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Originally Posted by Lilita175
Jordanna, I read your blogs. I love the Rolling with Rosie one. It has the most awesome pictures. And your little guy is sooooo cute.
I'm still laughing about the total on the challenge chart. A ton of fun with a ton of friends.
I had a long talk with my sister Evita about "emotional weight" (a term I made up.) I am wondering if the 220's are your emotional weight?
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Thanks for the compliments on my blog Lilita! They help me get out some of my creative energy. I went to school for 10 years to become a psychologist, and I was miserable the whole time. It wasn't until I was finished school and became a photographer and a very unpolished unaccomplished writer that I became happy with myself! I guess the lesson learned is listen to your heart and not your parents when it comes to making decisions about your career
I also had to laugh at our growing weight total as more of us keep joining the challenge. I started telling my husband our totals and when he came down this morning he said "so how much do you guys weigh now?!" lol.
Regarding the separate forum, it would definitely help me keep track of everyone's #'s now that there are so many of us, and I could probably shrink down the charts file size and post it on the thread every other day or something. It's up to you guys really, I don't mind doing it either way
Regarding my emotional weight - you might have something there....
-cue dramatic music-
When I was in my late teens, early 20's I met and fell in love with a guy off the internet. I weighed about 180 lbs then I think, I was athletic (played hockey), but a bigger girl...anyway we talked for like 2 years on the computer and phone and I was madly and tragically in love.
He came to visit and I thought it was love, when he left I didn't hear from him for a few weeks and I was devastated....when I finally got up the nerve to call him he told me he was dating someone and that was that...I gained 40ish lbs in the process of healing my heart...(today we are amazing friends who have known each other for more than 12 years but at the time it was tragic and devastating for me - I was young, he was the first guy I fell in love with...blah blah blah)
After some random wrecks of relationships I started dating my very best friend who is now my husband, and life was wonderful! I lost a bunch of weight and things were going great until we got pregnant (we were excited and happy about it) and then had a miscarriage at 14 weeks...I gained some weight while dealing with that, and then we decided to try and
get pregnant again...for a long time....until we gave up on having kids....during that time I gained a bunch more weight and ended up in the 220s again...from there it went on for about 5 years and got worse and worse until I yo-yo dieted my way in to the 270's....
That's the weight I was at when we adopted Hudson, that's when I realized I was going to die from morbid obesity if I didn't change my life, and so here I am
So maybe you're right, maybe I get hung up in the 220's because I carry a lot of emotional weight here.