So it went a bit like this:

I gave up cheese…but I didn’t really…I don’t eat anything with cheese in a restaurant…but I still eat LITE cheese at home….very rarely but whenever I want…..I also love lite Jarlsberg which I eat on crackers as a snack.

Junk food except that if I want hot chips, hot dogs, hamburgers or pizza…I know I can get healthy versions of these in the supermarket and make them at home... and rarely I actually have thrm...but I EARN them with WEEKS of exercsie!!!!!

Beer…well they even have low carb beer but really, give it the toss…it is extra calories you don’t need – CHOICES..I choose to stay at goal.

LOLLIES - …– well I weaned myself off them….slowly...these days I have jelly lollies occasionally but not very often… they actually make me feel sick!!!

Sweets after a meal (dessert)… I do NOT know how I did that, but I reckon I told myself often enough that I don’t eat sweets or cakes or dessert that somehow somewhere I believed it. I have slivers when I want but these days generally say “I don’t do dessert”.

I have just realized the list could go on forever…… these are the PERMANENT changes I have made to me, my mind and my life… changes that are slow and gradual that add up to not being obese for seven years and pretty much staying that way.

So next time you contemplate your CHOICES………….realise they are NOT sacrifices because gaining a healthy body is worth so much more than any food you can eat……

It is what you CHOOSE to eat, do, think and be that will make you the way you ARE!!!!!

And you WILL have one,........it's your choice!!!!

Shazam!!