The Strength: Motivation Monday!

Monday, October 10, 2011

Motivation Monday!

Meet my friend Heidi Keefer!

I never had a real issue with my weight before, was always in the “normal” range for my height. I’ve always been active and into playing sports, especially football with my guy friends & the youth group kids from my church. I got pregnant while training for a half marathon in July 2010, and completed the race (morning sickness and all) in September, when I was 2 months along. I continued working out in an attempt to not gain as much weight as I did with my first pregnancy, which was 40 pounds. My goal was to not exceed a 25 pound weight gain. I was on track until January came. That's when my older brother suddenly passed away. I took a couple weeks off the gym to be with family and deal with a lot of emotions. Then I spent most of February in pain with kidney stones. I kinda lost focus there for awhile and started eating a lot of junk food. Once life settled down I started back at the gym, but was still stuffing my face at home. So by the time I gave birth to my daughter in April I had gained 43 pounds. So much for gaining less this time, huh?? Even though I started working out again about 4 weeks postpartum, I also started smoking again. Yep, after 9 months without a cigarette, I let the stress of life get to me. Then in June I decided I wanted to start studying to be a personal trainer. The further I was getting into my books I realized the cigarettes had to go, once and for all. And so did my bad eating habits. That’s when the last of my baby weight finally melted off. And by early September, I was back at my pre pregnancy weight, 125. I am currently 2 pounds under that weight and am the strongest I have ever been in my life. I still have a little way to go, but at least I know what I need to do now. Eating clean is not always easy, but it makes sense. There should be no other way of eating. As Tammy always says, we should know what were putting in our bodies - read the labels!! I give so much credit to Tammy for always being motivating and so willing to share all her knowledge about working out and eating right.

Heidi's favorite quote:
Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

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Motivational Quotes

You must act as if it is impossible to fail.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself!
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, your probably right!
If you are sick of starting over, you have to stop quitting
You won't fail if you're not perfect, you'll fail if you're not committed to improving yourself slightly each day.
We can reverse years of damage to our bodies by deciding to raise our standards for ourselves, then living differently. Old wounds heal, injuries repair, and the whole system improves with just a few changes in what we put into our bodies and how we move them.
Failure is not fatal; failing to change will be."
Food for Thought: The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Strengthen Your Desire! Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Success is not a race, be patient.
It's not about how good you are, but how bad you want it!
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go..."
"Never trade what you want the most for what you want at the moment"
"Success is not a place that we aspire to, it is a process in which we live by. Often the only ingredient being the ability to not quit"
Be specific in what you want, and use specific words. Empower yourself, and become the person you dream about
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased."
The odds of hitting a target go up dramatically when you aim at it." ~Mal Pancoast
At the beginning of any task, more than anything else, your attitude will affect it's successful outcome.
Do or do not. There is no try.~Yoda
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means, effort, pain, difficulty.
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear."
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps."
Start doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you'll be doing the impossible!
"My life tomorrow will be the result of my attitudes and the choices I make today."
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar
"Clear your mind of can't." ~Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.
What are stumbling blocks and defeat before you, can be stepping stones to victory if you remain determined.
Listen closely: the only time it's too late to change yourself is when you're dead. Until then, you're simply making excuses or lying to yourself.
If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got!
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently". ~Henry Ford
What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. ~ John Ruskin
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality." ~Ralph Marston
One definition of insanity is: Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.
"If we defend our habits, we have no intentions of quitting them."
Your past does not equal, nor does it dictate, your future
Do you choose to simply know the path, or do you choose to walk it?
Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down...
When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach."------Ralph Marston
Discipline is remembering what you want.
Knowing is not enough, you must apply.
Make the decision, then do something - no matter how small - toward accomplishing what you want.
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
Food for Thought: The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Strengthen Your Desire! Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.