Feeling Good Is The First Step To Living Your Best Life

By Susan R. Comeau-Nguyen

Have you ever heard the expression that "what you spend your time doing is who you are"?  What about this expression..."nothing tastes as good as being thin feels"...have you heard that one"?  I have spent a lot of time in the last year and a half thinking about living, weight, and health.  If you are not familiar with my story then I should inform you that I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Breast Cancer in October 2009.

Since that diagnosis, I have had an abundance of time to contemplate a wide variety of subjects and big among them was..how to get my life back.  You see, I didn't want to just be alive, I wanted to live..really live.  For me, really living is squeezing all the juice out of good living and feeling good about myself in the process.  It is really hard to have a lot of enjoyment in your daily living if you don't feel good about yourself.

Over the last year and a half my weight has fluctuated tremendously.  In the begining my weight dropped rapidly as the cancer really took hold.  Then with the first and second round of chemotherapy, steroids, and anti-estrogen medications my weight has begun to climb.  It has been a real emotional roller coaster and my body-image and satisfaction with my appearance has taken a beating.  I want to weigh less but I also want to be healthy.  When you have cancer it is not quite as simple as going on a diet and losing a few pounds.

I have gotten permission to take off some weight if Ido it in a slow and healthy way.  I will keep you informed of my progress by posting on this blog.  Living my best life means that I am feeling good, looking good and have energy to keep up with my two year old. 

I am inspired by my mother and the recent success and new found excitement she is experiencing.  I have some of that, thank you very much.

Susan

A Lesson Learned,,,,,,,,Again

By Becky Comeau

I am loving my ViSalus shakes  (http://beckyc.myvi.net/), feeling great and satisfied.  I find I'm not rooting around looking for something to graze on and I like the feeling of self-control.  I'm cured, right? Wrong. Saturday I did some Easter baking and my old enemy chocolate was on the menu.  Do you know how good chocolate smells, how it melts in your mouth with that additive sweetly satisfying taste?   AHHH.  So one little morsel became a second, then a third, then a bigger fourth until I was completely undone and ended up with a massive headache and a bad attitude.  Was it worth it?  Absolutely not.  Did I learn anything?  Absolutely yes.  I learned that it's ok to have a little treat once in a while  so I forgave myself and got back on the trail.

We're All In This Together

By Becky Comeau

Tonight as I talked to a dear friend who is stumbling down the same rocky path that I am, I realized how much we all have in common.  I have realized that this blog must belong to all of us because we all need each other.  Let's make this blog a virtual community and as our group of weight loss warriors grows, so too will the blogs, recipes, stories and victories add up and hopefully inspire and challenge all of us.  So then, as we all share and invite newcomers into the fold, I will extend to them an offer to be co-owner of this blog.

Week 5, Day 2 Just Get A Plan

By Becky Comeau

I'm having great success with my plan.  I'm down officially 11.5 pounds as of this morning thanks to ViSalus.  Again, I realize that success or failure builds momentum.  If I'm in control of my eating, I have more energy and optimism, feel empowered, have more self-confidence, more joy, and just feel better about myself.  I then have more determination, take better care of myself, want to excersie and do so, want to eat better and do so. 

On the contrary........if I am not in control.........I am discouraged and not motivated.  I hate to go clothes shopping, feel defeated, unsure of myself, am hopeless about ever losing weight or ever feeling good about myself again.  I hate the way I look and feel.  I hide in the back of group photos and do my best not to have my picture taken at all.   And because I feel hopeless, when that cupcake calls to me, I just cave in.  Because it really doesn't matter, I'm never going to succeed.  I might as well just face it.

The point is to get a plan that you can stick to.  It really doesn't matter what it is, just find something that works for you.  And remember 2 Timothy 1:7; For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

Here's to you

A Beginning

By Becky Comeau

Welcome to my blog.  In it, I hope to journal my weight loss journey, successes, failures, and bumps in the road.   My oldest daughter Susan challenged a bunch of us a while back to think out and write out our Bucket list of the things in life we want to accomplish.  One of mine was to lose weight, again.  I am glad to say that life goal is underway in a way I had never contemplated.  I will explain in the days and weeks to come.  This blog will be ruthlessly honest and transparent, I have nothing to hide and know that many of you have shared my struggles and pain.  I am writing this blog because I am determined not to quit or lose heart and hope that my successes AND FAILURES might encourage you to take this journey with me.  I am forcing myself to be accountable and weigh in each week in front of the whole world (or at least the part that reads this blog).  So, here's to better health and smaller jeans!!