Hi ladies!!
TheSecondHalf- great news that you did not gain anything over the holidays. Something to celebrate for sure.
skinnyki- hello to you! Hope all is well. Like what you said: "we can do it!"
ShelBl- waving hello to you.
Fiona W- welcome and congratulations on your huge weight loss!! 56 pounds is fantastic. Can I ask what you have done to get there?
CourtneyDaisey- welcome! Maybe think about 290 this way: it is NOT 300!!!
For me- I saw 291 this morning and that freaked me out. Some is salt but I think most of it is sugar and fat. Ugg.
I have been thinking that I need to start trying to frame weight loss less in a "loss" framework and more in a "treating myself well" framework. I tend to focus too much on the fact that I can't have food that I crave and that I am deprived. I still automatically see food as the way to soothe all the bumps of life. I see food as my reward for having a stressful job and too much to do. I need to start thinking positive- all the ways my life will improve with less weight. Especially my health.
Anyway, today I did some good things for me: started a new journal about what steps I am doing each day to treat me nice, rode exercise bike, ate a healthy breakfast and lunch and planned a healthy dinner, and did my arm/shoulder weights.
Wanting 2014 to be the year I hurt less at the end than at the beginning.
Let's rock and roll 290er's!!!