Thought for the day....

I went shopping today.  More about that in a minute...  But...I am pretty darn sure that no woman came up with the name "Sag Harbor" for a clothing line.  Sag Harbor?????  Really?????  Sag?????????????  I mean, c'mon.   I don't care if there is a body of water named that or not.  Surely some man who had serious issues with his mother came up with that one.  Oh well....enough of that observation.  (I bet it's true though)
So...like I said, I went shopping.  Had to go "across the aisle".  Other stuff was mostly too big.  Kind of a red letter day, because it has been awhile since I could look somewhere other than just the "plus size" clothing.  AND...while I'm on the subject....do designers think that weight impacts vision and taste???????  WHO would wear those hideous prints unless they couldn't find something else to fit??  You find me a size 4 chick dressed in a hideous dress made out of some of the ugliest fabric going.  YOU WON'T.  So what do the designers think?   "Hmmmmmm, she is fat, so now let's REALLY punish her and make her wear UGLY, UGLY prints on ugly styled clothing made of crappy material."  They must think that.  They probably all work for the guy who came up with the name "Sag Harbor". I look at some of the clothing and just shake my head.  Granted, plus size clothing has improved GREATLY in the past 20 years, but the majority of it is not good.  NOT GOOD.   Back to the shopping experience...While it should have been a jolly thing to be looking at smaller clothes, it was a little freaky too.  I kept expecting someone to run up to me and say "Begone fat woman...there is nothing here for you!!!  Get back to the other side of the aisle where you belong!!"   That didn't happen, but it seemed like it could.  BUT, I'm glad to be shopping for clothes that I LIKE, not just clothes that I can fit into.   How am I getting smaller??  Visalus.  Body by Vi.  The Shake mix that tastes like a cake mix.   http://www.musicmae.myvi.net/    Check it out.  If you have questions, email me.  I'll be glad to answer.  It is giving me hope when I had given up.   Go for it.

If you do what you always did....

You've heard the saying, "if you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got"...    This past August, I finally splurged and went to the doc to get bloodwork etc. done.  It had been years.  Bottom line, I was VERY overweight, (no surprise there) and borderline diabetic. (No surprise there either).  So, this earnest, young physician assistant asked me if I could maybe try to lose some weight and did I need any information about diets?   He was kidding, right?   Did I need any info about diets????   I'm 57 years old.  I've been on diets of some type since I was probably 10.  Maybe younger.  I don't know.  I could write SEVERAL books about diets...different kinds, different styles, different costs, different attitudes.  What wasn't different was the result.  I lost weight (sometimes) and I gained the weight back.(always)  So, faced with this latest eye rolling, I guess I better do "something" weight situation, I could not bear doing the same thing one more time.  Why bother?  Why go to WW and pay money and stand in line with a bunch of other fat people, watching people shed their clothes almost down to their skivvies and try to pee their brains out just to get a good result on the scale?  To manipulate the points so that I could eat ONLY popcorn and ice cream.  (Real healthy choices...)  I just could not do it again.  It may work beautifully for others and that is WONDERFUL.  GO FOR IT.  I can only speak to my own experiences.  I've done other things too, but I'm not going into those now.  What I can talk about it what I'm doing NOW.  How I'm feeling NOW.  How I'm encouraged almost to the point of being mystified NOW.  I am taming the diet dragon....I am not just taming that slimy beast, I'm slaying that sucker and I intend to keep slaying him.  I CAN'T believe how much of my life has been sucked up by that demon dragon.  So, with the dramatics aside, what I'm doing is this...visalus.  Body by Vi.     A 90 day challenge.   A plan for anybody and EVERY body.   I love that saying.  I LOVE it.  I am going to continue on visalus.  If you struggle with weight, I want you to do it too.  It works.  It is healthy.  You WILL feel better.  I am going to explain my journey, but first I want you to ask yourself..."Am I sick of doing the same old crap and feeling bad about myself when I don't acheive and maintain positive results?" "Am I tired of feeling bad about myself?"  Do I deserve the same chance at life as everybody else??  Yup.  Visalus.  It will help.  It will make this battle "doable".  It will be the sword in your hand to slay that stinkin, obscene, hateful diet dragon.  Pick up your sword and c'mon.....   My commercial website for visalus is this    http://www.musicmae.myvi.net/     You can look at it and see if it makes sense to you.  If not, write me....  maehigg@yahoo.com       Put visalus in the subject line and I promise I will answer.    I will answer any questions you might have so that you can get onboard with this.  This is NOT for someone else who is "more deserving".  This is for YOU.