Hello Friends! I'm having lots of computer issues so posting may be iffy for a while. May be time to buy a new machine. Anyway, I'm keeping up with everyone and will be back when I can!

Dear Eydie - you will be missed. Don't forget to leave a breadcrumb trail and we'll keep the lights on in the palace for whenever you can return.

Lovely day here today. Charlie veered east and we scarcely had a shower. I came down just before six, went out for the paper. It was so lovely, just getting lighter, coolish and cricket music. I had no trouble this morning getting myself together. A few minutes like that are powerful.

Leisurely day planned. Aaaah! But going out to lunch.

Have not done well weight wise this sprint. But I have managed my other goals - drinking more water and getting more fun (moments, sometimes) in my life. And though scale weight is up from my sprint low, I refuse to believe it's a gain - rather that up and down of water weight. But SOMEDAY it's going to all come together......isn't it?

A musing -

I had to leave church last night a few minutes before it was over as I had a coughing spell. While I was outside waiting for DH a lovely couple came out and congratulated me on my weight loss and how well I am now able to walk.

Now you'd think I'd be happy about that, wouldn't you? But something about it is bothering me. I do not know these people well. I did meet this woman decades ago and at the time, I was quite slim and she was pretty heavy. She lost weight before I ever saw her again (some years later) and has maintained slimness ever since. So it's not like I think she doesn't understand weight loss and the dynamics of it all. I think it might be that they may think I couldn't walk well because I was heavier and not realize I've had knee replacements. Or do I just think I don't know them well enough for them to have commented? I'm not offended or anything, as I said, they are lovely people. There's just something about it I'm not comfortable with.

Anagram, it's interesting, I think, to watch our reactions to others' ideas about our weight or weight loss. For example, I've noticed recently that when I meet someone new who didn't know me when I was heavy, and they comment on how thin I am, I always feel compelled to tell them that I've lost nearly 50 pounds instead of just accepting the compliement and letting it go at that. It always floors me when I do that too, like WHY do I do that?! And if the person who's compliemented me is heavy, then I really want to dig in and tell them I used to weigh more, that I just didn't pop put of the box like this!
The woman you're talking about probably commented because she really does know what it takes to lose weight, knows how challenging it is. I'm sure she wasn't aware of your knee replacements---I think that's the part that would bother me if I were in your shoes. To think that your weight was affecting the way you walk--I would've had to set her straight on that one! Don't let it nag at you--sounds like an overall compliement to me!

Anagramatic, I love it when folks say I've lost weight ... even when I've gained!