Christmas Presents! weight loss tools I received!

Christmas was good and bad, bad because I ate uncontrollably again, thank goodness that is over and I'm doing fine now and the good part is that I received two fantastic tools to help with my weight loss!

Every year I buy myself a gift for my hard work throughout the year running a house of five, two teens, a toddler and of course hubby, school runs, sports runs, cooking, cleaning, the list goes on and on, so of course I deserve to treat myself! My daughter was going away with her friends for New Year to Great Barrier Island and I felt sorry for her because she didn't have an MP3. Every time she goes away she borrows mine and I thought to myself, wouldn't it be nice if I gave her my MP3 and this year for my gift to myself, I'd buy me a new one therefore, we both get a gift. So I ran this by her and she was very excited as she loves my old MP3 (1 yr old) because it can also record your voice and the radio, and it's a cool red color and a Sony! So Christmas Eve we went to our local electronics store and she showed me the new Sony MP3's and I got an orange one! It's totally cute, has fabulous bass and so tiny that I don't have to carry around a bulky thing especially when on the treadmill and cycle! So Christmas Day I gave it to her among her other gifts and I opened my gift to myself, I absolutely love it and her and I swap songs, totally cool!!


The other fantastic gift I received was a book from my daughter, Jillian Michael's Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change your Life, and all I can say about this book is that it is FANTASTIC! There is a lot of information that hit home with me and I feel so much more relaxed on this journey. This is the best weight loss book I have read yet, everything is explained to make it easy to understand, the methods and techiniques are fabulous and there is a huge section on exercise with pictures because as we all know, there is no way you are going to lose weight and keep it off without being active!

So as I go on my way to a new body, better health and longevity, I am relaxed and eager to stay on with it, I have learned about calories BMR, AMR yep the works and for the first time, it all makes sense!

If you haven't embarked on your journey, get moving, you'll feel better for it!