I'd be at my goal weight now instead of being 80 pounds overweight.


Unfortunately, wishing isn't enough.


I am worthy and I will follow my program today.


I know I'll never look like this again but this is what's on my fridge today.

You betcha, baby. And I'm behind you all the way!
((((Noranoranora))))

YOU ARE WORTHY!!!!!!

and don't you forget it!!!!!!

with a little work, and a lot of perseverance DREAMS DO COME TRUE!!!!

YOU can do it! YOU are not alone!

perseverance = sticking to a purpose or aim, never giving up what one has set out to do.

persevere = persist, continue steadily in doing something hard. To try try again is to persevere

Love your picture Nora...I have one on the bulletin board in my kitchen of me in a bathing suit (waist up only ) We will get there yet!!!!

peach

Thank you so much, Roofie and Peach Pit. You guys are the best!!

Noranoranora,

You will look better!!!!

We can never go back and who would really want to, (unless by some miracle we could take all our knowledge with us)? I was thin several times in the past , but I didn't really appreciate what that meant. I may never be a size 3 (yes, I wore a 3 as an adult ), but the woman I am becoming is the kind of woman I think I'd like to know and maybe even be best friends with! Isn't that what it's really all about?

Noranoranora, Keep the picture for inspiration...but let your mind invision someone even more beautiful, thin, healthy and happy...You deserve it!

Yours in future thindom,
MB

Nora! You are very welcome!

MB, you Wrote "...but the woman I am becoming is the kind of woman that I think I'd like to know and maybe even become best friends with!"

I just love that! Thanks for sharing it and I am going to tuck it into a corner of my brain and think of it often!

peach

I have never NEVER been that thin even as a child. That is just not even imaginable to me!

MB is right, you will look even better. (MB, you are just overflowing with terrific ideas today, by the way!) I too loved that remark about being the kind of person I would like to be best friends with. I have been that bi*ch that I didn't even like, and I see myself in these young naive girls and just sigh. Older and definitely wiser!

Nora, keep your chin (or chins as is the case here) up and keep smiling that great smile, you will be wonderful!

Like the others that responded, MD, I will try to keep your suggestion about "the woman I am becoming" up at the front of my brain. What a powerful thought, thank you. I really can't go back again and I don't think I really want to. Except for this enormous caboose I'm dragging around, I really love my life.


Sherrie, I quit smoking 10 months ago after a 33 year habit of a pack and a half a day. I feel so good, it's hard to describe. Not only did I kick that stinking habit right in the head (I love visuals), I smell better and I've saved around $3000 and I can breathe again. All the way down to the bottom of my lungs. I never wake up in the middle of the night to go have a smoke, I don't have to leave whatever I'm in the middle of to go outside for a smoke, my house smells nice. I wasted so many years wishing for thinness and smoke free-edness, now I only have to waste time wishing for thinness.

This is what I looked like last summer, I weigh about 20 pounds more now. *yikes*

Not really, but almost!

I am totally not into this whole deprivation thing! First I was losing weight and it was hard. Now I'm stopping smoking and it is HARD!!!!!! I eat instead of smoke, so guess all that hard work to lose those paltry few pounds is down the darn drain. I finally stepped on the scale today, because I haven't weighed in so long I have no idea what I started at, but it's almost as much as it was when I first started losing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am determined to stop this out of control eating at the end of next week (2 weeks quit) but how dang much weight will I have gained by then??????????????

At any rate, Nora, tips, tips, tips please???? How did you do it? Was it hard? Are you tempted still? (That is my biggest fear!) Thanks in advance!

Sherrie, I still want to smoke but it's not for the nicotine anymore, now it's just the going through the motions thing... I still dream about cigarettes and sometimes I smoke in my sleep and wake up feeling guilty. It's a really shitty addiction, there's no doubt about that. That's why it's so important to get off them now, no matter how much you gain. Just get off them and then focus on taking the weight off. If you can manage to not gain a whole lot more, there's that much less for you to lose. Go for a whole day on program, Sherrie. Make sure you drink the water (it really helps with the withdrawl symptoms as well) and go for that walk. While you're having this perfect day, pay attention to what you're doing. You're not smoking, you are drinking enough water, you are exercising and you are eating on program. You are doing it!!! You are loving yourself enough to take very good care of yourseelf!!! You go, girl!!!! :)))))

I think I'm too focused on the whole living without everything I love phase. I still have my health and if I want to hang onto it I better shape up (pun intended!) and get to it!

Thanks for your encouragement