Good Intentions!
So how many times in my life have I "started fresh" with a juicy blank page and a heart-full of good intentions? How many days in my life and my years? But that fresh new page, that blinking cursor on my laptop, that sweet hope in my heart----it nudges me to hop aboard the Good Intentions Train for my favorite destination, Healthy Slimmer Kathie, U.S.A.
So I turn a page in my WLJ (Weight Loss Journal), a chunky little spiral notebook which I began on the auspicious day after my Bariatric Bypass Surgery, April 23rd, 2005. THAT was quite a successful and exciting journey! Within the year, I swooshed down my ample bulk from an all-time high of 267 pounds to 160 pounds. (To be honest, I was probably 160 pounds for just a few hours!)
I was the center of attention in all my family and social "circles", at work, online, wherever I could smoothly present my wonderfully diminished body. It was heaven--for a while. All my medical numbers won the lottery--blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure--all just gorgeous!
I was that Belle of the Ball I always wanted to be. This photo, taken on Easter, April 2007, with my kids, shows the svelte me--captured in a happy slim state of mind AND body:
Well, the hunt for that photo had me rooting around unpacked boxes of photos in my closet, scanning the photo, only to find it among my "iPhoto" collection in my computer AND on Facebook.
(I'm the short, older skinny-ish person
in the middle of those gorgeous young men--my sons Jeff and Matt--
and their equally gorgeous young wives--Susan and Laura--left to right)
GRRRRRRR!!
Anyway, back to Blank Pages and Good Intentions--and an hour after I started this blog--I ask you all, dear readers, to send me inspiring thoughts of good cheer. I have a starting weight of 242, which is just plain awful. My winter jacket of oh-so-many years was very loose on me during my first few skinny winters. Now it bunches up alarmingly over my too-ample hippage....sigh...
So I reach out to my hope-filled blank pages, and start again. I have enjoyed many other losing journeys, but just never stayed very long at my destination......
OH WELL, ALL ABOARD THE GOOD INTENTIONS TRAIN!
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