The Final Weigh-in - Get me your scale photos!
Doesn't it feel like we just started the BigSliceOff? This ending seems rather abrupt. In any case, get me your final weigh in numbers and scale photos by no later than Wednesday, please, so I can tally everything up for the last time.
We've had a couple of days with temperatures in the 90s, and yesterday, I braved the swimming pool with all three kids for the first time. Sadly, the suits I bought last year (aaaargh) still fit me, although I will say that my arms are thinner and more muscular, and I'm more firm all over. But still. That's just rude.
I'm digging into a whole pile of work around the house - rearranging rooms and carting out bags of unloved possessions. It seems like I manage to accumulate more of everything, no matter how I try. But I'm holding fast at 167 pounds, and that is a small miracle. Especially since I had to weigh myself at Target. My own scale gave my weight as 224 pounds, 57 pounds and 102 pounds on three different attempts, thirty seconds apart. Must have been a shapeshifting kind of day. Or a whacked scale day.
I'm determined not to become discouraged. Standing at the bathroom mirror, tugging on my swimsuit and sighing, it would have been easy to give up. I had so many different plans for the start of this summer - plans that included the return of feeling comfortable in cute sundresses and confident in swimwear. Instead, I find that I've made a tiny amount of progress, and it is still a daily struggle to make the right choices for my health.
Bah!
I'm shaking the dust out of my motivation, and after I send it to the cleaners, I'm going to put it back on, fresh and clean and pressed. It might need to get a new one, in this season's colors, but I'm not going to pull the muumuu out of the closet. In fact, I'm going to donate that sad old attitude along with the clothes that I've been holding onto out of habit.
Wow, that was a really weird concept, poorly explored. But I think you all get the point. People, I'm tired of being a lousy dieter/life-changer/whatever. I need to refresh my goals, and recharge my motivation.
Stay tuned!
Comments
What a coincidence, I parted with a mountain of clothes yesterday. They were just taking up too much space. i feel better now that they're gone. You are not a louser dieter - you could easily have put on 30lbs since last year, but you didn't. Go work that swimsuit.
Posted by: Healthy Mummy | May 8, 2007 11:36 PM
I'm with you on the lack of motivation. I'm tired of seeing toned bodies THAT AREN'T MINE! But then I schlep around and don't exercise and then WONDER why I'm not any toner....hmmmm. Motivate me PLEASE!
Posted by: MJ | May 9, 2007 8:25 AM