How To Get That New Body You Want: Change Bad Habits Into Good Ones

Journey Gym Habit

      We are all creatures of habit. Oh sure, we like to think we are spontaneous, and perhaps your routine is not quite as static as your neighbor's boring life. Forget the neighbor. To borrow from Mary Schmich's 1997 Chicago Tribune article,

Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. 

     My friend, Bob Dorste, and I have talked many times about the power of our habits. Over coffee one morning we shared with each other what we were doing to re-invent our lives. Not just our bodies. We confessed to each other that we had allowed ourselves to slip into habits that were not healthy. That was about a year ago; by that time I had lost about 80 pounds. Bob had slimmed down, too. It was fun to talk about the change of lifestyle and the reward that had come from replacing old habits with new ones. And there is the secret key to my weight loss: YOU CAN'T JUST QUIT A HABIT; YOU HAVE TO REPLACE IT WITH A NEW ONE.
      In fact, you need to be smart about how you replace it. Why do you eat that donut in the middle of the afternoon? Are you just thirsty, but sugar tastes better? Maybe you just need to get away from your computer so you go visit a co-worker who always has a stash of chocolate. Could it be that your body is telling you it wants some stimulation, but you think that the caffeine in a "diet" soda would give it a burst of energy?
     And just why is it that you don't walk to the corner grocery store? Why is it that you drive around the parking lot looking for the spot closest to the store entrance?
     One of the blogs I like to read is called "Success Begins Today." Last week I read John Richardson's post about How To Change a Bad Habit Into a Good One. Maybe you will like some of his tips. Maybe you won't. But I can tell you that I like my new habits. I eat more than I did when I was fat. But I eat right and I exercise more and I have fun doing it. My reward is that I like the way I look and the energy that I have. And Cheryl, TLOML*, likes the new husband because he looks a whole lot like the husband she married 31 years ago. In fact, two days ago she told my niece that I look better than when we got married.
     Come on and join me. Develop the habit of eating right and exercising. You will really be glad you did.

Eat Right! Exercise! Get Plenty of Rest! It's that simple!

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*By the way, TLOML = The Love Of My Life = Cheryl DeVore = Prettiest Woman in the World

Sister Jackie sent this to me today. That's my Uncle Buck swing up onto his tall Morgan horse. Seems like he was always in shape, no doubt from hard work as a union carpenter and foremen of hard working men. Over the next few days you will find some more old photographs posted here. If you didn't see the introduction to my hero, Buck Palmer, try one of these earlier posts.


OH, and if you have some old photos or scrapbooks from times when we might have been together in the same place at the same time, please send them to me privately by clicking this email link for photos@blogs.docdevore.com.  Please! With sugar on it?. Trust me - they won't end up here unless you give me permission.

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Be sure to get some breakfast, and take Clif Bar with you.

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The Disclaimers, Shameless and Legal Stuff

Thanks for spending some time with me.

You may also want to get useful tips on losing weight and exercising at my blog at MyFitnessPal (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/docdevore) or Daily Stories about how to lose weight by only learning two rules - eat right and exercise - then visit Doc's blog over at docdevore.blogspot.com. CYA! (wear sunscreen :)

Okay, the legal stuff. Listen up.

I am not a doctor. I am not a certified trainer. I am not a professional body builder. I m in better shape and I do know a lot of stuff that those experts told me, but I don't have a paper that says so, and they haven't told me everything they know yet. Or as Uncle Buck said: "You should always consult a professional, like your doctor, before you begin any weight loss program, and you should ask an expert before you try some of the foods and exercise that Cheryl and Doc use." In other words, this blog contains my opinion on what might work and is for folks who are serious about changing their life. It should not be construed as anything more than what I found on my journey, and how I learned to use it. So you have now been warned: Do attempt the journey on your own without consulting a professional or gaining parental approval. And by the way, there is some other legal stuff on this page about who owns the trademarks and photos and copyright stuff. Most of what I have is not original, but the way I package it up IS, so be sure to read ALL of my rules. Here they are: All postings on my blogs are the opinions or thoughts by Floyd V. Doc DeVore and are protected by a Creative Commons license; all photos are the exclusive copyrighted property of Doc and any reuse, posting or alteration must be approved or licensed in a manner consistent with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at plus.google.com/108251433034379163350/aboutt. In other words, if you want to use, just ask me.

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(wear sunscreen :)

Making Great Pictures — 10 Factors That Make A Photograph “Great”

My bride demonstrates the basics of
photography with her Canon. Trust me:
She is better than I am with my T2i

Making Great Pictures — 10 Factors That Make A Photograph “Great”

(and this one too) http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledge-center/the-rules-of-photography.html#b

Yes, I could write this, or as Julie N. and Robin N. frequently ask me, "is there anything you have NOT done?"

(Please let me keep stringing them along - they think I'm Santa Claus, too." Jeremy and Justin know better. Sean knows for sure.

Anyway, I thought of this blog while looking up a web site that would explain one of the 1,237 stories I told the boys this week. All of them were true, but the names and the locations may have been altered to protect the innoncent.  Ahem.  That is to protect me and my beautiful lady with the camera - Cheryl.  <3

So go read these excellent blogs on how to use your disposable camera to get fantastic photos. (bloggers, shush. You and I know that's really not the title content, but then we both know that is what you said.  :) Both great pieces. Come back here later. Or never. Just remember who told you that you have to know the rules before you know which ones you can break while losing weight and getting in shape. Rule #1. Eat Right.

That's all I really understood on October first two thousand ten. Eat breakfast. What kind of breakfast? I had no idea, so I quickly jumped to the real rule #1 - Mom told me to eat bacon and eggs and toast and said it's the most important meal of the day. Where do you think Jack got that line, anyway?

I didn't know rule #2 until my wife told me a week later what she wanted for Christmas. Now that should be a book that SHE should write.

(PS: There will be two blog posts today and this was the introduction, be sure to read the next one. But you have time. No hurry. Go read those. And then do me a favor and come back here and click this link because I still don't have enough pennies to buy Cheryl's laptop and she's hinting that Lisset has a better camera than I do and she wants one like it.)


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Like I always say, Trust Me On The Sun Screen)