Items from my Fitness Notebook

If you want to reach your dream, you must stay past the point you normally would have given up. ~ Unknown

Life boils down to a choice. Are you going to let life get you down or are you doing to take control and make the outcome what you want it to be?

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you take a day off from exercising, do at least 3 things that will keep you moving towards your goals during your off day. ~ Unknown

Preparation yesterday will help make today productive, and productivity today will help make tomorrow's dream a reality. ~ Unknown

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. ~ F.D. Roosevelt

A cookie lasts as long as it takes to chew it, but a healthy lifestyle lasts a lifetime! ~ Unknown

Life tends to get in the way of fitness goals. Don't let it push you around. Make time. Your health is that important. ~ Unknown

Today, THINK about WHO you want to be, WHAT that person would choose when faced with a difficult food choice and BE that person!!! Let healthy thoughts control you today! ~ Unknown

We can take a stand for our lives by saying no to certain foods and behaviors. Yes, we have the opportunity to choose to gorge on sweets, but that's not freedom, that's slavery. ~ Unknown

Being proactive will go a long way in our recovery from food and weight issues. We must be on guard, watching for temptations and praying for God's guidance and strength in each new situation. If we walk about unaware, we will easily fall into serving our flesh -- giving into the tempting gratification of binging. But as we instead live away of our surroundings, predictable traps, and our own weaknesses, we can then walk in the spirit and provision that comes from God. ~ Lose it for Life Day by Day - May 23rd

Scriptures for Fitness

I went through my fitness notebook this morning and this is a list of various scriptures I have written in it:

Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen to me, and you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the finest food. ~ Isaiah 55:2

Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take you stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you! ~ Galatians 5:1

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing but the body is weak. ~ Matthew 26:41

Everything is permissible for me - but not everything is beneficial. ~ 1 Corinthians 6:12

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. ~ Hebrews 10:36

I discipline my body...training it to do what it should. ~ 1 Corinthians 9:27

Fitness Notebook

I have a small spiral about 5x7 that I carry with me. When I read an inspiring quote or an interesting article I write it (or print and tape) in my notebook. Then when I need some motivation or I want to remind myself of why high fructose corn syrup is so bad for me, I can look in my notebook.

Here are a few quotes I have recorded:

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself; do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. ~ Francis De Sales

The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare. ~ Thaine Yost

Don't waste time on things, situations, foods, drink, thoughts that are going to inhibit you from being a happy, healthy, productive, energetic person. ~ Unknown

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There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you are interested in something you do it only when circumstances permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. ~ Art Turock

Everything is permissible for me - but not everything is beneficial. ~ 1 Corinthians 6:12

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Excellence is an art won by training and habitation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly go. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit. ~ Aristole

There is much, much more and I will probably post things from my notebook occasionally.