Thank you all

[siercia]

For your moral support and well wishes. The first meeting wasn't nearly as scary as I feared, although the life changing prospect of what I'm undertaking still has me flummoxed.

I've decided to keep a secondary journal, documenting my weight loss process... I toyed with setting up a friends group (and limiting my rambling to just those who wanted to hear), but I don't want to have to make my ramblings friends only. So, while angst may still show up here from time to time, most of my dieting tales will be in lessofme. Feel free to add it, if you're interested, or don't if you're not. I won't be offended.

It was sobering to realize on weigh in yesterday that the top weight of my goal range was (to within half a pound) exactly half of what I weigh now. If I'm successful at this, I'll be half the person I am at the finish.

Wow.

Comments

best wishes

[tarecat.livejournal.com]

If you get to a point where you're interested in joining some sort of fitness thingg let me know. : )
I'd love to have the company.

Unfortunetly my curent kick boxing is going away soonish.

I'll post about that later though.

*hugs*

BTW
I'm sure all of us love all of you, just as, right now. ; )

Re: best wishes

[siercia]

I am definitely going to be doing some kind of fitness thing. But, unfortunately, between work and family, it will probably be of the "squeezed in whenever I can find a spare 20 minutes" variety, instead of getting to go to a nice regularly scheduled class. I wish I could though, and thanks for the offer =)

best of luck!

[mamawrites.livejournal.com]

I know the struggle, really I do.

[asmodel.livejournal.com]

I'm proud of you. It's pretty scary contemplating the lifestyle changes you need to make to loose weight, but once you've incorporated them in, it's second nature.

I lost I think it converts to 20 pounds in the past year, and possibly 10 or so in the year before, mainly by thinking, oh, I don't eat enough veggies, oh, I should switch to low fat dairy, oh, why don't I ride to work instead of paying for a tram, perhaps I should take up yoga because I like being flexible. Little things a bit at a time is my advice. I'm still 10 pounds above what I'd like to be, but I'm really not complaining.

[siercia]

Wow, good for you! I'm trying to take it a little bit at a time. First, we learn about proper portion sizes, and trying to stick to them. Next is trying to fit some kind of regular exercise into my routine. We'll see how I do for that.

And then just take it week by week, and hope for the best.