALENTINE’S DAY

MOM, DAD, CHILDREN, SISTERS, BROTHERS, AUNTS, UNCLES, FRIENDS, COUSINS, BABYSITTERS….

SPREAD THE LOVE AND GIVE HUGS FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

A HUG CAN CHANGE A DAY AND MAKE SOMEONE FEEL REALLY SPECIAL

~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick

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January 23, 2017By Josephine Fitzpatrick

January Is Almost Over

January is coming to an end. I want you to take a moment and look back. Are you where you thought you would be? Have you stayed true to yourself and your program? Do you remember December when you were convinced you just couldn’t wait to eat clean and go back on program and do all the right things? You were so upset with how quickly you put the pounds on and promised yourself that January was going to be your month to feel good and get back to the person you love to be. For those of you who did exactly that – I give you a big congratulations as I know there are so many that are doing amazing and I’m truly so proud of you all for working hard everyday. I know how hard this is. I see first hand the struggle is real. With temptations and pressures of work, jobs, friends, family. It’s so easy to give in. We all get weak sometimes…even my sharks get weak. What you have to always remember is there will always be something going on…happy, sad, good, bad, celebrations, peer pressure, job, family, friends, health. The list goes on and on. This is life and what makes life so truly amazing is the ups and downs we go through to get to where we are each day.

What is important and what I want you to always remember this – When you feel good about yourself, and when you feel healthy and strong anything life throws at you is always going to be easier to get through. There is a sense of power when you feel good about yourself. There is really no denying it – when you are healthy, thin, fit, and your clothes fit you – it puts you in a good place physically and mentally. Your problems make you less upset. You no longer get upset over every little thing. You are not short with your spouse or your children. Everything seems easier to get through – Can’t pay a bill? Who cares my jeans fit me; Homework coming out of my ears? – Who cares the scale was amazing this morning. Instead of hiding from everyone – you can’t wait to socialize and see people. You see, over all when you do the right things for you body and mind…and when you have control over your food and what you are putting in your body to make you feel good – it just makes everything in life easier and makes you a happier person.

Here are some tips for the next time temptation shows up on your healthy path:

1) Remember before you go off program because you are stressed or because of anything that is not going right in your life – remind yourself going off program is going to make it worse not better. The one thing you can control is your food and how you want to look and feel. If you stay on program you will be able to handle whatever is in your way that day.

2) When my sharks get weak they have an extra on program snack. They don’t turn one “off” moment into a reason to cheat the entire day, night and week. If you feel weak and you need something, choose one more on program snack. Most of the time it’s not hunger you are feeding so whatever you have that is on program will help you and it will keep you mentally in the game knowing that you are still on program.

3) Send in your food. The clients who send Me and Thea their food and drink every night do the very best. It is an accountability for you and it helps us evaluate what you are doing and give us the opportunity to change things if we need to.

4) Remember your promise to yourself. Think about December and how you felt. Think about your next vacation and how you WANT to feel. Constantly remind yourself that this is important to you. Remember there is never any judgment on our part. We know how hard it is and we want you to succeed. No one wants this for you more than we do. So if you fall off you simply reach out and we will get you right back on. I don’t care if it happens 5, 10 or 100 times. You have to keep trying and you will eventually succeed. Not everyone succeeds the first time. You just don’t know that because you only see the final product of someone else’s success. I know what it takes them to get there. And for many, it’s more than once until they really get it and do the very best. — Do not wait until you get to a decent number before you reach out. That is never a good thing. It’s like waiting to look good to go to the gym. When you have lost your way and are struggling we are here to get you back on your healthy path.

5) Remember this is a journey – a work in progress. There is no end to eating clean and doing the right things for your body and mind. Even when you reach goal you still have to eat clean and do the right things – so stop looking and feeling like you can’t wait until it’s over – it’s never over. It’s just a matter of what part of the journey you spend the most time in.

THERE IS TRULY NOTHING MORE POWERFUL

THAN FEELING AMAZING

CONTEST REMINDER:

ALL WEIGHTS MUST BE IN BY THE END OF TODAY

~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick

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8031 Jericho Tpke Woodbury, NY 11797

211 43rd Street Manhattan, NY 10017

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January 23, 2017By Josephine Fitzpatrick

2017! Ring It In With Motivation

I’m sure you already listed your resolutions and wrote down your goals. What you have to decide now is are they goals you really want to reach or are they just a dream that you keep writing down every year. Are you willing to do whatever it takes to get there – Are you willing to be a little hungry? Walk away? Say “No Thank You!”?

Did you know that 90% of resolutions are to lose weight? Most give up within the first 3 weeks. Why? Because they are looking for the quick fix. They go on the cleanse and shakes that are impossible to sustain, or the fad diets that are all temporary quick fixes that end up making you gain 5 pounds more than when you started. These are not things that you don’t already know. Most of you have been there and done that.

