Morning Ladies!
I hope everyone had a great weekend. I was busy busy busy....a wedding and a birthday party on Saturday and 2 football games on Sunday. Both my daughters cheer, but for *different* teams. So, I guess my life revolves around football for the next few months. The little kids are so cute in this game. One team is 3&4th graders and the other is 5th & 6th graders. The younger ones really don't have a clue what they are supposed to do! The coaches are right there ON the field with them. One little boy accidently caught the ball and he just looked at his coach like "now what?" It was hilarious! The coach, his teammates, and everyone on the sidelines were screaming "RUN!!!!!" Kinda like forest gump
The days are FINALLY starting to get fall like around here. We had our first 2 fires of the season this weekend. The evening temps got down to around 40! I LOVE FALL!! The trees are starting to turn, everything is crisp. It's awesome.
I lost track of points over the weekend... I ate well, didn't exercise that much, didn't drink enough water. BUT I did have some kind of major "breakthrough" with myself about this what, 6 month plateau--feels like a year since I really lost any weight. I finally admitted some pretty serious stuff to myself about my past, my goals, my future dreams. Stuff I had been cramming down inside me for YEARS with food. It has been bubbling for a long time, trying to get out....My theory is that the first 50 pounds I lost got me closer to those "things" down inside me than I felt comfortable with. So, subconsciously I didn't want to lose any more weight because then those things might escape. The weight was keeping things inside me under control. I don't know, maybe it's all just psycho-babble. But the more I thought about it this weekend, something inside me just kept saying "yes. Yes!"
So, what do I do now? I guess I just have to keep dealing with things as they bubble up and then let them go. I let a cubic butt-load of things go this weekend! I'm hoping that now that I've dealt with the stuff, I can get on with losing the weight. Because now I know that I don't need the "protective covering" of that last 40 pounds. I can just be myself now. I really really hope this will make things easier now....we'll see, won't we?
Hope I didn't bore you with all that. I needed to write it out, and maybe one of you is having a similar problem and it will help you, too.
Faye, your "date" sounded really fun! I need to get out alone with my hubby more. Actually, we're going to the Common Ground Fair this weekend alone! It's a fair run by the Maine Organic Farmers and Growers Association and it draws tens of thousands of people from all over the country. It's an 1800's style fair, with no electricity, no rides, no caffeine (though you can get coffee from vendors in the parking lot). It's basically a crunchy-granola, dirt lovin', tree-huggin' kinda fair.....not that those are bad things
There's lots of organic produce, music, dance, arts/crafts...all the kinds of things we love and our kids hate! I can't wait!
Sandy--Hope your blues are gone by now. Don't worry about your surgery, I'm sure you'll be fine! And the move is gonna happen whether you stress about it or not, so try not to.
Can't remember the what the rest of you are up to.....so everyone have a
day!
TTFN,
Julie