Weigh in tonight. Another 3 pounds down! The scale at the gym is one of those "doctor style" scales where you slide the weights to try to get it to balance. I never thought I would get so much satisfaction from sliding a stupid weight further down.
Pretty much, I consider every day that I don't give up as a victory. But the first major intermediate goal is to get below 350. That's when I get to slide the BOTTOM weight as well as the top one! It will also put me safely below the point I was at last time I tried to lose weight. Or in other words… smaller than I've been in almost 10 years. I am now within 8.5 pounds of that golden moment.
I've been upping my speed on the treadmill a bit in the past couple of weeks. I'm glad to see that I can breathe at that level… it's a NSV (non-scale victory) that I enjoy noticing. However, my ankle is starting to hurt again at that higher speed. But it's not as bad as it was before, so I'm able to push through it and keep going at that speed. That's another NSV that I'm particularly proud of… that I am pushing through the pain. I haven't let it stop me.
The other day My Fitness Pal (MFP) asked a question on FB about what "rules" we've set for ourselves for healthy eating/exercising. You know things like always taking the stairs, or parking farther away in a parking lot. Stuff like that. I commented with, not a rule per se, but something I keep reminding myself of that helps me keep going with it. A few days later, MFP posted on their blog a compilation of those "rules"… either things that got repeated several times or ones they felt were particularly good ideas. I was somewhat surprised to see that my comment was included as one of their rules on the blog. They even attributed it to me. Will wonders never cease? Who would have guessed that I would be quoted on a fitness blog?
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