Crafting the lifestyle you want is not always easy; sometimes you have to put the {hard} work in to redress the over exuberance {!} of your earlier years; in my case this has been chronic over spending and chronic over eating.
There is no quick and easy solution; you have to have a goal and you have to do whatever it takes to keep a relentless focus on that goal until your target is reached; this has worked for me with paying off consumer debt and I hope now that it will work with weight loss.
We still have a goal to be mortgage free and live in Portugal, and I’m doing something small every day to work towards this, however my daily most important task is to focus on losing weight and getting fitter; to have the lifestyle I really crave, I need to do this.
13lbs down and counting 
{photo credit: drcorneilus}
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Well done you – nearly at that first stone, you are doing fab…
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thank you…so are you
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Wow, that is great progress! Well done!
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Amazing progress! Congratulations!
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Great FOCUS!! love it. And 13 pounds is A LOT. of course you can do it!
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thank you Tony and MW; I’ve put it out there to make myself accountable..and to get encouragement..so thank you, it really helps
there’s A LOT to lose mo
thank you for your support
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Congrat’s on the 13lbs! That’s awesome!
Keep up the great work, it’s SO worth it in the end!
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I wonder where the weight and debt link comes from exactly. I began what ended up being a 30lb weight loss around the time I also got serious about paying down my debt. I’ve kept both the weight and the debt off since then and can’t imagine going back.
I also remember struggling for years and thinking it was so hard . . .and then, one day, it was just easy.
I hope the same is happening for you–it sounds like maybe it is–congratulations on loosing 13lbs–that’s a lot!
.-= Simple in France´s last blog ..Baby Steps to Get out of Debt =-.
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WOO HOO!!! Well done you! I’m so proud of you
I also love the picture! It is such a good reminder of how important 1 thing is!
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Thank you ladies!
@simpleinfrance I found I couldn’t do the debt and diet together, but I agree one day your mindset just changes and things become easy/ier – hopefully if has for me now with the eating
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Thanks for the inspiration !
Congrats on the 13lb- great achievement.
I needed the reminder to focus on 1 big goal.
.-= Non Consumer Girl´s last blog ..Cutting Expenses with Fabric Softener =-.
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Move to Portugal Reply:
March 18th, 2010 at 6:22 am
thanks ncg; this one main goal seems to really work
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