aaahh…life continues to throw me curve balls. I know I will never face something I can’t handle – I just have to be patient, take a deep breath and continue to move forward despite my deepest desire to jump on Orbitz or Priceline and get the first ticket outta here!
Last night, I was cleaning the house & putting some things away and I ran across a CD that said “New York Pictures 2007.” Pictures from a trip I went on with my mom to New York City – we stayed in a beautiful hotel on 5th Avenue.
As I flipped through the pictures, I thought of you guys and thought ya’ll might like to see some of these…
cute and asked me to take his picture.
WOW….do you see what I see? I can barely believe it. That is me! Was me. I was that girl in the pictures.
When I look in the mirror today, I do not see a size 4/6 staring back at me. If you were to ask me to point to someone who looks like what I think I look like, chances are I would point to a size 14 or 16.
I CAN see a difference between where I am now and where I was in August of 2007. That’s the thing about pictures. You may not see the difference day by day or when you look in the mirror but the proof is in the pictures.
You just have to trust the process and remember that in the end, we AREN’T doing this JUST to lose weight but more importantly because of the healthy habits. The losing weight is just a side effect to us living a healthy life.
Life a healthy life. I need to keep reminding myself of that. This is not about the numbers on the scale.
This weekend is giving off a very busy signal. Seriously. BIZEE! Tonight, we are having friends over for a nice ol’ game of poker. Tomorrow I’m meeting my cuz, Kirsten for breakfast. Tomorrow evening, we are going out for dinner with our friends Toby & David. Sunday, Nicole is running her FIRST EVER marathon and I’m going to make every attempt to be there screaming and cheering and probably shedding a tear of happiness for her journey.
Sometime this weekend, I will find time to take a deep breath and remind myself I’m not chasing after some silly number on the scale, instead after really truly defining what healthy habits mean to me.
