Meeting my goals

I have to say that I love the fact that I can be in a room filled with people that I have known for years and still hide, because they do not recognize the person I have become. My weight loss has been dramatic. I look younger. I feel younger.

I do not know my exact weight at this moment, because I do not have scales where I am staying. I do know that the last time I stepped on the scales I had lost 80 pounds so far. I am now 80 pounds from my goal.

It has taken me a year and a half to reach this point in my life. Sometimes I wish that I had never given up the exercise that I was doing 10 years ago and perhaps I would not be working so hard now. Stopping is the fallacy that many people make.

Why do people reach that goal and then sit back on their laurels? Do they not know that to stay at that point they have to maintain?

I did not realize this. Of course, I was not trying to lose nor did I think that I was dieting. I was merely staying active. When I stopped, the weight came back.

Now I know that in order to stay healthy I have to have a healthy life and lifestyle that supports the new me.

New me…

I can hardly wait to see the new me! I still long for the weight to come off quickly so that I can see my results faster, but I know that is an impossible task. I also know that if it did, I might fall into that “resting on my laurels” category.

No. I think that slow and habit forming is the key.

It will not be long before I will be admiring my hard work for years to come.

Learning to Accept my Dimples and Other Life Events

Changes happen at the speed of light. Or at least that is how it feels at the moment. Don’t get me wrong, it is still the end of the semester and I feel, personally, that life has come to a complete standstill, but the changes that are happening, have nothing to do with the momentum of life around me. No. It has to do with me and my body and my newly found dimples!

I love dimples on other people, but not me. I don’t really know why. I think it has to do with the fact that my dimples are not where other people’s dimples are: on the cheeks when they smile. No. My dimples are at the top corners of my smile and on my chin.

But I’m learning

Great Expectations

I ventured out into the stores today in search of Christmas gifts. I bought gifts for the boys in my life and while I was at it, I decided to pick up some things for me, too!

The way that I buy clothes lately is to buy them one or two sizes smaller because my weight has been steadily going downward and I know that I will be in them shortly. It is not practical, but it gives me the option of having something to wear in a few weeks when I approach that goal. I need to go through my closet again and discard some clothes, but that is a good thing, right?

I saw a shirt that I just loved! I loved the color and the style. However, it was a button up shirt. I’ve never had luck with button up shirts in the past because a) I was always overweight, b) my boobs, regardless of my weight, are huge, and c) they never fit right.

So… I flipped through the shirts on the rack and the only sizes they had were 2 sizes bigger than what I wear and 2 sizes smaller. So, I bought the one that was 2 sizes smaller.

Questions for those who run or jog for exercise

I have been trying to increase the amount of time that I jog. I started out walking for 5 minutes, jogging for a minute, etc. Now I have been trying to increase the time that I am jogging. Tonight I managed to go for 7 minutes straight on the first interval of jogging and I probably could have gone longer, but I didn’t want to push it. But what I found was that after that long stretch where I had finally worked myself into a rhythm, slowing down into a walk caused my calves to cramp (more than the jogging did) and then it was hard to get back into a long stretch of jogging after that.

So my questions are:

1. Is this normal?

2. Is there any way to overcome this?

3. Is there anything that I can do to try and increase my endurance?

The Little Things… and the Big Things, Too

Yesterday, I went to my nephew’s “soon-to-be” wife’s baby shower. She is a sweet girl, who fits so well with everyone in the family. They are having a precious baby girl [who will be rather spoiled, I might add]. Everyone is so excited.

It seems rather odd to be saying that I will soon be a great-aunt, but in some ways, it feels good, too. When she opened my gift yesterday, she looked at the name tag and said, “YOU are Aunt Marcy!”

I replied, “Yes.”

She said, “All I hear about is Aunt Marcy. Aunt Marcy. And I thought, ‘Who is this Aunt Marcy?’ I thought your name was Martha?”

Yes. Everyone has called me Marcy in my family and I’m okay with it. Because… Life goes on and with it, things change. Even I have changed in my life.

I look back on

Back to my terms

Tuesday afternoon my CH rushed me to the hospital. It seems that the new medication that was supposed to lower my blood pressure actually raised it instead. On the way to the hospital, dear CH made the comment that I was like a carburetor. He said, “You tweak on one jet and it throws the rest of them out of whack.” I suppose that is what my body is like. Every time that

Who me? Complain?

I lost 6 pounds over the weekend. I guess I shouldn’t complain, because I am, after all, trying to lose weight; however, the circumstances that surround this weight loss are the objects of my complaint.

I had a doctor’s appointment Friday morning to check

What’s in a Number?

I was very discouraged when I stepped on the scales the past few days. [And, yes. Yes, I am one of those freaky people who likes to weigh themselves every single day.]

I think the reason was that the numbers were not to my liking.

But then…

Then I got dressed today

Is it Real, or is it an Optical Allusion

Alright now! I do not want to hear from the English police telling me that it should be “illusion” instead of “allusion!” The reason I say “allusion” is because I mean “allusion.”

Let me explain.

I stepped on the scale this morning and the number glaring back at me was

Catharsis

“Life changes at the blink of an
eye. How we react to it, defines us.” ~ Martha L. Bishop

I’m not sure if my advisor/professor
truly knew the impact she would have on me today when she was telling me about
“seeing and knowing what you need to do, and doing it” as opposed to “having
that information and ignoring it,” but it affected me deeply. Her point was
about writing and lesson plans. But the example she gave me was about having
the doctor tell her she needed to lose weight and she decided to take action.

That’s where I’m at, too.

Somewhere in the midst of
everything, I’m at the point where I must take action.