Facing the Ugliness
I just did something very difficult, which I'd been avoiding. I updated my ticker, which, before I got sick, was 2 pounds from my goal. It is currently 20 from goal.
I'd turned my signature off so I wouldn't have to see it, but I decided it's important that I do. Between the thyroid drugs and the pain keeping me from strong workouts, I have lost that total control I once had over my body and it sucks. But I cannot and will not accept that loss. It's temporary and I will fight it with all I have in me.
I'm going to bring that ticker down again.
Lisa
I'd turned my signature off so I wouldn't have to see it, but I decided it's important that I do. Between the thyroid drugs and the pain keeping me from strong workouts, I have lost that total control I once had over my body and it sucks. But I cannot and will not accept that loss. It's temporary and I will fight it with all I have in me.
I'm going to bring that ticker down again.
Lisa
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
Lisa,
I totally understand that one, it has been hard to update my sticker all along, knowing that at one time I was down to 156 lbs., but my personal journey is one of honesty and I need to be honest with myself as well as others and so, it is what it is, I don't intend to stay where I am and hope to get it to 165 one day in the not too distant future. . .
We've got the right attitude!
Laureen
I totally understand that one, it has been hard to update my sticker all along, knowing that at one time I was down to 156 lbs., but my personal journey is one of honesty and I need to be honest with myself as well as others and so, it is what it is, I don't intend to stay where I am and hope to get it to 165 one day in the not too distant future. . .
We've got the right attitude!
Laureen
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
Lisa,
I was very excited today, because I was able to change the my sticker and for the first time in quite a while I am in the 170s, woo hoo. . . a ways to go before I get where I was happiest, but it is progress we aim for now, isn't it and in the past 2 months I've dropped 5 lbs. and while to some it does not seem like a lot, I was told by Elena, the nutritionist at Barix, it could take me up to a year to get to where I was, so I am now closer by 5 lbs. . . and I expect to do more before my 5 year surgiversary, my goal for then is to be closer to 170. . .
Yay us, the truth is not easy to tell, but, for me personally, I lied to myself for years and look at where it took me. . .
Hugs, Laureen
I was very excited today, because I was able to change the my sticker and for the first time in quite a while I am in the 170s, woo hoo. . . a ways to go before I get where I was happiest, but it is progress we aim for now, isn't it and in the past 2 months I've dropped 5 lbs. and while to some it does not seem like a lot, I was told by Elena, the nutritionist at Barix, it could take me up to a year to get to where I was, so I am now closer by 5 lbs. . . and I expect to do more before my 5 year surgiversary, my goal for then is to be closer to 170. . .
Yay us, the truth is not easy to tell, but, for me personally, I lied to myself for years and look at where it took me. . .
Hugs, Laureen
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
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