But this year you know that’s not who you are. For those of you who have been on program you know that after vacation and holidays the best thing you can do is get back on track and on your healthy path. There is no looking back, and what’s important is moving forward. Consistency is key and after a week you will have most of the new weight off and you will begin to feel amazing again.

If you haven’t figured it out yet you will come to learn that only when you change how you look at and feel about food mentally is when you will physically change.

Whether you are trying to get back on track or starting new, here are some tips that will help you:

– If you are even thinking of pushing off your starting day another day or week you need to refocus right now and realize that life is never going to stop for you to lose weight. Start now and make it happen. You will always have a party, an event and dinners out. You need to make this a way of life and the only way to do that is to incorporate the parties and the dinners and learn how to eat at them.
– If you have a lunch or dinner out and it’s not your Cheat Day – You should NEVER EVER be THINKING…“Should I stay clean or go off?” – WHAT?! Never should that even be a thought. There is no should I or could I. There are no deals to be made with yourself. You have done plenty of that and look at where it has gotten you. You need to be in SHARK mode and if it’s not your Cheat Day then you are on program regardless of where you are or what you have going on in your life.
– If you are ever feeling a little weak – Take out your skinny pants and try them on. Look online for a bathing suit you want to be in. Shorts and sun dresses – because the next vacation along with spring will be here in a blink of an eye. This is the time you get in shape. You start now – you don’t wait for it to be here and then try and start. You do it now so when vacations and warm weather arrive you are ready!

From all my clients all around the world this is what I can tell you for sure – Aside from all the health issues obesity can cause – extra weight on your body makes you look and act old. Sometimes we don’t even see it until it’s off. We know we are not looking and feeling our best but then when we lose the weight we think – WOW that’s what I looked like before? Clients send me before and after pictures all the time. The differences are beyond amazing. They tell me how they feel amazing and love to wake up feeling lighter, fitter and just simply happier. They no longer wake up afraid of having health problems. They don’t wake up wondering if they will stay on – they just do the right thing because they know how important it is to their health, both mentally and physically. They don’t wake up trying to figure out quick fixes to get the weight off. They have learned how to work everyday toward their healthy lifestyle and goals. Most of all, they love the way they feel – and how they are viewed by everyone around them. How every where they go someone will comment how great they look. How amazing they feel when people look at them like they have it all together. If it sounds vain to you – they don’t care! They are the happy – and you are not. You have to learn to stop making excuses and judging those around you and instead put the focus on yourself. If you want to be and feel like they do then you have to start putting your words into actions – not just today but everyday.

You have to do what is going to make you happy

and stop doing what you know makes you so unhappy!

You have seen so many of our before and afters and so many of you know each other and have seen first hand the changes in your friends and acquaintances. So you have to ask yourself going into 2017- Who do you want to be?

The unhealthy, out of shape, tired all the time and unable to recognize yourself person. The friend, wife, husband, mother, daughter, son who is upset and unhappy and even sometimes angry at yourself and those around you because you have still not made yourself important enough to do this for. OR – A younger version of you! Thin and fit, waking up lighter, clothes fitting you and feeling amazing in them, feeling healthier and just simply happy all the time. Because it’s true when you are thin and fit and healthy – you get through all the nonsense that is in your life so much better and easier than when you are out of shape and overweight. Life is just always going to be easier when you do the right thing. And if losing weight and feeling great fits into your “doing the right things” then you better start prioritizing where you are now and where you want to be.

Did you know that studies show that unhealthy and over weight people get angrier over unimportant issues 5x faster than healthy fit people. Most likely the reason is because unhealthy and overweight people tend to start their day unhappy and frustrated to begin with. So as the day goes on so does their temper.

So next time you think “should I eat it or should I stay on program?” Remind yourself it’s not just extra food or unhealthy food that you are debating about – What you really are debating is do you want to add another unhappy day to your life and to the life of those around you. Do you want to continue to feel unsettled and out of control with your unhealthy eating habits and more importantly unhappy with who you are and who you have become. Is it really worth what you will be going off program for.

You will always be faced with challenges but you must constantly remind yourself how important this is to you and those who love you. Remind yourself constantly how much you want this. How much better you feel when you stay strong and on your path. It is only when you have this self motivation and consistency of eating clean and on program that you will truly feel better each day. You will feel more in control and wake up feeling healthier and happier. In just a couple of days you will feel better and in a couple of weeks you will wake up like a Shark – doing the right thing, feeling lighter and fitter each day – and all because you finally made the decision that 2017 is going to be your year to be Happy, Healthy, Fit and Strong. And NOTHING is going to get in your way.

“Create The Life You Can’t Wait To Wake Up To”

LIKE COREY DID

HE LOVES THE LIFE HE LIVES AND LIVES THE LIFE HE LOVES