Getting dressed for work this morning I grabbed a pair of black pants (surprise - that's the only color I wear if I'm not wearing jeans) and slipped them on and I actually couldn't wear them because they were too baggy - woo hoo! Now, this is where the dieting part has not become a complete, 100% part of my brain... I immediately wanted to go celebrate with a giant bowl of oatmeal with brown sugar & cinnamon on top. The good thing is I wanted a big bowl of oatmeal and not a cream filled doughnut so at least I'm on the way to being healed of this worshipping I have done for so long to my Sugar God! I stepped on the scale, which I realize is an inatimate object but I have come to form a love/hate relationship with, and the numbers are moving in the right direction.
I absolutely believe it's the exercise I have started that is helping things to move along at the pace I expect/need them too for me to keep going. I also am floored at the encouragement from everyone around me. The best thing I've done is invited so many of you into my wacky, wonderful diet journey. To my family that lets me have the extra vegetables at dinner (I'm sure they hate giving those up), to my friends that don't encourage me to cheat and even let me have a shot of water with them when we are celebrating our girl time. And to Jen Soliday, in our office, who has been an amazing source of daily encouragment and great suggestions to help me keep my eye on the prize!! So the saying goes - It takes a village to get Becky to lose weight - or something like that!!!
Keep exercising! Even if all you do is run up and down the steps for 15 minutes . . . just do something. We need to keep pushing through, Becky.
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