The Momentum Continues!

I keep chugging along, and although it was a little bit of a tough weekend (They always are), I actually come out of it pretty good. I certainly got some good exercise, that is for sure. I don't know what it is, and I am not saying that trying to live healthy and eat right isn't hard work, it is, but somehow I am doing a really great job at keeping my momentum.

I feel so good and again, although I have not yet lost a substantial amount of weight, just eating good makes me feel good in so many ways. I think also, that as the warm weather approaches, this helps me to keep my motivation. I find the winter months to be very hard because of the cold and how it is dark by 5pm. But now that DLS is here, it's not getting dark until 7:30 (well, that is when the sun is setting, so it's dark a little longer after that) and the extended day light really gives me energy.

But with the warm weather rolling in, it makes me want to be active and I can't be as active as I would like to be in with the current state of my body, so I keep the motivation to get this weight off so I can go back to living the life I LOVE so very much. Another thing that is keeping me motivated is that my Photography club is talking about taking a trip to the mountains to photograph some of North Carolina's beautiful waterfalls that they are famous for. I have yet to see a waterfall in NC, but I would love to very much.

But here is the catch.........Once we get there, we have to hike 5 or 6 miles to get to it. That is where I get sad and disappointed. So, I just walked 5 miles for the first time since my AT surgery, but it was slow paced, with lot's of rests and it was on a paved path. I don't think I am up for a 5 or 6 mile hike (Rough terrain in the mountains) with a group of mostly fit people. I just don't think I could keep up. So, sadly, I will miss this trip, but I know they will go again, possibly in the fall. What better motivation than that? That gives me the whole spring and summer to work hard, get into shape and get this AT working back at it's full capacity.

There have been so many times over the past 10-15 years that I have tried to lose weight and I have failed and just ended up gaining more and more each time. I keep trying and I keep failing, but this time is different......I don't know how or why, but I just know it is. I guess I am tired of existing instead of living. I guess I am tired of being content not doing all the things in my life I love to do.

I have an opportunity to play on two different softball teams this spring and guess what? I had to say no to both. I am not physically there. I am just sick and tired of this and I am ready to change my life. As the old Chinese proverb goes: "Fall down 7 times, get up 8." And that is exactly what I am going to do. If I give up because I have failed, that will ensure that I never succeed. But if I keep trying each time I fail, eventually I will succeed, but I have to keep going, I have to keep pushing. I am getting there. I can feel it!!!!

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln