A New Experience

You can do it, doll!! It just about taking steps. Small ones. Gradual ones. And sticking with it! The journey is long, and it will take some time, but time will go on regardless.

At least, this way, you will have your health. You will be adding years to your life instead of taking them away. I asked myself the other day,..."Is it really that I want to die? Do I really want to let go of all the wonderful things in my life? ...My answer was NO. Yet, I asked myself, then "Why did you let yourself sabotage yourself for so long?"
...My answer was.... It doesn't matter how long that was in the past, because that is NOW GONE. Today I am working for it. I am planting the seeds of today, so that I can reap the harvest of great health and long life tomorrow. :)

All I have to do is water it. Daily. And know, that it is happening. The same way the sprout doesn't come out of the soil over night, the change will not be evident on the body or the mind, until some time has gone by. Today is tomorrow. Tomorrow is today! :grouphug: I'm sending you warm wishes of INSPIRATION!! You can do this!! :D! It doesn't matter how long it takes. You are a success now for making a DECISION to take a step. Eating does not help it. Eating mindlessly hurts.
 
Alta818 said:
You can do it, doll!! It just about taking steps. Small ones. Gradual ones. And sticking with it! The journey is long, and it will take some time, but time will go on regardless.

At least, this way, you will have your health. You will be adding years to your life instead of taking them away. I asked myself the other day,..."Is it really that I want to die? Do I really want to let go of all the wonderful things in my life? ...My answer was NO. Yet, I asked myself, then "Why did you let yourself sabotage yourself for so long?"
...My answer was.... It doesn't matter how long that was in the past, because that is NOW GONE. Today I am working for it. I am planting the seeds of today, so that I can reap the harvest of great health and long life tomorrow. :)

All I have to do is water it. Daily. And know, that it is happening. The same way the sprout doesn't come out of the soil over night, the change will not be evident on the body or the mind, until some time has gone by. Today is tomorrow. Tomorrow is today! :grouphug: I'm sending you warm wishes of INSPIRATION!! You can do this!! :D! It doesn't matter how long it takes. You are a success now for making a DECISION to take a step. Eating does not help it. Eating mindlessly hurts.
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Wow I really needed that right now and somehow you knew just what to say :) What you said is really powerful and I appreciate you taking the time to write that. I may have to keep coming back to this post and reading it :D Thanks Alta!
 
I think things are resolving with my job situation but I'll post about it when I'm sure its finalized. Guess I'm being superstitious, lol. Plus I find it easier to manage my stress right now if I don't talk about it. I can breathe a sigh of relief and vent when it's over.
 
I hope that the work situation sorts itself out. It will be much easier for you once you are less stressed. Hang on in there and don't put on any weight. Once things are calmer you can get back to cooking your lovely meals and watching the scales go down.
 
Hey Jello,
I'm also sorry you've been stressed out and having a bad time :(

Sending you a big :grouphug:

I'm glad to read that you think it's getting resolved - fingers crossed for you mate.
Chin up hey, you're an awesome person xx

P.S. That photo had me LOL-ing bigtime! How gross is that!
 
That skank photo is so funny! How embarrassing! I hope your job stuff gets resolved. I'm thinking of making a change soon--I'm a careworker for disabled children but the quality of the other carers I work with can be shocking (or shockingly bad) and I'm thinking of trying to go private somewhere. Or just stick to night shifts where I don't have to work with anyone else! Anyway, good luck xxx
 
ecky said:
I hope that the work situation sorts itself out. It will be much easier for you once you are less stressed. Hang on in there and don't put on any weight. Once things are calmer you can get back to cooking your lovely meals and watching the scales go down.
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Thanks ecky, me too. Guess one way or other it'll be resolved soon.
 
Jess and Sunflower, thanks SO much for your support. Like I said either way this will be resolved by Monday...too bad I have to wait till then for answers.

Sunflower, I'm in the same field as you. The girls I was taking care of are in their 20s and 30s but are at a preteen level mentally. This field seems to attract some of the nastiest of people...there's no middle ground. Either people are there because they care or because they figured out it's easy money if they don't. I have paperwork to fill out to become a provider like you said and work for myself but I have to come up with the money for the background check and the process takes a few months but that's in my plans. For the last few years I've worked part time midnights, part time days to get my 40 hours and I tell you midnights is PEACEFUL! lol. I love working alone.
 
