Attempting a little perspective

Oct 11, 2010

OK I've allowed myself to get into the daily numbers and have lost sight of the bigger picture.  I updated my spreadsheet and added a weekly and a monthly chart and it has helped.  I'm still frustrated messing with the same few pounds, but I see now that the trend is really better than I realized.  I lost 26 pounds in my first month and I've lost an additional 18 pounds this month.  That's nothing to be ashamed of or be frustrated with.  

On another note, my husband and my 16YO daughter was stunned and proud to learn that I walked to and from the mailbox by myself without pain and have done that for a week.  In fact, I upped the ante a bit the last couple of days and made myself go down our cove and up and around the other cove before I would let myself check the mailbox (Ok so Sunday and today I just did the circuit without checking, but the same route).  My daughter is fairly certain I haven't walked that far without pain since she was born.   I have to hold that in front of myself and not the scale.  

I do wonder though as I've never had the crazy mood swings I hear about from estrogen dumping (and also still have 90% of my weight in my stomach) and I never had the ketosis symtpoms I've heard about.  Is that a good thing, bad thing, or just something to put off my radar?

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