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. 😀