As you all know by now, Wednesdays are my weigh in days. My mother and I talk every single day and without fail every Wednesday she asks "So how'd you do this morning?" And I LOVE THAT! It is so great to have someone to support me, who is genuinely interested in my weight loss journey, and who I can talk to about it as much and as long as I want!
I surely am enjoying your comments and reading all of your blogs. I check for new posts intermittently throughout the day and love reading about your successes, advice and even struggles. Thank God for the blogging community. I realized today, when I speak to my "real life" friends - I find myself babbling on and on about weight loss, nutrition, working out, etc. After my friend asks about how school is going, they ask if anything else is new and then I mention my diet. It seems like once I get started I can't stop! As I go further into details, I realize my friends who are obese have checked out of the conversation and I have to stop myself. They are probably on the other end like
I realized today that unintentionally I go into WAY more detail than necessary when someone is seeking a chatty, catch-up on things type of conversation. However, my friends who may only have a few pounds to lose or none at all seem to respond much more positively than those who are larger. They seem to be more interested in exactly what I am doing and their congratulations are more enthusiastic. I realize that with my more overweight friends, I need to back off and stop spewing my newly found love for fitness and weight loss. It is just like the happy newlywed who constantly goes on and on about how great married life is to their unhappy single friend who has been a bridesmaid 10 times! Sooooo, I've decided to limit my weight loss convo to those folk, as I do with school (who is really interested in the details of the pathology of the esophagus?) to avoid alienating them. I will still share because they after all are happy for me, but I won't go through the stories from
each blog I read,
every success story I come across
and my weekly grocery and meal plan as I had been doing! LOL. Hey, what can I say - I'm HOOKED!
Thank God for my mother and all of you......I can go on and on as much as I want!!!!
