I am in the first week of a new Diet Bet, reading comments and commenting occasionally. I am happy to see the accomplishments so far. It is easy to live through the acomplishment of others when you have only a few of your own.
I thought I had this as I just finished a Diet Bet and lost the required weight. I figured out I DO NOT have this. Yes, I lost some this week, but if I compare myself to others my percentage is much smaller. I feel like I struggle and fall short. I could blame it on my age, I could blame it on my health, I could pity myself for regaining 60 pounds in a years time and now the fight to remove it is much harder. I turn that around and tell myself that I am still almost 60 pounds lighter than when I began a healthier journey 5 years ago. I am not in even an overweight range yet, a healthy BMI not sure that will happen as I have only so many years to do it in, a healthier range, oh my yes.
We bought a different house, then my husband lost his job, I lost mine a month later. My daughter had a baby that was saved by the miracles of science, all within that year I gained back the weight. I hat whatever hubby was eating because making healthy meals for just me were too expensive, I was on the run for six months straight trying to get to docotr and therapy appointments for my grandson, with more to come. Will I give up, no. Will I get sad when people weighing 60 pounds less than me lose the same amount of weight that I am losing, maybe. I will still move more, eat less, enjoy my garden vegetables as long as they are here and feel some sense of happiness with each tenth of a pound that is no longer on my body. Since the beginning of August I have lost weight to the equivilant of what my tiny grandson weighs, 12 pounds. Not much in the grand scheme of things, the stress is still here, I am still running to appointments, attitude is everything right now.
I will succeed, I will do it slower than some, alright slower than most. I will keep moving and I will work on getting healthy until the day I no longer breathe. Why some of my family ask, because I am important and because I can.