GIRLIEGODDESS
who would have thought....
Mar 02, 2010
so my mom, sister, bro-in-law & niece all came in for my birthday. we had a fabulous time. i made a few "not the best" choices but i'm not beating myself up b/c they could have been waaaaay worse...trust me. anywho, Sunday i signed up to do a Nature Walk with my support center here in Jacksonville and took my mom, niece & daughter with me. I figured that the girls wouldn't be able to walk the whole way, so we took 2 umbrella strollers (not the best idea for a nature walk). So the walk starts. there are tree roots, pine tree junk, etc on the ground, so trying to push a stroller was not the easiest. about 10 minutes into the walk, i no longer hear my mom right behind me. she had to stop to catch her breath. once we started again, she asked how much further. i knew that she wouldn't be able to finish the whole 1.5 miles. so we took a shortcut to a wheelchair accessible path that had a smooth ramp that made pushing the strollers a breeze. My mom kept apologizing to me for us only being able to do 3/4 of a mile instead of the whole 1.5. i told her not to feel bad & that i applauded her for supporting me.
anyway, my point is.....at 282.4 pounds, i found that i am healthier than my 118 pound mom. Who would have ever thought. I guess we get so caught up on the # the scale says that we forget to notice how hard we have worked the rest of ourselves. So if your reading this, take a second to applaud yourself for doin' whatcha gotta do!
cole
p.s. did you check out my updated photos.....yay me!