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Hope everyone had a happy 4th of July. Yesterday I had a true "short" term experience of how hard loosing weight is. We had went to a state park for a cookout and we also took out a row boat into the lake.
Last year we went to another park and I was over the weight limit almost all by myself... I was 417 at that point. So I let DH and my daughter(for her first time) go out on the boat all alone while I stayed back and watched/cried/you know... so anyways atleast I am down this year... 361-362ish..
So we get the row boat and DH gets in first with oldest DD, then I'm have littlest DD hand and I go to get in, loose my balance, boat moves away from dock and I manage to fall on my butt on the dock.. safe landing atleast. So anyways to my point...
Dh rowed us out, but he has a very bad shoulder problem so I rowed us in. Now I stayed rowing for about what felt like forever, and I was still in the same spot on the water or drifted out a little farther then we were...
Then I FOCUSED really hard and had him help guide me (you sit with your back to the direction you are going for anyone who doesn't know). I would start going good and feel I'm getting somewhere only to look and realize I'm still beside the same landmark. So I would try again, and again, until finally I started getting somewhere... however, every time I looked I still felt in the same spot. You know looking at the same tree just from a different angle. Then I realized okay I'm getting somewhere only for me to get confussed and would move the left paddle instead of the right and start to turn again sideways... I mean it took so much consitration just to get the boat straight and keep it that way. The smallest moment of loosing focus and I was headed in the wrong way again... Finally I did make it back and when I was sitting out in the middle of the water surrounded by beauty of this earth so much reflection happened.
So many times I fail b/c I'm not patient enough with myself. I feel the scale doesn't move fast enough, I feel that even if I loose that pound every week or 2 weeks, that I'm not going to make it, I'm never going to get there, but really that is not the truth. There will always be so many different bumps and turns along the way, but if you just remember again what you are doing and why you will find yourself back on track again. It is that CONSTANT effort that will make a difference. Even if you don't make goal today, tomorrow, next month, or for some of us even next year, just knowing and realizing every day that me make that effort, every day that we stay focused and committed, then we will make it there and we will succeed.
Just wanted to share.
Last year we went to another park and I was over the weight limit almost all by myself... I was 417 at that point. So I let DH and my daughter(for her first time) go out on the boat all alone while I stayed back and watched/cried/you know... so anyways atleast I am down this year... 361-362ish..
So we get the row boat and DH gets in first with oldest DD, then I'm have littlest DD hand and I go to get in, loose my balance, boat moves away from dock and I manage to fall on my butt on the dock.. safe landing atleast. So anyways to my point...
Dh rowed us out, but he has a very bad shoulder problem so I rowed us in. Now I stayed rowing for about what felt like forever, and I was still in the same spot on the water or drifted out a little farther then we were...
Then I FOCUSED really hard and had him help guide me (you sit with your back to the direction you are going for anyone who doesn't know). I would start going good and feel I'm getting somewhere only to look and realize I'm still beside the same landmark. So I would try again, and again, until finally I started getting somewhere... however, every time I looked I still felt in the same spot. You know looking at the same tree just from a different angle. Then I realized okay I'm getting somewhere only for me to get confussed and would move the left paddle instead of the right and start to turn again sideways... I mean it took so much consitration just to get the boat straight and keep it that way. The smallest moment of loosing focus and I was headed in the wrong way again... Finally I did make it back and when I was sitting out in the middle of the water surrounded by beauty of this earth so much reflection happened.
So many times I fail b/c I'm not patient enough with myself. I feel the scale doesn't move fast enough, I feel that even if I loose that pound every week or 2 weeks, that I'm not going to make it, I'm never going to get there, but really that is not the truth. There will always be so many different bumps and turns along the way, but if you just remember again what you are doing and why you will find yourself back on track again. It is that CONSTANT effort that will make a difference. Even if you don't make goal today, tomorrow, next month, or for some of us even next year, just knowing and realizing every day that me make that effort, every day that we stay focused and committed, then we will make it there and we will succeed.
Just wanted to share.
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