10-13-09............Tuesday

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

Mother Theresa

Good Morning Sister W.W.F.F.,

So how was your Monday? I saw the above quote yesterday and immediately thought, ''Mother Theresa must of known some Weight Watchers members." :)

So many times when we have had a bad day of eating or not getting in our activity, it can spill over into the next day. That is normally what happens to me. It is human nature for us to try and fix where we messed up yesterday, even though we know we can't get yesterday back. So no real reason to begin working on tomorrow due to, well that is tomorrow. So all we have at this very moment is ''today."

If your eating and activity have been off, then look for some N.S.V.'s (Non Scale Victories). If you have not given away all your too big clothes, then maybe today get in that closet, and try on some of those items, and see how far you've come. Then, get rid of those items. As long as you have your closet full of bigger sizes, you still have a crutch, a way to say, ''well, if I do gain, at least I have something to wear."

I have two N.S.V.'S that I would like to share with you, one happened Saturday, the other just yesterday. On Saturday I was in a store, looking at some shirts, when a sales lady came up and offered to help. So we began chatting, and I asked her about the skirts I was looking at. She informed me, ''they are 100% cotton, so there will be some shrinkage when you wash them." So I asked for an XL in the shirt, she looks at me, and said, ''there will be some shrinkage, but not enough to make an XL fit you." I was a bit leery, but she told me, ''take the L ,and I think that will be too big when you wash and dry it, if it feels too small, bring it back and not only will I give you your money back, but I will give you the XL free of charge." So I'm in a win win situation. She was right, the Large is a bit big, but it is doable, and I did call her yesterday, and she even offered for me to bring it back and she would exchange it for a medium, I told her, ''no, this is fine, but I did want you to know how much I appreciated your talking me out of the XL." Getting into those smaller things are still a problem for my mind, but at least I just went for the XL and not the 1 or 2 X like I normally do.

Then yesterday when I was shopping at Whole Foods, one of the cashiers that I knew back when Wild Oats was still open, checked me out, and when I signed my check she said, ''I know you, but oh my you have lost a lot of weight." So we began to talk, (wasn't busy in there) and she said, ''I hate to ask, but have you been sick." I told her no. Her reply then was, ''I didn't think you had been due to you look so great, but you have lost so much weight." I walked out of the store walking just a little bit taller, and maybe a few inches off the ground.

We need our N.S.V.'s there are times that is all we have to get us through the day. So just remember, nothing you can do about yesterday, and its too early to begin working on tomorrow, today is the only thing we need to be focused on.....just getting through today.