madaboutmoose's Journal, 24 July 2009

AH!!! She sighs audibly!! It is FRIDAY!!! I am so glad to be wrapping up this week and am very excited about our trip to Portland to celebrate hubby's birthday! I saw another all time "low" on Frank today so I had to record it, even though I know it will go up again. My buddy Info suggested that I have "arrived" at my goal and that the task at hand now is simply refining ... more or less. I like his thinking! Actually I am in the range of where I would like to maintain, even though I'd like to take it a little lower still. As I pondered the journeys of others here on fatsecret I realized that it isn't really one particular number I want to hold fast to but instead a defined range of weight. All of our "numbers" fluctuate ... and it suddenly occurred to me that will always be true for me as well. So, while I am not "officially" celebrating my arrival at a goal weight I am going to begin to celebrate arriving in a range I can live with for life! What a difference that shift in attitude has made for me already. Am I still looking forward to seeing 175 on Frank? Why of course!!! And eventually I will. It doesn't really matter when I see it ... what matters is that I continue to do what I have been doing. Loving and respecting myself. Accepting myself. Remaining conscious about what I do with nutrition and exercise. Making wise choices. Being aware of old "tapes" in my head, old habits that have always tripped me up, and accepting that this is about the journey not some destination that I will arrive and and finally be "done." Today feels GREAT!!! I feel GREAT!!! Yea me!!! And hip hip hooray for fatsecret and all my friends here that continue to cheer me on, confront me gently when my thinking is "stinking", and well .... LIFE! Have a wonderful, healthy, joyful, and grateful day!!
178.4 lb Lost so far: 80.8 lb.    Still to go: 0 lb.    Diet followed 100%.

Diet Calendar Entries for 24 July 2009:
1808 kcal Fat: 49.07g | Prot: 104.45g | Carb: 264.43g.   Breakfast: medifast cocoa, water. Lunch: clementine, Honey Dew Melon, light swiss cheese - deli slices, ham, Yoplait Light Thick & Creamy Key Lime, Whole Wheat Sandwich Thins. Dinner: Miller Draft Genuine 64, Lean Cuisine French Bread Pizza, Perrier. Snacks/Other: beef jerky, Natural Peanut Butter with Flax Oil, banana, Marathon Nutrition Bar - Dark Chocolate Crunch, Kashi GOLEAN Cinnamon Coffee Cake, Fiber One. more...
2927 kcal Activities & Exercise: Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 4 hours and 12 minutes, Desk Work - 9 hours, Driving - 2 hours, Precor Elliptical - 38 minutes, Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 10 minutes. more...
losing 1.4 lb a week

   Support   

Comments 
Amen! oops - sorry, I got carried away with your enthusiasm! :) Yes, yes, and yes to everything in your journal today. You are in a great place! You have a wonderful day, too! ((((hugs)))) 
24 Jul 09 by member: amryk
LOL!!! Can everyone say AMEN??? I love it!!! 
24 Jul 09 by member: madaboutmoose
Glory be to Fat Secret! Amen FS Sisters and Brothers! I soooooo connected to the "tapes in my head" adage! I have so many deprecating messages in my mind from my let's-go-on-a-grapefruite-diet days in the seventies. If Jackie on "The Seventies Show" were poor instead of relatively wealthy - that character was - I! We must shout over the echoes of those self-doubting questions like "Does my butt look fat? Does my stomach stick out? Should I wear a two piece? Do I look flat chested? Can you see my tan lines?" We see pictures of ourselves as sixteen-year-olds and cry, "Not only were adorable then - we are still adorable today!" It has taken us (me) 50 years to discover that we are beeeeeeyooooooteeeeefuuuullll! Thanks for the insight about reverberations in our heads! 
24 Jul 09 by member: poet-in-motion
The word "we" should appear after the word "were" in that last quote on the previous comment. 
24 Jul 09 by member: poet-in-motion
Love your attitude and sense of knowing where you are and not stressing about not getting to that blue line NOW.  
24 Jul 09 by member: WECANDOTHIS
I'm not big on Amen's..too much scientist here but lets not go there...but on concurring with you on staying in a range of weights and being ever so proud that you are not letting Frank's fluctuations bother you so much....how bout we go with a Stuart Scott from ESPN...BOOOYAHH. 
24 Jul 09 by member: jchickos

     
 

Submit a Comment


You must  sign in to submit a comment
 

Other Related Links

Members



madaboutmoose's weight history


Get the app
    
© 2024 FatSecret. All rights reserved.