My Visalus Challenge

My ViSalus Challenge Week 6 – Accountability

Accountability Do you beat yourself up for not meeting your goals? When you don’t meet your goals, do you accept responsibility or blame others? Beating myself up for not meeting my goals is something I do often. However, I take full accountability for what does and what does not happen in my life. Being accountable […]

My ViSalus Challenge Week 5 – Anger

Week 5: Living in constant fear of pain that once left me bed ridden is starting to take control–even as I push past boundaries. The Type A personality that put me in bed, and got me out of bed, is pushing me back again. A normal week for most. I was out much of week […]

Living II: My ViSalus Challenge Week 4 – Temptation

Week 4: Like many of you, I had to juggle a busy work and travel schedule along with my personal focus – my diet.  How exhausting!  Over the span of 4 days I had 2 formal dinners, and one buffet dinner and luncheon to attend.  On Thursday with each indulgent bite I would chastise myself, […]

Living II: My ViSalus Challenge Week 3 – Intention

Week 3: I had many good intentions this week, but several of them did not materialize.  The tracking of my calories and timing of meals was a mess.  This week I could not help be reminded of my intentions when I weighed in, fearful of the result.  Well, here we go…last week I weighed 159.2.  […]

Living II: My Visalus Challenge Day 14 (Week 2) – Bullies

Week 2:  This week was challenging, I struggled with bullies–priorities, obligations and time.  Creating new habits is hard work.  I focused on eating the correct number of meals and drinking water.  Let’s see if it worked.  Last week I weighed in at 160.7 lbs.  Week 2 weigh in…drum roll please–159.2 lbs.  That is a total […]

Living II: My Visalus Challenge Day 7 – Organize

Day 7: I’m incredibly nervous today.  Having mostly followed the Visalus diet this week, I am hopeful the scale will be lower than it was a week ago at 163.4 lbs.  Week one weigh-in….drum roll please–160.7 lbs.  Hurray!  That’s a loss of 2.7 lbs. for the week.  My energy levels are still low, but the […]

Living with Fibromyalgia: My Visalus Challenge Day 6 – Timing

Day 6: It has been a very busy today.  I quoted 2 trips, wrote VIP letters for clients who will be traveling next week, met with a client, and finalized a few blog articles.  All in a days work.  Talk about blessings–I love what I do, the people I work with, and I do more […]