What are you celebrating and proud of? Weds

Hello....happy hump day.....it's almost the weekend....YAY!

Anybody celebrating anything today?  Feeling proud about something?  Let's share and support each other....doesn't matter how big or small you think it is, if it is something you are happy about, celebrate it, feel proud about it, and own it.

Have a great day!!  

Good afternoon, FlyGirl...are you still basking in the afterglow?  ;-)

I'm proud that after getting on the scale this morning and gaining FOUR POUNDS for no reason, I didn't freak out and go into a shark eating frenzy.  Back in the day, that is exactly what would have happened.  I would have thought, what is the point of staying on a diet if I'm just going to gain weight.  Now that I know it's just my hormones fluctuating, I don't let it get to me anymore.  Something interesting that I've found is that when the hormones go crazy on me it's best to just do aerobics and skip the strength training until they work themselves out.  I guess that's what this journey is all about, listening to what your body is saying and just go with the flow.

Mary

Hi Mary,
Yes I am still flying high on the experience....sometimes I really can't believe I got in the plane let alone take the controls and do the take off (of course the pilot had his hands and feet on the controls too) but it was the most amazing feeling lifting the plane off the ground.

I too can relate to the many times I would throw in the towel because I didn't lose one week or heaven forbid I gained.� It was a struggle to stop doing it this last time but glad to say I did manage to overcome it for the most part.....I still don't like to see much fluctuation on the scale.....I have a 2 lb threshold....2 lbs up or down that's it.

Have a good day!
TTFN
"FlyGirl"

Well FlyGirl, I don't LIKE to see much fluctuation either but that just goes to show how different these two bodies of ours truly are.  With this PCOS, my hormones can cause a gain just on a whim, for no reason at all, and BAM, I've gained three of four pounds.  And what really stinks is that I have to ride it out until it decides to go in the other direction.  If that's not God's way of teaching me patience, then I just don't know!!!

Flygirl LOL - I'm still excited over your flying lesson and I wasn't even there.

Mary - I'm so sensitive to sodium in my food that if I even look at a salt shaker I can gain 5 pounds of water - but at my worst I could gain 10 pounds of water and my ankles were so swollen that I couldn't bend them. I'm really, really careful with sodium now.

I'm very proud today because I'm continuing to do some heavy spring cleaning (LOL I'm doing it slowly, should take me a year to finish with peaking at the computer regularly) so I thought I wouldn't walk today. DH dragged me to the mall and I did a brisk 5 mile walk. Near the end a really kind woman stopped us, was insistant but apologetic at the same time - so we did stop. OMG she started to tell me that she has been watching me walk for over a year now in the mall (it will be 2 years this August that I started walking in the mall) and she just had to tell me how wonderful I look and that I've lost a lot of weight - oh yeah, and she said DH also looked good - but she was amazed at my progress. OH BOY, I'm walking on air. I'm so glad I listened to DH and went to the mall today.

Skylar, you got fans and paparazzi after you LOL

LOL - I do. I have had strangers stop and say hello when I'm out running errands and I'm no where near the mall that I walk in and when I ask them if I know them in an embarrassing way they tell me that they see me walking in the mall - this has happened 3 different times over this past year. So strangers - who obviously are strange people - are watching me. There are a couple of walkers that we see from time to time that we wave to - but both the lady who stopped us yesterday and the other 3 are people I don't wave to and only one of them I have seen and waved to in the mall since meeting her at the grocery store.

Do your remember your mom telling you never to wear torn underwear because you never know when you'll be in an accident and you don't want to be embarrassed in an emergency room? Well this is similar - take care with how you dress when you go to the mall or other public place because you don't know who is watching and remembering you. Lucky for me this has all been a positive experience.

That's good, you deserve a little fame and recognition for what you've accomplished. 

Thanks for the reminder, I'm gonna have to remember to pay attention to my appearance from now on, i'm really bad when it comes to that, I've totally let myself go but recently i've been thinking I should go shopping and get myself some make up and I haven't bought new clothes in eons, I'm basically a mess but the more weight I lose the more I feel like fixing myself up

WAHOOO you SUPERSTAR you!!!  

Enjoy the high.  Bet it makes waking again today even easier and even more enjoyable!!!