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  • Comment by Pinalope }i{ on 5/31/07 7:12 pm
    Jill! I've been thinking about all day today! Anxious to get news on how you're doing. I hope all is well, I'm looking forward to hearing you tell us all about how you're feeling! welcome to the loser's bench! ~Linda~
  • Comment by KSKat on 5/30/07 8:43 pm
    Jill - Here's wishing you the best of everything in your new beginning! I know that everything will go well and you will do great! Kat
  • Comment by Jenn G. on 5/30/07 7:57 pm
    Jill - lots of luck tomorrow! Save some room for me on the losers bench - I'll be there with you in a few weeks! Jenn
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May 14, 2007
posted on 5/14/07 9:26 am
Thoughts for today.  While walking into work this morning, I saw someone I usually take the train in with. She looks like she has lost some weight.  She seemed narrower, and her butt looked smaller.  And I thought, she lost weight.  That's all.  Her body is a little smaller.  It's just weight.  It doesn't make her better, just a little smaller.

But for me, losing weight is so much more than losing weight.  It's so much more than a number or a size.  It's so much more than shrinking, or becoming smaller or more narrow.  It's LIFE.

For me, losing weight means getting my life back.  It means being able to do the things I can't do now.  Little things like cutting my own toenails, crossing my legs, wearing panty hose.  Bigger things like riding a bike, riding a horse, running around the block.  Lifesaving things like not having high blood sugar, high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

When people look at me, they will only see the physical me.  What I look like, and maybe even what I can do differently.  But they will not know the struggles I've gone through, the desperation, the depression, the rationalization.  They will not know that it has been life and death for me.  They will not see the giving up of food addiction.  

I suppose it is that way for the alcoholic.  No one knows by looking at him what he's been through, or where he's come from.


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