Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Mini Rewards

How do you reward yourself? While on my weight loss journey I tried to think of ways to reward myself for losing weight. It is like when you were little and your mom would wrap her arms around you and give you a kiss and tell you how proud she is of you.

Even though losing the weight in and if itself is rewarding. My roommate said I should reward myself. Normally a person would go out and eat to celebrate, but as Jason my group leader says, "that's what got us where we are in the first place." So what I'm about to tell you may sound a little silly and frivolous to some, it really cheers me up and makes me happy.

Fresh Flowers always make me happy. Especially Gerbera Daisies (my personal favorite), but any flower makes me happy. Spring is my favorite season and part of that is because I grew up in Utah we always had about 4-5 mos of brown drabness. Then about March everything started to turn green and most of all the flowers started to bloom.

Now here comes the frivolity... I have been known to buy flowers for myself quite often. In fact I have bought them for myself more than I have received them from significant others. Well how have I been rewarding myself you might guess?? See for yourself... My reward for losing 20.6 lbs

3 comments:

Jaclyn said...

I think that is a fantastic reward! I think it is so important to reward yourself for things, don't you remember my water incentive plan when I was pregnant? I never rewarded myself with food. I think there is always something better than food and I think flowers are perfect!

Erin said...

Yes I remember you water incentive plan when you were pregnant. Only you would have to have a water incentive plan. Me on the other hand I downed one quart of water just at dinner time.

Jaclyn said...

Yes, but we each need our own incentive for something.