In my last post, I had just returned from my Ali Brown, Millionaire Protege Retreat, where I had gone   looking for ways to grow my business.  And I came home with the realization I needed to focus on my health first and foremost or it wouldn’t matter what I did with my business, because I would be dead.   I set a plan to focus first on my health every day and I began in earnest and then like so many other good intentions, I started letting it slip away.  I was focusing on my health, just not making the time necessary to improve it.

In April, I also attended the four day Direct Selling Women’s Alliance event in Los Angeles and met so many great entrepreneurs.  One of the panelists, Suzan, shared that she had a morning call every Monday through Friday with the top people on her team to get everyone motivated for the day.  For some reason, this really resonated with me and I committed to her I would implement a similar program within one week.  I did not know what or who the group would involve; I just really liked the idea.  And within a few days, The Healthy Breakfast Club was born!

Now, less than one month later, we have over 60 members which are committed to achieving and/or maintaining a healthy body weight.  And the method we have chosen is to eat healthy well balanced meals and work out regularly.  No magic pills or machines, no fad diets,  no short term solutions.  The HBC is about making permanent life style changes to improve the quality of our lives and the quantity of years we have to live it.

Every weekday morning Monday through Friday, we convene our meeting on the phone from 7-7:30 AM PDT for thirty-ish minutes.  The focus on the call is always positive and celebrating each successful step we take.  Club members call in from all over the country to support, encourage, and motivate each other and miracles are happening.   With support, the members are achieving wonderful results.  Becky ran her first 5K yesterday, Suzzane has stopped eating after 7:30, Carra is working out every day, and this is my 10th day straight without any diet soda.  And for me that is a personal miracle.  I know my addiction to diet soda (and lots of it daily) was the MOST unhealthy habit in my life.  And it has been for 25 years.  At my worst, I would consume two 64 ounce Super Big Gulps of diet coke in one day.   An average was at least one 42 ounce diet coke from McDonalds and and I love when they put them on sale.

I am a smart girl and I know the chemicals and the artificial sweeteners were horrible for me and there was not a shred of nutritional value and yet I kept drinking.  Sometimes I would wake up in the morning and have leftover coke on my nightstand, warm and flat, and it would be the first thing I would drink.  My twins, Patrick and Dylan have asked me for years to please stop drinking diet soda and even for them I could not do it.  Dylan and I made an agreement that he would not eat meat if I would not drink diet soda and that lasted for about two days.  Most mortifying of all was then I found my self sneak drinking diet soda so he would not find out.  How addicted is that?

A week ago Friday, the goal I set for the weekend to my club members was to be aware of and track how much diet soda I consumed over the weekend.  No where did I even allude to the fact that I intended to not drink any – only to track and be aware.  This was on a Friday morning and I worked at home all day until Kevin got home.  And then we set off to Monterey to visit our son Patrick, who the week before had graduated Navy Boot Camp and was now at the Defense Language Institute for the next two years perfecting his Chinese!  On the way up, we stopped at Whole Foods in Thousand Oaks for dinner.  If you have ever been to one, you know they do not even sell diet soft drinks.  For the first time in my life (I swear) I BOUGHT a bottle of water to drink with dinner.  And off we went.

It was not until we went to lunch on Saturday that I realized I had not had any diet soda since at least Thursday.  Hmmmm and I was still alive and not thrashing about or biting any-one’s head off, so I made a decision to finish out the day without any and I did.  Here it is over a week later and I honestly feel I have ‘kicked the habit’.  In fact, I am already making plans to give up the next most unhealthy thing in my diet at the 30 day mark.

Was it easy?  No.  Was it as hard as I thought it would be.  No, which was kind of disappointing as I thought the more I suffered, the more I could pat myself on the back for succeeding.  Sheeshhh…talk about self punishment.  I began posting on Facebook my progress every single day and the members of The Healthy Breakfast Club rallied around in support and encouragement, as well as other friends onFacebook who are not members.  The support and cheer-leading was what inspired me every day to ‘just say no’ to diet soda.

