Today is the first day of the rest of my life...

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The best present you can give yourself today, is focus, and it will be a gift in the long run!!!

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Donna

Absolutely!!

~Lori

 
Well said Ms Shell !!!!

frisco

This is exactly what I was thinking and needed to hear today!  My stinkin scale has been stuck for 2 weeks and hovering just above the 100lb loss mark. Driving me crazy!  I know some of it has been my lack of enthusiasm with exercise and some of it has been the food choices I am making (eating too much fruit and potatoes!!).  Today I woke up and said, today I am going to start to really work my sleeve!  Protein, protein, protein and more exercise!!  Hope it gets that scale to budge!!

Good for you Ms.Shell!  As always you are an inspiration!!

Words to live by, Ms. Shell.  I try to remember this every day.

Yeah me too....

I have been doing quite a bit of soul searching these past couple days also. I read your post hours ago, and have been mulling it over in my head; mushing it around with my own thoughts of where I have come from; where I am, where I want to be......both physically, mentally and just about everything else.

Changing our weight in such a big way is a monumental change/shift in who we are, how we are percieved by others, how we see ourselves.....it changes how we do everything in life; from the basics -- eating, sleeping, going to the bathroom....to exercise, how we move, what we do on a daily basis.... we actually become someone different/new/changed in certain aspects and this is a huge change.

I lost my job not too long ago, and in the interview process and in taking a new position; I realized that these people didn't know me when I was 100 pounds heavier. Their perception of me is who I am today (yes, a duh... moment; but they have no idea what struggles I Have been through with my weight.) and I had to sit and think on that.

Who we have become, the physical body that we present to others, our sucess and failures of this journey are all right out there -- for all to see. It's just us, that sometimes are waaaay behind the times in seeing our own success !!