Despite the difficult moments I've had lately I still feel very confident about what I'm doing. I can see how I might have trouble getting the exact weight/ look/body fat percentage I might end up wanting, but I feel very confident that I can keep losing weight, keep improving my fitness, and not end up where I started a year ago.
A lot of the people on here had lost weight before they joined. I had lost weight on previous occasions before I joined but I'd never been able to keep on with it like I have this time. And in the time immediately before I joined, I was not losing weight, I was eating badly. For me joining WLF was the off/on switch I was looking for.
I was looking for people who would allow me to believe I could do it, by showing how tremendously they could do it, like Randy and Mal.
I was looking for somewhere I could come to daily and make emotionally supportive connections - as I have done with all of you and many others. This has made a tremendous difference to me. As I've said recently, like many others, I have emotional eating as a challenge, emotional support is a real help with that.
I was also looking for somewhere (else), I could come and keep my hands busy typing, and my mind not wondering about food!
I got all that, and I got so much more. I hadn't really ever expected that I would be able to make frequent exercise a proper part of my life, and yet it is now. That has made such a difference to how I feel, and it was reading what other people here were doing that got me started, and that and people's comments helped me stay motivated and helped me stay on track. I have to say that I never think to myself, if Randy/Mal/Kim can do it I can... Nooooo I just think, if they can do that, then at least I can go (for a 20 minute walk... or whatever... )
To anyone who ever posted to me - thanks. It was strange, to say the least, to begin posting here a year ago, by explaining myself to who know who??? I doubt I would have kept writing without encouragement. Randy has probably forgotten the first post he made here and his encouragement to me to keep writing, but I haven't.
I miss people who've left. It's so wonderful when they come back again like Tyly.
Anyway, who would a thunk it? In the end the Berlin Wall did fall, and years later, less importantly to the world but more importantly to me, and with just as little foreknowledge of what it would look like, I finally lost weight.
Thanks heaps to the people I said thank you to above, and thanks to all the other enablers on here!!
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I'm nothing but proud of you for never surrendering !!
Take care - your still doing well
