Today has been a FABULOUS DAY..... I went to town with my daughter and grandaughter and was delighted to see all the summer sales had started.... like all of us I do like a bargain..... and FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DONKEYS YEARS I TRIED CLOTHES ON IN A CHANGING ROOM!!!!!!!!
This is not a huge thing for most people but when I started petecohen.tv on Day 1 i was hardly able to sqeeze myself into a very generous size 36!!!! I had to buy 2nd had clothes online, as nothing in the high street went anywere near me, and I spent most of my life in baggy nightshirts hardly able to leave the house as i was nearly 28 stone on a 5'3 frame, riddled with arthiritis and recovering from major cancer surgery too, so every day I was in so much pain i didnt know where to put myself!!! I would drive out at midnight to do banking in the nightsave so I didnt get the micky taken out of me, or crawl around a supermarket hanging over the trolly for support just to pick u a few essentials, but done all my shopping online...... So TODAY.... THIS WONDERFUL DAY...... I SHOPPED SOLID FOR 4 HOURS, DIDNT HAVE TO SIT DOWN ONCE....... I GOT INTO A SIZE 22 FROM BHS A SHOP I WOULD NEVER HAVE DREAMT OF EVER BUYING IN.... I CAME AWAY FROM ANN HARVEYS WITH 2 CARRIER BAGS FULL OF SIZE 22'S........... AND BRIGHT BRIGHT LOVELY SUMMER COLOURS, NOT THE BLACKS AND BROWNS FROM PRE petecohen.tv........
I stlll have a long way to go , I will be 5 stone lighter, by my birthday in February, and then i will be a size 16 which is the size that dreams were only made of before I joined Pete and his merry band of bloggers.
Today my daughter and grandaughter got tired before I did, and virtually dragged me back to the school screaming and shouting that i had more shopping to do !!!!
So if anyone is wobbling, or weebling or struggling take faith from this entry, and its simple as can be ....... dont just lose weight, become EXCEPTIONAL at losing weight, be as EXCEPTIONAL at losing weight as you are at loving your family and caring for them, or as you are in your relationship and loving your partner, or your work, apply that steely determination that nothing and no one will get in your way of being the best you can be....... and all your dreams will come true as mine are on a daily basis.
Thankyou Pete, my friend and hero, thankyou bloggers for always being there, This is the ONLY weight loss system you will ever have to do ever ever again.
Loads of love and a very happy size 22 Sue here in Norfolk
Did you know that a study by Yale University on goal setting was carried out in the 1950’s. The researchers surveyed those who graduated in 1953 to determine how many of them had specific, written goals for their future, only 3% of them had. Twenty years later, the researchers surveyed the surviving members of the original group and found that the 3% who’d set goals had accumulated more personal financial wealth than the other 97% of the class combined! Whilst goal setting and happiness are not all about money, this anecdote shows how powerful we can be when we set our mind to something.
However many of us do not focus on positive outcomes, we prefer to obsess about what we don’t want, or centre on what is missing in their life. For such people, it’s easy to forget what’s great, what’s working in their lives and what resources they have to create even more happiness and success. Because we tend to get what we focus on, when we focus on what’s not working or spend time wondering why bad things always seem to happen, then we merely get more of what we don’t want. What’s the point of that?
It’s also important to remember that few of us have a 100% hit rate so there may be times when you set a goal and make a mistake or find that your goal doesn’t work. This is not the end of the world! At this point you have a choice: you can get all flustered, beat yourself up and go back to wandering about without direction – or you can learn from the experience and move on.
When setting your goals is to clarify why you want this outcome. If your goals are about things that you need in your life and will benefit you and others, you’ll feel happy when you achieve. But if you set goals just because you think you should, or to please other people, you may not feel that special even when you do achieve what you set out to do. It’s important to ask yourself ‘What’s in it for me?’
What does every single one of us have in common? What do you have in common with the woman sitting next to you on the bus? Or with the guy who fixes your boiler? Or even with your teenage daughter? Male, female, old, young, rich, poor, black or white - each of us has problems. No matter how good your life appears, chances are you’re not completely happy with your lot. In fact, a recent BBC survey undertaken for the programme The Happiness Formula found that the number of people who say they’re ‘very happy’ has fallen from 52% in 1957 to just 36% today.
The five problems that people find hardest to deal with are relationships, money, career, body image and fear and when things go wrong we can feel like the world’s coming to an end. But the truth of the matter is that as soon as we start to worry about something - like how we’re going to pay off our credit card bill or the fact we’ve got two weeks to fit into our bikini - we react in the way that we’ve always reacted. Without thinking about it, we fall into the trap of thinking ‘I can’t do anything’, ‘I feel useless’ or ‘I wish this would go away!’ We’re so used to feeling powerless that we don’t stop to think how we could do something differently.
