I just completed my first week of the new me, and I lost 7 pounds!!!!! Woohoo.

I'm so happy!!

I found my old blog and started keeping a diary every day. I'm not sure if I can link to it (yet or at all) but if any one would like to follow it, give me a shout and I'll share the link with you.

I hope that this great 1st week weight loss will be the motivator to keep me on track now for the rest of my life.

CONGRATULATIONS Ms.O!!!

The first week is always such a great rush of water weight release. Here's to a great second, third, fourth, etc...

Also wanted to invite you over to the POSITIVE UPLIFTING NOTIFICATION: ONE POSITIVE thing about today is Part Eleven:
It's a great place to toot your horn on all the POSITIVE things going on in your life during your journey to a healthier lifestyle. Just tell em' Learn sent ya!

T.T.F.N. ~ Learn

Thank you!

Yeah, I know about that water loss thing in the first week.... but I will bask in
the glory of half a stone off Plus it was my holiday weight gain so I'm glad it's off!

Am about to pop out to a BBQ with my family, but will take a look at the thread when I get home!

Congrats to you MrsOrange and definately check out the thread cause I have just recently started posting there and have made some great friends and love going on there and writing down my positives and you can go to the venting thread if you have some not so positives and the ladies will always be there to support you!

Keep Rockin'
Heather

Whoo-hoo! That's an awesome start.

Congratulations!

WOW That is such a GREAT start and a WONDERFUL motivation!! I like the idea of doing a blog with it. I may do that too. I'd love the link to yours!

Fantastic! Yay YOU!!!! That's an excellent start and is just the first of many happy posts, I'm sure.

I feel motivated this time around, I don't know what is different from all the other times I've tried to lose weight, but I'mma keep going!

When I get to 25 posts I'll be able to post my link!!

Mrs. O congrats and best of luck, you are off to a great start.

Way to go!!

Great loss and super great attitude!

Back in the pool today (haven't been for 2 weeks due to being on vacation and Aunt Flo paying her monthly visit )

I did one hour and 50 lengths Just keep swimming!

I haz a sad.... I put on 2lbs this week I feel like such a failure.

I've been exercising like crazy this week, watched and wrote down what I ate (i.e., followed the Slimming World plan), but my downfall was yesterday at a family meal for my cousin's birthday. I thought I was "good", yes I had a little piece of cake and ice cream, but come on body... give me a break!

This is where I always fall down, I put on a little weight, and feel like a big fat failure.

Hang in there, MrsOrange! I know how it feels to go "darn, I've ruined all my hard work, I might as well give up, I'll always be fat" but I try to think of it in terms of how I would respond to someone I love. If my sister tried to do something, and she was doing really well, but one day she messed up and came crying to me that she'd ruined all her hard work, I'd give her a big hug and tell her that it's only a failure if she doesn't learn from it. If she learns from it, it's just a mistake, and she can move on. So why shouldn't the same understanding and encouragement apply to me? The fact that you recognize the same mistake you have made in the past means you know it's just a mistake, and you have the power to learn from it.

I have a favourite quote, it's from Anne of Green Gables. Anne says "isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" and I remind myself of it all the time. Every time I realise my day could have gone better, I remember that tomorrow has no mistakes in it yet, and I have the power to keep it that way.

Hang in there! You can do it!