TWENTY-FIVE TO LIFE!

It is Weigh-in Tuesday, though I am behind in reporting my progress.  I did, in fact, reach my twenty-five pound weight loss goal last Tuesday.  Finally!  (I'm waiting for the bells and sirens, cheers, and streamers to  fall from the sky)  I can't disguise my disappointment that I did not exceed the goal, especially with all my hard work and dedication last week, but I have learned to accept the wins I get, however small.  I have not weighed myself today to check for any further progress, but I suspect a standstill as I did not have as good a week and a post holiday weigh-in is never in anyone's favor.  

We did some grilling this weekend and some swimming.  I'm not sure the swimming compensated for the grilling, especially since I did not make it to the gym this weekend, but you have to have a little fun once in awhile, right?  I feel stronger and healthier every day that I continue on this mission.  I just wish the scale reflected how I feel, in pounds.  It gets pretty depressing to think that with my goal, which I never articulated before but is somewhere around 145 pounds, that I will need to do exactly what I have done up until this point about another five times.  If I break my weight down into twenty-five pound increments, I will need to repeat my efforts 4.8 times in order to reach my goal.  Sighhhhhh....that can be real depressing, if you let it be.  Especially, if you look at the amount of time it has taken me to reach the first twenty-five pound goal.  Generally, what follows is increasingly more difficult.

Yep folks, it's like a prison sentence.  It feels like twenty-five years just to lose twenty-five pounds!   I am going to consider my twenty-five pound weight loss the first milestone in what I hope will be a succession of twenty-five pound weight losses.  Here's to hoping the next twenty-five come easier and faster!

“I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days.”  ~Totie Fields