Day 1. Habit Stack Challenge: Mindset Matters Most

 To start off the year 2024 I am participating in a "Habit Stacking Challenge".  Basically it's to focus on some key Habits that we need to succeed.  It's not the Goal that will get you to where you want to go, but your Habits!!  If we don't establish Habits in our life, we'll just fall back into old patterns and Habits we've been repeating over and over again most of our lives.  So often, we say, "that's just the way I am," when in actuality it is just a Habit we've repeated so many times we don't even think about what we are doing anymore.  For example, falling into a pattern of eating pizza and other easy foods, because we've become so accustomed to those easy habits in life we don't have to think about.  That even goes for the way we've been thinking and believing about things.  

Whether we believe we can or we can't, we're right!  Ultimately, everything comes back to our mindset because our mindset will dictate the actions we take! 

So, for Day 1: Mindset Matters Most, it is to come up with my own 3 quotes that will help create that mindset for success. 

1. Push yourself, because No One else is going to do it for you!  I chose this because when I am home in my own world, none of my fellow fitness comrades are there to tell be to get out in the garage for my workout or in the kitchen with me making sure I'm eating the right foods that will help me reach my health/fitness goals.  No one is there looking over my shoulder telling me what to and not to eat.  I have to do this on my own!  Even my husband will not truly make me chose the right things for my goals.  Nor will he tell me to get out in the garage to do my workout. I HAVE to make those choices for myself!! 

2.  You Either Quit, or Keep Going! They Both Hurt!  I saw this quote recently on Facebook and felt it was very appropriate and true!!  I feel like I've done both!! At different times over the years I've done both of these things.  I've kept going when I didn't really feel like it. I've also just kind of quit many times over the years, too.  Quitting Hurts!! Because I know in my heart that I should just keep going, but I don't.  And then I feel bad about myself and my self-confidence lowers and I get upset and beat myself up for having not kept going, for whatever reason.  Sometimes it feels so much easier to just not put in the effort.  But in actuality, It Hurts!! Because then all I worked so hard to accomplish is all wasted away and fall backwards in so many ways.  Now I have to worked even harder to get back to where I was!!  The "pain" of Keep Going is the "pain" of discipline.  The Pain of doing something, even though I don't "feel like it" in that moment. The "pain" of keep going is to make some sacrifices for things I might have to give up for a short time or the time it takes to work towards my goal.  

3. Act As If...Right now I feel fat and weak and self-defeated...because of #2 above...the quitting part.  The past year I have acted as if I was lazy and procrastinated.  I acted as if I didn't have any motivation or drive to BE healthy or strong and fit. My mindset has shifted to a "I give up" attitude and self-limiting belief that I can't "keep going".  I've been acting as if I don't believe in myself and that I don't believe that I can Keep Going and that I'll just Quit yet again.   I NEED to change that belief and way of thinking.  I need to Act As If I CAN do this and that I won't  fall backwards yet again.  I have to Act As If I am Strong and Act As If this is truly a lifestyle and not just something I do for a few months and then give up.  Act As If I am a winner in my own life and a winner at achieving my goals.  

"Discipline is Built by Creating Habits we Repeat"

Day 1: 01/01/24 "before" pic:

Love Life, Let Go, Breathe Deeply!

Love Life, Let Go, Breathe Deeply!

I think this will be my theme for the remainder of this month of June.
It needs to be.  A huge transition will be taking place in my situation the first of July.
I will have to consciously look and be aware of what's good in my life and not focus on what is not good.
I will have to face the true reality of letting go of something that has been in my life for the past 23 years.
And I will have to Breathe Deeply to get through these days.

This transition could pose an opportunity to fall back into negative emotional patterns of poor food choices and not doing my workouts..as I have let myself do this in the past.
So, The Summer Extravaganza couldn't come at a better time to help  me with that focus.  The power of accountability.  The power of positive support and encouragement.  But Ultimately I will choose!  I will make the choice!


