Since going Paleo my family has fallen even more in love with our grill. Paleo and grilling just work well together. The past couple of years I've even been stepping outside my grilling comfort zone more and more. Grilling things I'd never thought to have grilled before and trying new flavor combinations. I have to say I'm pretty thrilled with the results of most of my flavor experiments. In the past I'd never have thought to grill fruit, but it's amazing. Grilling fruit and adding it to traditionally savory dishes? Brilliant. Oh yes, and? New rule: every burger recipe for the rest of forever must contain grilled pineapple. OK, maybe more of a guideline. It's a seriously delicious combination though. This Smoky Grilled Pineapple Burger is always a crowd-pleaser at my house. It's not only Paleo, but Whole30, glutenfree, lower carb, and clean eating friendly. I promise you won't miss the bun! paleo, grilled pineapple burger, smoky
I have been asking myself lately: What is different about 'this time around' with getting healthy and losing weight? Why am I having success? Why do I see myself at a size 6 now when before I never even thought it was possible for me? I am even digging into the deeper issues. Issues I never even saw for what they were before. Facing my fears. Making permanent changes. It feels awesome. But why? What is the difference this time?
The answer I came up with was hope. Not just wishy washy I sure wish I could, but deep down to my toes I have hope. They're entirely different things, wishing and hoping. Wishing doesn't even get you off the couch. Ditch the wishing, choose the hope. Hope is so much deeper, so much more far reaching, it means so much more to me than wishing. I see myself accomplishing my goals, I believe I can. Obstacles aren't walls, and heck, if they are I'm going around them or climbing over. I won't be stopped. I have hope. I am getting there. I will get there. I have hope.
It is an amazing place to be. It's much more mental than physical. Which is obviously where my battle was all along. I always battled the physical before. I find now that once I battle the mental and emotional aspects the physical becomes so much easier. I truly believe now that you can't make lasting changes without getting to the root of it. Sure you can count your calories and workout like a fiend, but if you don't deal with that mental/emotional root it just. won't. stick.
I have hope for me. I have hope for you.
My blog subtitle is "weeding through the hype to find the help and the hope". That is exactly what I want to do with my blog. Through product reviews and my personal story, my desire is to pass on some of this hope to any of you that need it.
The products don't hold the hope, I simply use them as tools to get me where I want to go. So don't ever put your hope in a product or workout DVD or diet book. I simply do the reviews to share helpful things or point out the junk. If I can save you some wasted money and time hooray. But don't ever put your hope there, they are just tools on this journey. P90x isn't the answer, it is a tool. A good tool, but still just a tool, a weapon in this battle. You still have to do the real work and get to whatever your root is. Then you will turn that corner, then you will make those lasting changes.
And I have hope that you will! Do you?
(P90x link goes to my beautiful sister's BeachBody Coach site, she and her fab hubby are coaches now! Woo, I'm excited about that)
*Note: Oh what the heck did I do? Just agreed to join 265andfalling.com and amerrylife.com in their workout pledge, we will be on treadmill for 30 seconds for every comment here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2pSqdC/amerrylife.com/2010/03/30/get-me-back-in-the-gym-please//r:t so, uh feel free not to comment there ;) WISH ME LUCK...may be on the treadmill all night!
This time around is different for me too. I haven't thought about it as hope... I have thought about it as "optimism." I am not optimistic by nature, but I am just thinking positively this time and talking about 'when' not 'if.'
ReplyDeleteEXACTLY! Optimism is tied up with hope for me. I am not naturally positive or optimistic either, but I am becoming that way more and more.
ReplyDeleteGreat post Kat! I sense a different perspective for myself this time around too. A knowing that I will get there! But March was a tough month where, in the end, the scale didn't reflect as much of a loss as I was expecting. The frustration that goes with that can quickly melt into determination-busting "giving up". That is what has derailed ALL of my attempts before. A few weeks or a month where I tried pretty hard, but I didn't get the results I expected. I have had the sweet nothings whispered into my head to 'just give it up' BUT I'M KICKING THOSE THOUGHTS TO THE CURB! I still lost weight this month. It was only 3 pounds in one month...but that is a loss! I'm going to switch some things up, take a new approach on some other things, hopefully win #Mamavation and April will have a different outcome. The one thing I am NOT doing? Giving up. Cuz I gots HOPE! (thnx for the post!)
