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How Do You Measure Success? – #NSNation Update – Week 10
How do you measure success? When losing weight, it is definitely a hard measure. That is why it is so important to set up mini-goals. I bring this up, because I think we are hard on ourselves in a weight loss journey. We want the weight off, and we want it off now! However, I didn’t add 100 lbs overnight. It took me many, many, many years to do this (and 2 babies LOL). Truly, that is the mindset you have to have losing weight. I can’t loss 100 lbs overnight (and if you did, you’d probably give yourself a heart attack!). You also have to lose weight smartly. The goal is to lose 1 – 2 lbs a week. Now, I’ve seen all those diets out there that have you just drinking shakes and not eat real food. Well, what do you think happens when you eat again? You guessed it. You put all the weight back on (and sometimes more!). Now, I know that doesn’t hold true for everyone, but I think for the majority it does.
Back to success though, my end goal is 100 lbs. Now, as of last week, I lost 25 pounds! (WOOHOOO!) Is that a success or a failure? Since I haven’t lost 25 lbs yet, have I failed? I know you are all screaming no to me, and I have to agree. That is why I try (key word here is try) not to get to hung up in the numbers. I had a week where I lost nothing, and you all encouraged me (and my favorite comment was the person who told me to look at it as that I didn’t gain anything either!). Did I fail that week? No! I ended up losing an additional 3.6 lbs the next week! Granted, I would love to lose 5 lbs. a week, but that isn’t going to happen. If it did, I’m probably not losing the weight in healthy way. Would I like to have lost those 25 lbs faster? Well, who wouldn’t? Is it failure because it took me 9 weeks instead of 4? Absolutely not!
That is what using Nutrisytem is all about. Losing weight in a healthy fashion, learning portion sizes (because we have been brainwashed on a true portion size), and I have to say loving yourself. I’ve learned in this journey with all your comments that are a ton of people out there who care how I am doing both in real life and on the internet. That gives me the motivation to keep going and keep losing more weight. It makes me accountable to not only myself but to all of you.
Success is about meeting your goals. However, being realistic is also part of that. If you don’t quite meet your goal, that isn’t failure. You just keep trying (like we tell our kids) to do our best or like Dory from Finding Nemo says “just keep swimming”. My daughter is struggling in math on timed tests. I didn’t tell her she sucked (like we often do to ourselves when we don’t lose as much weight as we want). Instead, my husband and I gave her tools and goals to work towards. We now take a timed test every night, so she gets a sense of how long she really has. We have incentives. If she finishes the timed test, we get McDonalds for supper (as I don’t mean me in that we. My kids get McDonalds and I still eat my Nutrisystem meal). Now, her last goal is to finish the test and get 100% on it. If she does that, she gets a new Skylander for our Wii game. Instead of setting her up to fail, we have set her up to succeed.
You also have to do that with weight loss. Get rid of the foods that tempt you. I don’t keep Doritos in the house for that very reason! Change your milk to skim, your bread to wheat, and your cheese to nonfat. Small changes help just as much as big changes.
Set yourself up for success! Now, I think I’ve talked in enough circles for you all. :) I know you are awaiting this week’s progress or should we say success.
THIS WEEKS WEIGHT LOSS: 2.0
TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS: 27
My success this week? I’ve lost over 25 lbs. and now I am below 200 lbs!!! For as hard as it is to admit that, I have to own it. Only 73 more to go!
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Gift Card Beware!
I’ve gotten this same email about five times now, so I wanted to give everyone a heads up that if you tend to give gift cards around the holidays, you need to be careful that the cards will be honored after the holidays. Stores that are planning to close after Christmas are still selling the cards through the holidays even though the cards will be worthless January 1. There is no law preventing them from doing this. Below is a partial list of stores that you need to be cautious about:
Circuit City (filed Chapter 11)
Ann Taylor- 117 stores nationwide closing
Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine’s to close 150 stores nationwide
Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January
Cache will close all stores
Talbots closing down specialty stores
J. Jill closing all stores (owned by Talbots)
Pacific Sunwear (also owne d by Talbots)
GAP closing 85 stores
Footlocker closing 140 stores mo re to close after January
Wickes Furniture closing down
Levitz closing down remaining stores
Bombay closing remaining stores
Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January
Whitehall closing all stores
Piercing Pagoda closing all stores
Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.
Home Depot closing 15 stores 1 in NJ ( New Brunswick )
Macys to close 9 stores after January
Linens and Things closing all stores
Movie Galley Closing all stores
Pep Boys Closing 33 stores
Sprint/Nextel closing 133 stores
JC Penney closing a number of stores after January
Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.
Wilson Leather closing down all stores
Sharper Image closing down all stor~s
K B Toys closing 356 stores
Loews to close down some stores
Dillard’s to close some stores
(If any of these stores are wrong, let me know so I can correct it. Snopes has confirmed some of these)
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Mismatched outfits . . .Oh my!
Between my husband and my kids, I am amazed that I even go out in public with them. 
My husband has no idea what matches. Some days he comes home from work, and I cringe when I see what he was wearing. Unfortunately, Madison (my 4 year old) takes after him. If you don’t believe me, look at the picture to the left. Granted, I have seen worse (I just don’t have any pictures. LOL) I am not sure when yellow matched with purple. You can’t tell, but her socks are pulled up as high as they go. She also put dress shoes on! Needless to say, I did not take her out in public that day. I never make her change when she mismatches her clothes — we just don’t go anywhere that day.
I’ll be honest — I am afraid of her getting Barbies or one of those Polly Pocket sets just because of her fashion sense. If she dresses herself like this, how is she going to dress her dolls or would she just leave them naked all the time? Then again, it may be pretty humorous. Do you have any pictures of your children with mismatched outfits? Do you let them wear them or do you make them change? Any advice for me?
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