The Day

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Today was the day!  THE day, the one I have waited twelve years for.  Here’s what I saw when I logged my weight online this morning.

And then the remainder of the day, here is what you saw on my face.

Ha ha, yes, I was pretty pleased. 😉  It is a really, really good feeling to know I am finally at a weight that I can be happy with.  Is my body perfect? Heck no!  But it’s a body that I think is acceptable for this forty-year-old woman, and one that I think I can live with and maintain for the long haul.

That is, of course, the crux of it all…maintaining.  I am now officially on Maintenance (via the online version of WW; for the meetings, I still have to get through the process of slowly losing all that unnecessary extra weight I posted about last week, lol!).  This is exciting and yet kind of scary, too.  I’ve spent pretty much my whole adult life in a mindset where I was always wanting to lose weight. That doesn’t mean I was always actively trying to lose weight in that time, but in my head, I always knew that I needed to lose weight.

For the last 21 weeks especially, I have been absolutely enmeshed in losing weight (along with exercise).   It has been an absolute daily habit for me for 147 days. That’s a long time!  Now, I have to switch my way of thinking to maintaining…without, you know, going overboard and eating everything in sight, ha ha! I suspect it will take some getting used to.  This starts today, when I had an extra 6 points per day bestowed upon me by the eTools gods. Woo hoo!  More wine!!  Okay, just kidding.  I won’t drink all my extra points.  It will be interesting, though, to see how it works, or rather, how it feels.  For example, I ate my normal amount today for breakfast and lunch, and when I found myself hungry, I ate some fruit, like I normally do.  By the time we got done with hockey tonight and were ready for dinner, I found myself with 19 points left.  Nineteen?  Holy cow!  That’s a lot of points.  My total for the day now (with the extra 6) is 32. I’m not sure if I can eat this many points per day!  Well, without having ice cream and cake for dessert every night.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 😉

Today’s accomplish is just that…today’s accomplishment.  Tomorrow, there will be new things in store.  But for today, I’m going to do a little more smiling, eat a little more food, and just enjoy the feeling of being at goal. 😀

 




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