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I needed this, especially this am. It's rough when you have any amount to lose, but I feel sometimes like I'm never gonna see that scale move. thanks for the reminder. I need to have hope in myself and stop wishing it will happen. Thanks again for that.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. I have hope. Something came over me last week during bootcamp. Almost like it needed to happen. I have felt 180% different about this journey since and I am so excited for myself! And you! And everyone! :)
ReplyDeleteHolly, yay you! I so hope you win mamavation. Not giving up is the only way to get there! I think we have to focus on our choices and not the scale.
ReplyDeleteDanielle, HUGS, like I said to Holly gotta focus on the choices.
Dana, that is awesome!
wow your post rings so true. we all sit there on the couch wishing we were not like this, but we did not believe in ourselves that we could do it, we did not have hope for ourselves we just sit there wishing it would all go away. for me too this time I actually believe in myself and have hope for me and for all of you out there working on overcoming the weight monster. very inspirational post, you may have brought a tear to my eye :)
ReplyDeleteYep, HOPE! I got it too! :)
ReplyDeleteAw Lauren, thanks, you go girl! You CAN.
ReplyDeleteTJ, yay for hope ;)
Y E S!
ReplyDeleteThat "thing with feathers" can be the ONLY thing to get us through hard times and to keep us going.
At one point I was going to get the hebrew word for "hope" tattooed on my back! I have since decided I'm not a tattoo person. But it's still one of the most powerful forces in the universe, in my opinion...along w/ love and gratitude!
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Excellent post! I have hope coursing thru my veins this time! It's almost a part of my DNA, it's so integrated into the process this time.
ReplyDeleteNot only do I have hope, but for the first time, in a long time, I have excitement. I'm right there with you!
I couldn't agree more that hope gets us so much further than wishing. Getting to a point where I actually believed not only that I COULD but that I WOULD reach my goals took some work, but recognizing it has been a major success. It may take time, but I have hope that I'll see my goals realized!
ReplyDeleteYay for excitement Glam...totally agree on that.
ReplyDeleteYes Ami, you will.
Great post! You gave me HOPE too :) Thanks for that.
ReplyDeleteIt is totally in our minds. The physical side is easy it's the fight between our ears. Mind over matter... You are doing so good :)
ReplyDeleteI hope that going so slowly this time will help my body realize that this is pretty much what the intake is going to have to be for the rest of my life, if I don't want to go back to Panic Fat City. I hope it works....
ReplyDeleteAmazing post! You are a fabulous girl, and I love your strength and will power! Everyone needs a little bit of hope sometimes! I think you have re energized me!
ReplyDeletexo have a fabulous night!
Your singing my song girl! I swear we're on the same journey- I too am tapping into the hope for the first time. Hope that I can succeed and keep it off this time. Hope that I can actually reach my goal, something I've never quite done before. Hope that I can be this girl for life. I love it! So energizing and refreshing...and a great sign that we're actually "getting it". Yay for us!!!
ReplyDeleteSo I finished the pledge with 7.52 miles and I ran for all of it except for a minute. I'm slow, I know, but I did it!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I came to the roots of my problems a few years ago (it's personal relationships with my mother) and it's gotten so much better but I think a lot of it has to deal with how much I love food. And I used to not cook as varied as I do now, so I'd get really bored and just give up because I wanted to be able to eat other things. But I'm learning how to adjust and adapt better. I think it's come with mental maturity. Healthy food doesn't have to be boring or taste bad is what I'm trying to learn, and it's been fun so far.
I have hope too. But I think a lot of it comes with accountability and constant support from the blogosphere. It really is a great place.
love this.
ReplyDeletefor all aspects of my life.
Im nothing w/out my hope and faith.
Nice Kat - you nailed it! You have to believe in yourself in order to succeed, and when you do, the sky is the limit. Keep the hope alive - I'm rooting for you!!
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