Every step I take and you take brings us all one step closer to achieving our goals.  What step will you take today?

To learn more about The Healthy Breakfast Club or to join us go tohttp://www.thehealthybreakfastclub.com.  It is free, it is fun and it is about you and your health!

Week two of The Healthy Breakfast Club kicked off with several new club members and lots of great success stories.  Each of us had set a healthy intention for the weekend and everyone shared their results.  My intention was to do one Beachbody DVD workout over the weekend.  And at 7:30 on Sunday evening I did Workout #1 of P90X (Chest and Back) for a modified 25 minutes and I was so excited.  Without the call this morning, I am sure I would have found some way to rationalize not doing it.  With the call, not only did I do it; my husband joined me in the workout. I can not begin to tell you how excited I was at the end…  Starting out though my heart rate was already up because I was nervous about “trying” it.  I watched the infomercial Tony, Traci and Doug did last week on QVC and that is what gave me the courage.  I have always looked at P90X as the workout other, already fit people did and nothing I would ever be able to aspire to.  On the infomercial Tony showed one of the moves (very difficult looking for me) and then he showed the modified version.  I looked at that and said I could do that!

How often are we creating limitations about our abilities in our mind which have no basis or evidence in fact?  And how does that hold us back?  Was pretty silly of me to decide I could not do a program, no matter what, when I had never even opened the package.  Duh!  Hello….Give your self a chance to see what you can do.  In your exercise, your eating, your business, your relationships and the rest of your life – what could you be doing right now, you don’t “think” you could do?  Push the envelope at least a little and take a chance.

Suzanne shared on the call the way she thinks of exercise time is like recess.  The time we get to take a break and go out to play!!!  Changing how we think about something can very simply change the way we feel about it and the actions we take.  Thanks, Suzanne!

We have lots of experience and a wealth of knowledge in our club members.  Today I was excited to have Judy Javislak, one of the great coaches on my Beach Body Team share the following topic:

Purpose, Persistence and Patience

Healthy living is all about adding several good habits into our lives.  How do we add these good habits and make them STICK?  It’s all about PURPOSE, PERSISTENCE, and PATIENCE.  PURPOSE is all about getting in touch with all of the wonderful things we can have in our lives if we adopt this new good habit.  Think about them, make a list, but most importantly…DREAM!  Visualize having all of these good things in your life!  The next step is PERSISTENCE.  Challenges will come up, but it is important to keep moving forward.  For example, when you don’t feel like exercising, just get started with 10 minutes.  Tell yourself that you can quit after 10 minutes.  Sometimes you’ll exceed that 10 minutes because you start to feel good.  Other times, it will just be 10 minutes, and that’s okay!  The secret to success is to NEVER give up!  Finally, PATIENCE is important too!  It’s been said that something done over and over every day will become a habit after around 21 days.  That’s a good start, but it isn’t some magic number.  Keep going until one day you realize that it’s a habit.  Then, start over with your PURPOSE again.  Sometimes you will need to readjust your purpose as your life changes.  But that’s the FUN part of it!  Human nature is such that we are always trying to learn and grow!  Just think how boring life would be if there was nothing new to learn!

Tomorrow we have a special guest I will be interviewing and you do not want to miss the call.  Invite people you know by going towww.thehealthybreakfastclub.com and signing up.  Ask them to be sure to fill in the spot “invited by” as we want to honor the coaching relationships in place.  Your personal Beachbody Coach (or the coach who invited you) can answer any questions you man have and support you on a one on one level.

Until tomorrow, keep pushing play!

Judi

Team Beachbody Diamond Coach

Have you created your profile yet and are you logging in your workouts? Great day to start and you could win $1000 and that is a lot of motivation to work out. Go to your personal BB Coach’s site to create your profile and get started. It is free, it is fun and you can win money and get healthy. What are you waiting for? Go – Now – Sign up and workout.

Judi
In-Home Coach, Team Beachbody Diamond Coach

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