Lasting Transformations

💛👑🐝 CONSISTENCY – Small Daily Habits Create Lasting Transformations 🐝👑💛

Making the decision to be consistent with small daily habits is often the beginning of successful and sustainable transformation.

This week marked my first week back in the pool focusing on healing, recovery, and rebuilding strength. Through aquatic exercises, stretching, walking, arm and leg work, core strengthening, squats, and step exercises, I've been gradually increasing my repetitions each day.

🎉 Week 1 Complete: 5 out of 7 days! 🎉

Was I motivated every day? No.

Was I pain-free? Definitely not.

Did I feel like going every day? Nope.

💛 But I showed up anyway.

Sometimes success isn't about doing something perfectly. It's about continuing to show up and making the next healthy choice.

Every workout may not seem significant by itself, but small daily habits repeated consistently over time create powerful results.

💛 One workout at a time.
💛 One choice at a time.
💛 One day at a time.

That's how Lasting Transformations happen.

Consistency is Key.
DO IT ANYWAY! 💪💛👑🐝


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💛👑🐝 REMINDER: LASTING TRANSFORMATIONS BARIATRIC SUPPORT GROUP – TONIGHT!

💛 Hello Lasting Transformations Family!

🤩 Tonight is our June Virtual Support Group Gathering!

📱 Virtual Support Group
📅 Thursday, June 4
🕖 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

💛🌟💛 JUNE is about EMOTIONAL EATING and COPING!

Many of us know what to do when it comes to our health journey... but emotions, stress, loneliness, boredom, frustration, celebration, and life itself can often influence our choices.

This month we'll be focusing on:
💛 Understanding Emotional Eating
💛 Building Emotional Intelligence
💛 Healthy Coping Strategies
💛 Mindset Shifts
💛 Faith Over Fear
💛 Daily Choices that Create Lasting Transformations

💛 We are building on everything we've learned together:
✅ Grace over Guilt
✅ Identity over the Scale
✅ Consistency over Perfection
✅ Mindset Shifts and Food Noise

💛 This is a SAFE space.
🚫 No Judgment
🚫 No Comparison
🚫 No Shame
🚫 No "Shoulds"

🤝 Share your journey.
📖 Learn and grow together.
🙏 Receive encouragement and prayer.
💛 Support others who truly "get it."

Purpose Verse
📖 2 Corinthians 1:4
"He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others."

💛 If you've had bariatric surgery and are looking for support, encouragement, accountability, and faith-centered community, we'd love to have you join us!

📩 Please contact me ASAP if interested in attending and I will send you the meeting details.

💛👑🐝 YOU ARE NOT ALONE!











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💛👑🐝 PUT YOURSELF ON THE CALENDAR

How often do we schedule appointments, meetings, errands, and obligations for everyone else... but forget to schedule time for ourselves?

One of the biggest mindset shifts in creating lasting transformation is realizing that taking care of yourself is not selfish... it's necessary!
💛 Put yourself on the calendar.
💛 Plan your day with intention.
💛 Make time for your health, your healing, your faith, your rest, and your recovery.

Remember:
✅ Consistency is more important than perfection.
Small steps taken daily create lasting results over time.

✅ Progress doesn't require giant leaps.
Sometimes the most important step is simply showing up.

✅ Down days are part of the journey.
Rest is not failure. Recovery is not weakness.

✅ There is NO shame in taking an intentional break.
Listen to your body. Honor what you need. Then begin again when you're ready.

✅ Pace yourself.
Transformation is a marathon, not a sprint. Sustainable change happens one choice, one workout, one meal, and one day at a time.

✅ Love yourself enough to care for yourself.
Speak to yourself with the same grace and compassion you would offer a friend.

💛 At Lasting Transformations, we believe:
🚫 No Shame
🚫 No Guilt
🚫 No Comparisons
🚫 No "Shoulds"

Instead...
💛 Choose Grace.
💛 Choose Progress.
💛 Choose Consistency.
💛 Choose Yourself.

Today, I chose to put myself on the calendar.

What is ONE thing you can do today to invest in your health, healing, or happiness?

