I have been trying to loose weight:

This is my thought for the day….

In the last 2-3 years I accidentally gained about 30 extra pounds.  Strange how that happens…….. right????  For the last six months I have been on a major mission to take it off and I have been trying really hard. It has been arduous to say the least.  This extra weight has suck itself to me like glue and does not want to shift.

My method is simple, I try to burn more calories than I take in….I spend 5 mornings per week at the gym. I am really trying to be careful about how much junk I throw down my throat.  It is simple math, but it is not always easy….sometimes all I want is a fried chicken sandwich and a milkyway bar, which makes the math more difficult to add up!

Today I hit a milestone weight, it was a goal weight that I had randomly picked out of the air.  It marks 22 pound weight loss and I am delighted with myself! I feel thinner and look better and am so much happier about myself. I can fit back into clothes that have been taunting me from the shelves of my closet. I feel so much healthier and fitter than I have felt in quite some time. I am absolutely chuffed to see this number on the scale……

But flash back to two years ago…….to a memory of me hitting that weight on the way up.  From the other side that number panicked me!!!! (Apparently not enough, I clearly kept on trucking up that scale with all the enthusiasm I could muster) I hated being that number when I was gaining weight. Yet here I am at that same number but this time on the way down and I am so happy.

I think that the moral of today’s story is that our perspective is everything.  If we change our angle of how we look at things, then we change the way we perceive events, occasions and happenings in our lives.  If we give these events a more positive spin, then life begins to look a little brighter and better and we can love our lives and ourselves a little bit more.

♥Criona