Today is my birthday and....
Hi all,
I really wanted to share this story with someone...and don't feel like I could share all these private weight details with just anyone...and then I thought of all the supportive people here would would GET it.
Today I turn 36. Today I weigh my lowest as an adult, 250...6 years ago when I turned 30 my hubby threw me a surprise party and I was at my heaviest..(335), after seeing those pictures it motivated me to lose weight. I lost 75 pounds thru a very low fat high exercise diet. I had never been happier...I have had 2 children since then, and though I never got back to the high of 335 I was at 300 when I had surgery...
I look back at the last 6 years and just see that the ENTIRE length of time was spent obsessing about my weight. How big I was, how much I lost, how much to gain during pregnancy, how to get off the post pregnancy weight etc..it was awful.
I am bound and determined to NOT do that for these last 4 years of my 30's. I am looking better, feeling great, and feel as though I am in my 20's again. I think we should all celebrate our lives and try to focus on all the good, and not worry so much about the numbers. I know this is hard, I still weigh everyday...but I dont get all freaked out anymore. I know this is permanent, and I dontwant to look back when I turn 40 saying ...geesh I spent a whole decade worrying about weight stuff..I want to live life and enjoy it!!
Anyway..thats my birthday wisdom...
Kris
PS I am having some friends over for lunch..and instead of my 'old favorites' which would have been this fancy choc. cake, and hi fat fried foods..
were having tuna, and fruit salad. I can hardly wait!
Have a great day everyone.
happy birthday!!! 
And congrats on your weight loss!!
My birthday is coming up on Thursday, and I am going to celebrate with SOMETHING.... I don't know just yet, but it will be something good! 
And I agree totally with your post... I don't think of myself on a diet. I made a lifestyle change, and this is just the way I live now. I did not go through the pain and risk of surgery to be on a "diet" for the rest of my life! I eat healthy, focusing on protein, and I am doing it for my health. I can't think of it as a diet, plain and simply because every diet I've ever been on failed, and I don't want the stigma to stick in my mind.
Know what i mean?
And congrats on your weight loss!!
My birthday is coming up on Thursday, and I am going to celebrate with SOMETHING.... I don't know just yet, but it will be something good!
And I agree totally with your post... I don't think of myself on a diet. I made a lifestyle change, and this is just the way I live now. I did not go through the pain and risk of surgery to be on a "diet" for the rest of my life! I eat healthy, focusing on protein, and I am doing it for my health. I can't think of it as a diet, plain and simply because every diet I've ever been on failed, and I don't want the stigma to stick in my mind.
Know what i mean? 
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