P.S. Keep it simple! Love, Stupid
Height 5' 7" High Wt 268 / Consult Wt 246 / Surgery Wt 241 / Goal Wt 150 / Happy place 135-137 / Current Wt 143
Tracker starts at consult weight
In maintenance since December 2011.
No, no, no, Kathy! Let's see when I'm a couple of years out! I've got a ways to go to earn those stripes!
ETA: Plus, you know, it's all that program stuff, not me. I feel like all that stuff I know from program floods back in now that I'm not frickin' starving all the time. Nothing ever taught me more about my screwed up food issues than OA.
:) Happy
53 yrs old, 5'6" HW: 293 ConsW: 273 SW: 263 CW: 206 
One Day at a Time
February 25, 2012
~ STARTING OVER ~
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Vitality shows not only in the ability
to persist, but in the ability to start
over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Before coming into this program I was,
and probably still am to a certain
extent, a perfectionist, so one of the
things I really struggled with is being
able make mistakes without feeling bad
about myself. So when I came into the
program, I decided that I was going to
do this program perfectly, and proceeded
to do just that. I followed a meal plan,
lost weight and worked the steps, and I
really thought I had it made. But I
hadn't counted on the fact that this is
a disease, and it is both cunning,
baffling and powerful. So when I had my
first slip, I was devastated and felt a
real failure.
Fortunately for me, with the help of
many loving sponsors over the years, I
have realised that I am not a failure if
I slip, but I am only one if I fail to
get up. This program has enabled me to
learn that when I make a mistake, I am
not that mistake, and that all I need to
do is to pick myself up and start
over. In the old days if I failed at a
diet, I would never have been able to
pick myself up so soon, and it would
always be an excuse to carry on eating
and start the diet again on Monday. Now
I know that my abstinence can even start
at the end of the day, rather than
waiting till tomorrow, next week or even
next month. I am slowly starting to let
go of the guilt I feel when I slip, and
am also learning to love myself even
when I do flounder, because with the
love and support I am given in this
program, I know I can always start over.
ONE DAY AT A TIME . . .
I will remember that I can start afresh
any time I like, and don't need to feel
as if I have failed.
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✿ L♦O♦V♦E ✿ & ✿ P♦E♦A♦C♦E ✿ღ ✿ & F♦R♦I♦E♦N♦D♦S ✿ ღ
"Keeping The Faith!" "Slim by Summer!"
HW: 250 - SW: 241 - CW: 154.7- GW: 140
1 month: 22 pounds (216) 2 months: 12.2 pounds (203.8) 3 months: 10.6 (193.2)
4 months: 9.7 lbs (183.5) 5 Months: 6 pounds (177.5 ) 6 Months: 12 lbs ( 165.5)
7 Months 7.1 lbs (158.4) 8 Months +1.6 pounds(159.8) 9 Months 2.7 pounds (157.1)
10 Months 8.1 lbs (149) 11 months +2 pounds ( 151) 1 YEAR!!! 2.6 pounds (148.4)
Hit "One-derland April 9th, 2011 (199.7)
"Half-Way Goal" April 25th, 2011 (194.8)
"Happyland 80`s" May 14, 2011 (189.6)
"Groovyland 70`s" June 20th 2011 (179.9)
" HippyDippyland 60's" July 16th (169.8)
" CQQL-land 50`s" August 25th ( 159.8)
"Normal BMI" 24.8 October 21st, 2011 (154.5) I am 5`6
"AWESOME-land 40's" Dec 1st 2011 (149)
"Century Club 100 Pounds" Dec 1st 2011 (149)
' ONE YEAR SURGIVERSARY!!!"
Two Year Surgiversary!!!"
✿ L♦O♦V♦E ✿ & ✿ P♦E♦A♦C♦E ✿ღ ✿ & F♦R♦I♦E♦N♦D♦S ✿ ღ
"Keeping The Faith!" "Slim by Summer!"
HW: 250 - SW: 241 - CW: 154.7- GW: 140
1 month: 22 pounds (216) 2 months: 12.2 pounds (203.8) 3 months: 10.6 (193.2)
4 months: 9.7 lbs (183.5) 5 Months: 6 pounds (177.5 ) 6 Months: 12 lbs ( 165.5)
7 Months 7.1 lbs (158.4) 8 Months +1.6 pounds(159.8) 9 Months 2.7 pounds (157.1)
10 Months 8.1 lbs (149) 11 months +2 pounds ( 151) 1 YEAR!!! 2.6 pounds (148.4)
Hit "One-derland April 9th, 2011 (199.7)
"Half-Way Goal" April 25th, 2011 (194.8)
"Happyland 80`s" May 14, 2011 (189.6)
"Groovyland 70`s" June 20th 2011 (179.9)
" HippyDippyland 60's" July 16th (169.8)
" CQQL-land 50`s" August 25th ( 159.8)
"Normal BMI" 24.8 October 21st, 2011 (154.5) I am 5`6
"AWESOME-land 40's" Dec 1st 2011 (149)
"Century Club 100 Pounds" Dec 1st 2011 (149)
' ONE YEAR SURGIVERSARY!!!"
Two Year Surgiversary!!!"