Got the workout done tonight!  With some help from some powerful visualization from the Awesome Elaine!
"I want to work my body tomorrow.  I want to push beyond.  I want to gasp for breath, see stars behind my eyelids, feel the burn, be wiping snot and sweat onto my t-shirt.  I want to turn red in the face.  I want my hair to look like a rat's nest.  I want people to think I peed my pants from the sweat circles around my crotch.  I want to feel dizzy, woozy and wobble-legged when I walk out of the gym tomorrow.  I want to get into my car, rest my head on the steering wheel and cry tears of relief and joy.  I want all those natural chemicals to rush from my head through my body.  I want to feel like I've worked.  Like I gave my all and have nothing left to give.  Like I'm alive.

I want it...I'm going after it. "  ~Elaine Morales


Tomorrow(Friday) I will be having the Novasure procedure done at 10:30 am...so be thinking of me.  I will be under anesthesia, but the procedure will only take about 15 minutes.  This procedure will cut back drastically my monthly cycle!  This is my "Love Life" moment for the next day.  I can't wait to experience the results of this procedure!

Happy Mother's Day! Prelude to a Massive Mission

Today, May 8, 2011 is Mother's Day. Thank God it was today and not tomorrow (or any other day past today).
My kids treated me to homemade pizza!! It was so good. And I had too much! But what a special treat to have my kids make me dinner..with their own hands(with a little help from daddy, of course)!

It is the prelude to a massive shred mission!
And my heart is racing!

Life has not been the easiest of travels in recent months, and I know this to be true for many of you, but we do have one thing under our control...and that is what we put in and do to our bodies! Even with the emotional eating that we do(myself included), even that is within our control! We choose!
We also control our thoughts and the words we speak! Our thoughts and words have power!! More than we realize! and it is with that, I put out here these words here!

I was reminded by my Warrior Woman in arms, "Now, if you're in, don't go getting all mushy on me ... you're a Warrior Woman ... get your game face on and suck it up! I don't want to hear about what's going on, I wanna SEE what you can do! Please join me, ... if you dare!"

Which reminds me of the theme I had set for this year back in January, "Dare...Boldly"

It also reminds me of a post I made on another site:
"I was thinking today about my post from yesterday.
If I truly believed I was to go on this trip to Oz in August, why would I let one statement or current circumstance change that? Do I believe it or not? I have had lots of reasons to believe it may not happen over the past year, but I refused to stop believing. I refused to let current circumstances affect my belief.
So, why stop now?!
Why should I let the current circumstances affect my belief? Do I still have faith or don't I?
Faith: Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
I will keep the faith : to continue to believe in, trust, or support someone or something when it is difficult to do so!
There are still 12 weeks until my planned trip time in August.
I started the year with a theme of "Dare...Boldly"
Dare to Think Boldly
Dare to Dream Boldly
Dare to Believe Boldly
Dare to Pray Boldly
Dare to Live Boldly
Dare to Speak Boldly

So Shall I not continue with this "Dare....Boldly?"
Shall I not continue to Believe?
Shall I not continue to have faith that it will be as I have been believing for nearly a year?

How about my posts on Audacity? Do I believe this Audacious Faith?
Learning to believe that God does things that I think are impossible.

Can I dare to believe for this boldly, with Audacious Faith?
A lot can happen in 3 months...a lot of awesomely good stuff can happen to turn things around. Will you dare to think, dream, believe, pray, live boldly with me? Believe that things will change for the better, that doors will be opened, that favor would be ours.
So what I will do to walk out this faith is to move forward with a Transformation...to live it out boldly, as if! to believe boldly, as if. to think boldly, as if. to pray boldly as if. to Speak boldly, as if!

I WILL BELIEVE BOLDLY!!

Monday will be 84 days till take off day. I plan on kicking some butt the next 84 days.

I am going to train as if!
It's a done deal!! I can already see it! I can already feel it! I am already there!

"Please join me, ... if you dare!"
HELL YEAH ... here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dare to Believe Boldly!

on my way Moving Forward

I have been mostly absent this past week.  I am not getting any closer to my physique goals this week, but I am getting closer to being the me I am meant to be.I would like to think that we are all striving for that "Eclipse" Carlos talks about in his blog.. to overshadow or surpass.  “to look or be better”.  I can say that in all ways, physical, mental, spiritual I strive to "overshadow or surpass...to look or be better" than I have before.  

We can not look to other people to say whether or not we are getting closer to that goal.  We do not need other people's opinion.  All we have to do is look in the mirror.  And that mirror will reflect only what it sees.