START A 12 WEEK WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE WITH ME!

START A 12 WEEK WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE WITH ME!

I'm starting a new 12 week challenge tomorrow.  This is to get back to the basics of my low carb eating and renew my focus.  I'm believing this will help break my plateau and get me back to losing. 

Anyone up for joining me?  Got a wedding coming up?  A quinceanera?    A reunion?  A big party or celebration?  Wearing a swimsuit this summer?

Let's do it together and make it happen.  Take a before picture and your measurements.    Even though you might not see it, pictures and measurements don’t lie.  Weigh and then put that scale away until the 12 weeks is over.   Trust your clothes and measurements to tell you the truth.

I'll be using Skinny Fiber and low carb.  You can use any meal plan you like.  If you would like to add Skinny Fiber, click here to order:  caryncann2.com.   It will help you.  I has me and thousands of others. 

It's always easier to do it with others than all by yourself.  My goal is 20 pounds in 90 days.  That's a little more than 1.5 pounds a week.    Between reducing calories and moving, I think that is a reasonable goal for me.    Make a realistic goal for yourself.  Just remember:  to lose one pound a week you either have to eliminate 500 calories a day from your eating, increase your activity to burn 500 calories extra a day or a combination of the two.

I'm doing it!  Alone or with others.  I'm doing it!  It will break my plateau and put me back losing and on to my next goal.

We all get frustrated.  We all want to eat junk.  It just doesn't seem fair.  Hey!  I have finally gotten it.  Life is not fair.  I don't think it's fair that people that weigh twice as much as I do don't have diabetes.   I'm sure thin people don't think it's fair that they have high blood pressure when a big girl like me has blood pressure of 110/70.   We all have a disadvantage of some sort.

You play with the hand you are dealt or you roll over and give up.  WE DON'T GIVE UP!  WE RISE LIKE THE PHOENIX OUT OF THE ASHES OF WHATEVER IT IS THAT HAS SOUGHT TO DESTROY US! 

And then we just don't survive.  WE THRIVE!

Let’s do this!

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caryn cannatella

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NOTE TO MY YOUNGER SELF

NOTE TO MY YOUNGER SELF

Hey girl!

None of the terrible things happening to you now will even matter in the future.  You will grow into a strong, independent woman.  The ones who sought to destroy you and break your little spirit failed. 

You will rise from the ashes and become the woman you were always meant to be.  It's your heart, your goodness, and your faith that will keep you on the path that will lead you to the best parts of your life.  No one can ever stop you from pursuing your dreams and reaching them as long as you believe.  And at every point along the way, trust me, there will be people who enter your life that will help you down that road.  Your spirit of forgiveness and gratitude will become the touchstones of your life.

You, my sweet child, aren't just going to survive.  You are going to thrive and be a beacon for others.  Keep these words in your heart.  Some day you will look back in amazement at how far you have come.

And I do.  Every day.

Feel free to leave a note here for your younger child.  I would love to read them.

copyrighted 2014

caryn cannatella

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YOU WERE MEANT TO THRIVE!

YOU WERE MEANT TO THRIVE!

I know many of you are just like me.   We made it through some dark times filled with abuse.   We got to the other side and were just glad we made it.

We survived!  We were proud that we were a survivor.  We refused that label of VICTIM.  We had made it!  We wore that badge with honor as well we should.

But many of us stayed in the survivor role.  Content and complacent to just live there.  We didn’t move backwards; we didn’t move forward.  We were just ordinary people glad to still be alive.

When I heard this song by Casting Crowns it spoke to my mind, my heart and my soul.  WE ARE NOT ORDINARY PEOPLE!  We are amazing, extraordinary people!  We fought and conquered so much.  And we finally laid down that word victim.  It lost its hold of us.  

And then we became a survivor.  It gave us strength and courage.  We knew our inner strength.  We knew we could overcome.  However….

If you are like me, you thought you should be grateful just to have survived.  We didn’t feel worthy.  Why would we?  We were never treated that way.  But the burning white embers just needed to be fanned.  Just a whisper of breath could ignite them again.  Blow on those charred remains and bring them back to life. 

It’s time.  It’s my time.  It’s your time.   Surviving is not enough for us anymore.  We deserve more.  We deserve the best. 

It’s time for us to THRIVE!  Embrace it.  Hold it.  Breathe it in to the depths of your soul.  You are worthy.  Reach out and claim it!  You deserve it.  All of it.  Starting today!

copyrighted 2014

caryn cannatella

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