1. Losing weight helps control diabetes (I REALLY hope I can get off insulin).
2. Losing weight can help prevent heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses.
3. Losing weight can give you a whole new wardrobe because you can suddenly wear clothes that have been in your closet for a long time.
4. Losing weight can boost your self-confidence and give you a feeling of accomplishment.
5. Losing weight can make you finally weigh less than your husband. (I’m not there yet, but I’m getting close.)
6. Losing weight can keep your body from continuing to move after you’ve stopped jumping up and down for joy.
7. Losing weight can make you able to shop longer…so, you know, you can buy more stuff.
8. Losing weight can make you able to tie your shoes straight instead of off to the side. (Does anyone understand what I mean here?)
9. Losing weight can make you feel more confident when you’re going to Las Vegas for the RNConvention in August and you’re going to meet the cover model (Jimmy Thomas) that’s been on many of your books. 🙂
10. Losing weight can make you want to start helping OTHER people be healthier because your excitement is contagious. Yay!
Those are just a few. Some of them are humorous and some are serious. But they are all relevant, at least in my case.
Stats for this week:
Beginning weight: 193
Today’s weight: 178.5
This week’s loss: 1.5 lbs.
Total loss: 14.5 lbs.
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I’m so proud of you! Well done!
Thank you, Kait! 🙂
Good job! It sounds like you’re doing this the right way, a little bit every week! And you’re approaching it for your health rather than just for vanity. Good signs that you can keep it off. 🙂
Thanks, Kat! I believe when you do this for health reasons, it IS easier to keep it off. Although, I’ve seen my mom do it, then lapse back into old habits. 😦 But I’m in this for the long haul. I can’t pretend that I don’t like the benefit of looking better, but that’s not nearly as important as it used to be.
Number 7 makes it worth it for me…
And you really are doing great.
More shopping. *grins*
Thanks, Claire, I plan on keeping it up. And I expect you to kick my butt if I don’t. LOL
Awesome, LL! And I totally know what you mean about tying your shoes off to the side. I started doing that while I pregnant and it took longer than it should have to go back to the other way!
Thanks, Susan. It’s nice to feel comfortable about bending down to tie your shoes. 🙂
Love the list 🙂 I can relate to many of those reasons. The biggest for me is being able to wear the clothes that are gathering dust in my closet. I guess I could clean them out and get new ones when I lose the weight. But, you know, then I’d lose that incentive…
Great progress Lauralynn!!
Thanks , Erika. I have clothes in many sizes in my closet. So I should have clothes as I’m going back down…just like I did going up. LOL.
Great job LL, way to keep sticking with it!!
Thanks, Chris!
14.5 lbs? That’s Fabulous!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!! You are doing awesome!!!!
Thank you, Juli!
Jimmy Thomas is good motivation. 🙂
He certainly is!
You are doing great!! I hope to take a page out of your book…
Thanks, Tiffany! It took a rude awakening for me to change. The key is to make the changes BEFORE something like that happens.