A Recipe for Pie by The FlyLady, Marla Cilley
We all start each day will a whole pie to call our own. During the day we make the choices that give away our pieces of Peace Pie. This is a special pie that nourishes you as well as feeds your soul. I am going to give you the recipe for this pie!
It starts with the desire to have a "Peace" of Pie! This peace has to come from a whole pie. So here goes with my recipe for this delightful pie.
Every pie I have ever made has a crust. This pie has a top crust and a bottom crust! This crust is made from the finest ingredients for a great foundation. These are the habits you put together to make up your routines. We start this pie the night before we want it with our before bed routine. This is the bottom crust that holds up our pie of Peace together.
It only takes a few minutes to make this crust. You lay out your clothes for tomorrow, check your calendar, shine your sink and clean up after dinner, clear off a hot spot, put things in your launch pad so you wonÕt forget them, brush your teeth, wash your face and go to bed at a decent hour and sleep. This crust is a pleasure to make when you think about the joy that it is going to give you tomorrow morning when you put together the rest of this glorious pie of Peace. That alone is a great incentive. There is nothing like the taste of Peace Pie!
The top crust we will put together when we first get up in the morning. It starts with getting up a few minutes before the flow of the rest of the family. This enables you to get dressed in peace. Do you see how you can have your pie and eat it too? The pie isnÕt even made yet but you are beginning to feel the taste on your tongue. The rest of your morning routine of checking your calendar, putting on your shoes, seeing whatÕs for dinner on your calendar, making your bed, eating breakfast and starting a load of laundry help to make this top crust fit with the bottom crust.
Now we have to put together the most luscious filling for this pie of Peace. This filling is made of our basic weekly plan and having the ingredients readily available each day we start our pie. A weekly home blessing, staying on top of mount washmore, planning our meals, grocery shopping, getting rid of our clutter 15 minutes at a time and taking time for you are the ingredients that make this pie melt in our mouths. Without them is the crust is very hard to put together.
Think about this. You canÕt lay out your clothes if you have no clean laundry. You canÕt pull out something for dinner in the morning if there is no plan and you have not gone shopping. This filling makes this pie of Peace tasty.
Your habits put this pie of peace together every day. Your lack of effective habits makes it impossible to sit down and enjoy this pie. You have a choice build your pie and enjoy it or to give away the ingredients.
Once your pie is made then you have the ability to share this peace with others and not feel deprived. This pie is dusted with granulated sugar that is your attitude of love for you. You no longer feel that someone is stealing your pie when your buttons get pushed by family or a simple mistake. You find yourself enjoying the day instead of dreading whatÕs next. This pie of Peace becomes the nourishment for your body and soul. It blesses all around us and you made it with your own two hands!
For more help getting rid of your CHAOS; check out her website and join her free mentoring group at www.FlyLady.net or her book, Sink Reflections published by Bantam and her New York Times Best Selling book, Body Clutter published by Fireside. Copyright 2007 Marla Cilley Used by permission in this publication.
12 Secrets to Weight Loss Success by Jonathan Roche
Make 2008 the year you get in the best shape of your life!
Please remember these important keys to success as you move forward on your wellness journey:
- Take Baby Steps
- Avoid Making Excuses
- STAY POSITIVE
- Be Proud of Yourself when you are done exercising
- HAVE FUN!
1) Always Eat Breakfast - and try to have it within 1 hour of waking
up. This will help keep your metabolism buzzing.
2) NEVER Skip Meals - this causes your metabolism to slow down and
sends the signal to your body to store your next meal as fat in order
to avoid starving.
3) Drink 64 Ounces of Water Per Day and one additional ounce per
minute of workout time - you should be going to the bathroom at least
once per hour.
4) Eat Something Every 2 Hours - so make sure to have healthy snacks
mid-morning and mid-afternoon. This again helps keep your metabolism
buzzing.
5) Do Interval Workouts 2 or 3 days per week å intervals help you BURN
30% MORE CALORIES PER WORKOUT and can help leave your metabolism
elevated for up to 12 hours after each workout. You can access a FREE
sample workout by going to:
www.momentumfs.com/flylady
6) Do the 6-minute No Excuses Workout 2 or 3 days per week å you can
do this quick and highly effective strength training workout right in
your living room and no equipment is required. You can access the
FREE sample workout by going to:
www.momentumfs.com/flylady
7) Concentrate on Your Health as opposed to losing weight. And if you
have kids, concentrate on your kids and how you losing weight will
help improve the energy you bring to your relationship with them.
8) Hold Yourself Accountable and Don't Make Excuses. We are all
extremely busy, but you can fit movement into your schedule. You owe
it to yourself to have some personal time at least 3 times per week.
9) When you exercise, Be Proud of Yourself and know how much that it
positively effects your energy, health and life
10) Stay Positive. Life is too short to be beat yourself up over
weight that you have gained. Stay positive and it will help all areas
of your life.
11) Have Fun. If your workouts are not fun, than you are not going to
keep doing them. So if you dread going to a gym, than don't go.
Instead go for a walk, play with your kids in the yard, etc. If you
can turn the dreaded exercise word into a fun activity, than your
chances of being successful go up dramatically.
12) Throw the Rear View Mirror Out the Window. Concentrate on today
and tomorrow. You can't change the past and beating yourself up over
weight you gained, etc. is only going to drag you down and move you in
the wrong direction. Today is a new day so take advantage of it.
For more help to get moving; check out his website www.BreakthroughHF.com Jonathan Roche is our Virtual Personal Trainer! www.MomentumFS.com - for FREE WORKOUTS, RECIPES & TIPS. Listen to his radio show
www.BlogTalkRadio.com/NoExcusesWeightLoss or join his Yahoo Group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/noexcuseworkout/
