2012 is drawing to a close!  It’s time for my annual contest where YOU guess how many exercise sessions I completed this year.  The winner will receive a set of Catalyst products, including workbooks and CD audio classes worth more than $500, to illuminate your permanent weight loss journey!

For anyone who’s new to this blog, I’m a proponent of non-diet, permanent weight loss through true lifestyle change.

Diets are temporary ways to eat with endless mind games and emphasize willpower.   True lifestyle change addresses the deeper need for food and lasts forever.  My twenty-year struggle taught me to deal with the deeper needs in life, so those deeper needs don’t sabotage healthy efforts.

My Approach to Exercise or Activity

I don’t use fancy apps to track my exercise and I’ve lost over 90 pounds without counting a calorie.  I know a calorie is not a calorie when it comes to fuel for the body.  If you don’t understand the calorie game, get my audio class called “The Hard Cold Truth About Permanent Weight Loss” NOW!)

Here’s my “foolproof” recording method:

Yep, that’s 12 sheets of paper, calendar style, for 2013!  It works because the physical act of recording, with a pen, is magical in terms of claiming your work.  And you never have to worry about losing it via a computer problem.  I have years of these calendars.  It’s an instant reference when I need to remember how far I’ve come, or what I was doing that year I lost 20 lbs., or whatever.

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