By The Time

One of my favorite things to watch on TV are the weight loss transformation shows.  I love to see the end results.  You see them start so defeated, be chosen for the show, make major changes and eventually what they look like in the end.  It is so inspiring to see their transformations.  Some shows you watch for months to get to what they look like in the end.  Others you see one person’s year-long transformation in one night.

Each season when I start one of the shows that you watch for months to see the end result I think to myself “by the time they are at or near the end, I want to be at 'x' weight”.  How many seasons have started and ended now, and I hadn’t made those changes?

I will have friends announce their pregnancies, and I think “by the time their baby comes, I would like to have lost 'x' weight”.  And the baby comes, celebrates a birthday, etc…and I haven’t made any changes.

Well, at almost two weeks in, that has all changed!  I am making the positive changes I have said I wanted to.  I am eating healthier.  I am losing weight.  I am feeling better. Compared to the past though, I didn’t let one meal or one bad choice keep me from going back to it.  I didn’t throw in the towel just because I messed up. 

I noticed that when eating better, I actually am excited to weigh in the next day.  I want to see if what I did the day before made the scale move at all.  If it is the same, I still keep going.  I am not giving up.

Thank you so much for all of the support.  I really appreciate it.  I believe that is a lot of what is helping me get through and keep going. 

I will give a weight update in the next few days at some point.  I am down weight, but want to start consistently updating on a certain date and haven’t decided on a “Transformation Tuesday” or “Weigh-in Wednesday” yet.  Thoughts?