Hi Lisa, I hope the job situation is resolved in your favour on Monday. I admire people like you who really do care & can make a difference to people's lives. Good for you! Thanks for regularly visiting my diary & providing me with much welcome support. I love 'our' forum & the friendships we have formed. Hang in there Lisa. Don't let others drag you down, xoxo Cate
 
Sorry I've been MIA this last week guys. I got laid off my job on Monday. I can say though that while I loved my job initially, the company that took over 3yrs in made it a living nightmare. I took care of the same ladies for 6 years though so while being out from this company is a huge relief, I'm also having alot to process and it's hard. Definitely having my highs and lows emotionally, lol. I don't want to take this to a new job so just taking a breather and filing my unemployment. I'm going to focus on me and figure out what I want and move on to better things.
 
Hi sorry I missed your posts. I've been away from the forums for nearly 2 weeks. I'm sorry about the job situation. Take a bit of time to concentrate on yourself for a while. It's a shame that a lot of people are dissapearing from the forums lately. I really miss some of them and wish that they would come back. Don't let the upset in your life put you off of getting healthy.
 
So yea...laid off work....gotta say its kinda nice, lol. Once I got over the shock of it that is....and let last few years of stress from my previous job process and recede. It's been two weeks and I haven't done squat but barely keep my house goin and play video games. I didn't start out too bad food wise but last few days all I've done is eat lol. Gonna need to get my plan back on track here. Especially I have at least 4 months to just focus on me :)

So anyway, being as all my offline friends live in California and I'm in Ohio with my husband, I have quite a few online friends. I was talking to one of my best online friends on vent other day and we were sharing music. I swear its so easy to get sidetracked on youtube....look up one video and then keep clicking related stuff.

I gotta say I love Adam Lambert's new song "For Your Entertainment". It's hot...it makes me WANT to be thin so I can dress up all hot and sexy for my husband and put on that song lol. And Adam Lambert's pretty hot in it too, lol. I was watching an interview of him on one of those related links and was shocked as heck to find out he had a weight problem in high school....said he weighed 250lbs. Weirdly that made me feel better. I mean we're bombarded with beautiful people all day long in the media and everything else and we always want to BE them. Heck I swear some of these people got dropped off from another planet...like Fergie....what the heck? She looks THAT good...AND she can sing? How is THAT fair? lol But then you find out something like that and think hey....little weight loss and a bit of clean up....maybe I can look good too :)
 
Wow. hard to believe that he was ever overweight but as you say it gives hope to us all. I agree with you about it not being fair the people that are multi talented and on top of that they are hot!!!!!!
Try and get back on the wagon. You were doing so well and you have no excuses as you have the time to get healthy now.
That was you kick up the butt for the day and I'll be back to give you another one if you don't report in soon that you are back cooking healthy meals and going out for walks :D
One of the reasons I stick around on this site now that so many of my friends don't come here anymore is because I want to see the progress of my friends that are still here and to see your skinny 'after' photos :)
Good luck, I know you can do it. xx
 
As I posted before, Val you are a gem. I really appreciate your support and I see you as one of the few friends I have left on here.

But that being said I think it's time for me to say goodbye. This forum at one point was a huge support and I had a great network of weightloss buddies, people who I really enjoyed visiting their journals and sharing the journey with. Unfortunately so many have left. Now it seems more often than not I go to offer support and I'm met with vulgar things that make me just close my browser. My focus is on regaining my health, not who I hooked up with, drinking, partying etc. Maybe its just a younger crowd taking over and I can't relate....I don't know.

This last month has been very hard for me but I did post rather than go missing altogether even when my diet wasn't on track. The posts are few because I was disheartened to come and find my own post and nobody else this whole month but from one friend. Which brings me back to the point where I don't think I belong here anymore. You can't force friendships or connections, online or off. For any who happen to stop by here, good luck on your journey. Goodebye ~Lisa
 
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