"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
Steve Prefontaine (1951-1975) American Olympic runner
Good Morning Sister W.W.F.F.,
I just want it to be known that being at yesterday's meeting and getting back on track was/is wonderful. Taking a break is fine, but getting back to ones normal routine....well, there is a lot to be said for that as well.
Something to think about today. This time last year where were you in your weight loss journey? Where are you in that same journey today. Are we giving it our best? Yesterday I began thinking back to this time last year. I was recovering from a knee replacement, in September of last year we got hit with the Hurricane. So many things have happened, and for some of us, some have been good, and some have been sad things. But, today we are going to focus on ''the gift'' we are giving ourselves. The gift of good health. It is wonderful to be a smaller size, not having my thighs rubbing together, I can actually wear cords now without sounding like my own ''one man band.'' Come on some of you know what I'm talking about. So I'm a smaller size, the scale has a smaller number, but the, and pardon the pun, icing on the cake is, my heart is getting much less of a workout, as well as my other internal organs, from not being surrounded by all that blubber. We all want to look better, but for me I have been amazed at how much better I actually feel. Less joint pain, I can go up and downs stairs without thinking, ''I may pass out". The steering wheel on the van does not rub my belly anymore, and at times I have to ask ''when did that happen? How did that happen?" The when it happened is not as important to me as the ''how''. This month will mark 4 or 5 years for me on Weight Watchers, and no I did not always give it my best. At times I tried to convince myself I was giving it my best, but deep down, I knew what was really the truth. Have I missed out on anything by not getting to my goal earlier? I don't think I have. As I have said before, I don't think I would have been ready for goal any earlier. We all have our own time table, we all have our own problems that seem to be standing in our way of doing the best we can. Maybe today is the day each of us need to take a stand and promise ourselves ''to give it our best."
We are into the time for comfort foods, so find ways of making that food you love more points friendly. This month's cooking light magazine has some great recipes, as well as the new Weight Watchers magazine. I would also like to encourage each of you if you do have a recipe that you like please share it with the rest of us.
We are works in progress. I'm never going to look like a movie star, why should I, there is no movie star that looks like me, ha. This week I am working hard to do the best I can to lose the weight I gained while I was gone. I can and will do it, no the five plus pounds won't be gone by next week, but they will be in the process of leaving. All that is required is that, ''I do my best."
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