Being there...."there" a place in my mind of no return...no going back to the old way... That's one way I describe it. I remember hearing other girlfriends with weight issues talk about not being there yet. They were not at the place where they could successfully lose weight. Well...I now know what being "there"feels like. Im there and I want to stay there. I set realistic goals for myself. Ofcourse I'm hoping/thinking about later on...tummy tucks etc lol but I also understand that I need to stay there for that to happen...and I intend to.
Since January 6th I have been giving myself small attainable goals...clocking my weight loss at every 5lbs...walking down the street and back (1.6km) then walking to Vee's and back (2km) then to the miniature horses and back lol (3.5km) and finally to the end of the road and back (5km).
Then Veronica and her dogs showed me the bog and ever since It has been part of my daily walk. I love the bog...the sounds and the aliveness of it all. In the Winter I was seeing deer and rabbits. In early Spring it was ducks and geese and some muskrats...but yesterday..... the sound was right out of a Walt Disney movie! At first Frank and I thought it was a tractor...then he said it's impossible..it's a swamp. We stopped and listened for a while and finally figured out the sound..it was bullfrogs and frogs and birds and beavers...everybody was busy at work building, remodeling, renovating...the works! lol.
In the bog there's a farmer's road that leads out onto the County road. That has been a goal I have been training for...to hopefully go up the dirt road to the County Rd back to our Road.....I had May/June in mind but yesterday Frank and I decided on a whim to just do it! and we did!!! I was so proud of myself. 12km!! in one shot! Lately I've been doing 10km a day but spliting it up in two walks of 5km each.
I do know that Im going to have to invest into new sneakers. The ones I have now are fabulous but are getting tired.
So now my new goal is instead of following the county road back to our concession, I will cut through the back onto concession 5 and go down the side road onto ours. This should easily add another 2km to the 12km. WOW...Im amazing myself. I wasn't even out of breath! This is awesome. All this walking has added up.
I have been reading Dr. Oz's YOU on a Diet. It's an awakening. It has helped me make better choices...actually it has helped me make the right choices. He explains the inner workings of our body so incredibly that, being a visual person, I can see everything unfolding in front of my eyes lol....guts and all.....or I should rephrase that to fat and all.
I'm still waiting to meet with the dietician....so in the meantime I'm winging it with Dr. Oz's help lol.
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