💛 YOU ARE NOT ALONE! 💛👑🐝












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💛👑🐝 Hello my LASTING TRANSFORMATIONS FRIENDS...
🌟 JOIN US for our JUNE Monthly VIRTUAL LASTING TRANSFORMATIONS BARIATRIC SUPPORT GROUP... 1st Thursday 6/4 from 7-8:30pm.
💛🌟💛 EMOTIONAL EATING AND COPING!
💛 Contact ME ASAP if interested in attending!

❤️😍❤️ Belated Mother's Day Celebration Blessings

💛💛👑🐝 Hello LASTING TRANSFORMATIONS BARIATRIC SUPPORT GROUP FRIENDS!!!

💛 Please let me know if you plan on attending our MAY IN-PERSON LASTING TRANSFORMATIONS BARIATRIC SUPPORT GROUP!

📆 Saturday, May 16th
⏰ 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM

💛🌟💛 MAY is all about MINDSET SHIFTS and FOOD NOISE!

💛 Join us for a meaningful time of sharing, learning, encouragement, and support with others who truly "get it" and understand the rollercoaster of the bariatric journey.

💛 We grow together. We encourage one another. We support each other.

💛👑🐝 Contact ME ASAP if you are interested in attending!
💛 RSVP required to receive location details.

Looking forward to seeing y'all! 💛👑🐝

💛👑🐝 Lasting Transformations... LIVE WITH PASSION ❤️

💛 Passion is not about having a perfect life… it’s about choosing to keep showing up with faith, purpose, gratitude, and love through every season.

💛 Whether you are navigating a weight loss journey, grief and loss, health and wellness challenges, life transitions, or the unseen impacts of serving our country… YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

💛 I’m grateful to walk alongside those who are ready to make the mindset shifts and lifestyle changes that lead to healing, growth, purpose, and lasting transformation.

💛 Live with passion. Love yourself enough to grow through what you go through. Trust God in the process. 🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻














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💛👑🐝 Hello my LASTING TRANSFORMATIONS FRIENDS...
🌟 TODAY is the Day for our Monthly 1st Thursday VIRTUAL LASTING TRANSFORMATIONS BARIATRIC SUPPORT GROUP from 7-8:30pm.
💛🌟💛 MINDSET SHIFTS and FOOD NOISE!
💛 Contact ME ASAP if interested in attending!

💛👑🐝 Reflection Time! It’s the 1st MONDAY in MAY …

❓️What did you say you were going to start TODAY… because YOU were waiting for MONDAY?
✨ Get up early
✨ Spend time with God
✨ Journal
✨ Take a walk
✨ Exercise
✨ Make a healthy breakfast

…and then… what happened?

Did you hit snooze for “just 15 more minutes”…
only to wake up ⏰ 30 minutes later, rushing into your day, already behind?

💥 Pause. Reset. Reflect.

Only YOU are in charge of your choices and your daily routine.
Who you spend time with…
How you take care of yourself…Mind. Body. Soul.
What you tell yourself...
What actions you take...

So when you look back on the time you’ve been given…
you’re not left with regret... REMOVE the "SHOULDS"

🚫 NO SHOULDS!
🛑 STOP SHOULDing on YOURSELF!
🛑 STOP SHOULDing on OTHERS!
🛑 STOP allowing OTHERS to SHOULD on YOU!

💛 TODAY… MAKE the DECISION!
💛 TODAY… TAKE the ACTION!

❤️ Love yourself enough to PUT YOU ON THE CALENDAR. 📅

Do the things that are truly important to YOU... without guilt, shame, or toxic “shoulds.”

✨ You are built for MORE
✨ Remove distractions
✨ Eliminate toxicity
✨ Choose YOU
✨ YOU are Enough
✨ YOU are Worthy

💥 It’s MONDAY… do something that MATTERS.
Something that will impact your life for GOOD.l

💛 You are NOT Alone!
I’m here to walk alongside you on your journey of
LASTING TRANSFORMATIONS

📖 2 Corinthians 1:4

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**Queen Bee Kathy**