#jeffyalden

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Uhm. Hell yeah im about to rock this. #jeffyalden #stuco

[timjacksontalks]

Spent the morning with @jeffyalden at Ramapo Middle School. His voice was soft but his message was loud and clear. If I know anything for sure, it's that I have much more to learn. #jeffyalden #lifecoach #motivationalspeaker

[ladydread]

"Work for a cause, Not for applause. Live life to express, Not to impress. Don't strive to make your presence noticed, Just make your absence felt" - Jeff Yalden

[staaygo0ld]

I was fortunate enough to have this mans wife , Mrs.Yalden, as my English teacher in high school. And, just as lucky to be able to hear him speak a couple times. He probably doesn't remember this, but a couple years ago a few Sturgis kids and I volunteered to work and sell tshirts with him and Mrs.Yalden for our school downtown Hyannis and we talked for quite a bit. He's just as awesome in person- best of luck in your weight loss endeavors, Jeff! You're a role model to so many kids, if anyone can go through this journey and succeed, it's you. 

Followers, Watch this video! It's inspiring to those who may feel discouraged or are stuck in a rut. You are not alone! It happens, it's part of the journey. Wouldn't your weight loss story sound kinda boring if you didn't go through tough times?

A while ago, I posted an article on how to handle the aftermath of binge eating. A lot of the time it can lead to purging, self harm, and feeling the ultimate low. I'll re post they key points again so if anyone is currently going through this, can deal with it the healthier way.

So you binged. You just went through your cupboards, your refrigerator and the burger shop down the block and just about obliterated every food morsel in sight. Your pants feel tight, your stomach (and every other part of your body) feels huge, and you feel like dying. What to do now?

1. Don’t purge. I know it’s really hard to hold back from it, especially if you’ve done it before, but it will not benefit you in any way. Here is what purging does to your body, and let’s face it, it’s pretty icky. 2. Don’t reduce your calorie intake for tomorrow (or any of the days following) to nothing. It might seem like a logical plan, but if you restrict tomorrow, you’ll never get into a normal cycle of eating. You’ll be constantly ricocheting between binge and purge, starve and binge, purge and starve. You’ll never be eating normally. 3. Remember that it takes 3500 EXCESS calories to gain a pound. This means 3500 calories on top of what your body already requires to function on a day-to-day basis. It’s highly unlikely your stomach can even hold this much, much less double that, so it’s very unlikely you’ll gain more than two pounds from this! Your progress is not back at zero. Your efforts so far are not null. This is just a little bump in the road. 4. Put on comfy clothes. Honestly. Tight clothes will just make you feel worse. Feeling bad = more binging. Take off those tight jeans, and put on some cozy sweats. 5. Use your binge as a learning experience. What triggered it? Did you feel out of control? Did you actually want all the food you were eating, or were you just eating for eating’s sake? Did you even like the taste of some of it? Do you think you binged because you deprived yourself of a treat you wanted earlier? Did you binge because you’ve been starving all day and just couldn’t take it anymore? Try and understand your binge, understand what your mind went through when your hands were reaching for all that food. The more you can understand the reasons behind your binge, the better you’ll be next time at preventing them—when you’re standing in the middle of a binge, it actually has nothing to do with willpower, it’s usually the result of decisions you made much earlier. For more information on how your brain can trick you into binging when its not getting enough nutrients, click here and here. 6. Remember that you are NOT a failure, bad for eating, undeserving of life, or ugly because you decided to give yourself what you really wanted.

Now for the fun part. Tomorrow, wake up all bright and sunny. Leap right out of bed (Note: when wondering how to get out of bed, the answer is always “leap.”) Have a delicious bowl of healthy for breakfast and get really excited about feeling awesome all day because of all the healthy food you’re going to bless your body with. Take a walk, if you’d like to. Smile all day long. Drink some water.  But don’t purge and don’t restrict. Eat how you’d normally eat, cause you’re a normal eating healthy person who does not fall prey to freak eating cycles. You don’t need that shit, look at you, you’re hot as hell

Thanks again, Jeff, for this video. Best of luck to you and everyone out there who's struggling through this journey.

"'Cause sometimes you just feel tired,

Feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up.

But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength

And just pull that shit out of you and get that motivation to not give up

And not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse."

StayGold.