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What are You Tolerating Part II
Author: Gigi05.05.2010
Hello Bombshell!
Are you loving your life right now? I am!! There are so many exciting things happening I can hardly contain myself!
Today we are talking a bit more about tolerating and what I have been tolerating.
So for the last several years I have been gaining a little weight each year. Not 50 pounds, but enough that my clothes no longer fit me like I like them to fit. I managed to go up one size and it looked like I might be getting closer to going up two sizes. I had enough and I knew I had to do SOMETHING to get back into my Bombshell clothes! Perhaps you are thinking “What are you talking about! You weren’t that fat!” Well, no, maybe I wasn’t. But let me tell you a secret my dear Bombshell…pain is pain. So whether someone needs to lose 10 or 15 lbs. or 50 or 100lbs, pain is pain. Tight clothes are tight clothes. And my clothes were getting TIGHT.
As I started to research what might be happening to me to cause me to gain weight (other than age and perimenopause!) I came across something very interesting. I found some information about food sensitivities and that I might have some! I never had allergies, but I did have food cravings…like peanut M&M’s and Mexican food! Like EVERYDAY. I had sensitivities to food I was eating almost everyday and THAT was what was making me fat. Now I just had to figure out a way to release that proclivity to eat stuff that was making me fat and never look back.
So I started to research and figure out a way to get this handled once and for all.
I came across a homeopathic hcg diet. Let me just say I have never been a dieting kind of girl. Never. But it was time for me to grow up and get this handled. So I did.
In a nutshell, I lost 17 lbs in 23 days. Yes, 17. My goal was to lose 10, but the first two days of the diet you are to food load (sounds WAY more fun than it is!) I gained 4 lbs on the food load (I call it gorge!) so that brought me up to needing to lose 14 pounds. And I lost 17. That was right after Christmas and I didn’t gain one pound back. Not one.
The reason I am telling you this is this: SO many women, because of their weight, tolerate feeling that they can never be better than they are in this moment…that life somehow dealt them the chubby card…the slow metabolism card…the “I love my fat and you should too!” and the ever popular one amongst my crowd (the southern folks!) ”I don’t come from skinny people” card (which was my favorite card by the way!) We make up all kinds of excuses why we don’t show up fully in the world. And you know what Bombshell? My confession is that maybe I was not showing up fully in the world either…by hiding behind my excuses for putting on a little weight I could hold off launching my big vision…I wouldn’t dare appear on video and show you eye to eye how to become more Bombshell fabulous because there was NO WAY I was doing that! I could drag my dream along a bit more slowly so that people around me could feel better about who they are in the world. I could dim my light a bit so that everyone else would feel better about themselves and not get weird on me because my light was shining brighter than their expectations of themselves.
Well my dear Bombshells… that girl that was so afraid to shine her very brightest is gone. She has been replaced by a new and improved model. One that can eat when she wants to eat and not when she has a weird craving. I choose my clothes instead of my clothes choosing me. I feel amazing and it feels awesome to have everything in my Bombshell closet fit me like a dream! It’s very cool really…that I got this weight thing handled…because when you get the weight thing handled you realize it’s not the weight thing at all…it’s that we sometimes forget the magic words that we are born with and life tries really really hard to take away…
I LOVE ME.
XOXO Gigi Belmonico
p.s. Want to see my little video and know more about what I did to get here? http://www.thebombshellfactordiet.com
May 7th, 2010 at 8:12 am
As always, I love the counsel and advice of my dear friend Gigi and her Bombshell ways….but this has helped me beyond belief!!! I too, have not felt comfortable in my skin for the past 12 to 18 months, gaining about 25 pounds more that I wanted. I have never been a tiny girl but the extra 25 made me feel self conscious and not myself…not who I wanted to be.
I have tried EVERYTHING!!!!! I had heard of the HCG dieting, done with injections at $800.00 a week, well that is only for the rich and famous, not this Midwest girl. When Gigi had told me what she found I was thrilled and scared, would I fail and would it work for me?? Would I LET it work for me? I played around w/ the idea for about 2 months before I decided to CHOOSE to do this for myself. What has been FABULOUS for me, is the motivation of dropping the weight..I have now lost 17pds as of today, in 26 days!!! I am on the full 43 day protocol and can’t wait for the results at the end. It has been the easiest and hardest thing I have done for myself….choosing to change, determination and discipline. I 100% recommend this, as a lifelong dieter…this works, this changes you from the inside out.
May 7th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
WOO HOO!!! WAY TO GO Bombshell!! I am SO proud of you~YOU DID IT!! I am grinning ear to ear thinking about how awesome you must feel meeting such an amazing goal!! YOU are a Bombshell in every way my dear~NOTHING will stop you now!! I am excited to see the exciting changes and transformations, both inside and out, that are in store for you!! Thank you for keeping me up on your progress Jenn!! And as always, thank you for your compliments to me…you made my day!XOXOGigi Belmonico