This morning I weighed in at 30 pounds under my highest weight! And 25 under where I started just a year ago. I feel good, even though there is a ways to go yet! I did not put on all the weight in one go, it was over several years, so I don't feel the need to lose it quickly.
I am very pleased, I can tell the difference in so many little ways. I had convinced myself the weight was not having a negative affect because I could hike and work and do anything I wanted to, and that much was true. I was not unable to do something because I was too heavy. But...losing weight has shown me where I could have been doing more, have more energy, have more esteem to try new things, to put myself out there a little more and not hang back.
I am excited to be going into the spring and summer still losing, I hope my new energy and stamina will help with further loss and toning. Go me! : ) And Matt is neck and neck with me, it has been great having him along for the effort, he's just as gung-ho and fallible as I am, one day hiking 5 miles and eating 1500 calories, the next, a pasta binge and movie night. The point is, we get back on track and don't count the off days as anything other than a day off. It's not bad or backtracking or firm proof of our inability to stick with it. It's life, a celebration, a lazy afternoon to snuggle and read and then eat a pizza.
Food is a HUGE base of any type of event from soccer practice with orange slices and grapes to weddings with buffets and cake. Every event and holiday has a food, there's no way to avoid that and no reason to. We are living, after all. : ) Trying to find moderation, in all things. Eating, spending, saving, working, lounging, parenting, as a wife, a friend, a community member. Some kind of balance and I am realizing there's not a balance where everything is leveled out, there are peaks and valleys in everything. So, I prefer to think of it more as climbing up and sliding down, always moving ahead, just sometimes not as far as I think I should go or as I want to go.
