How was your week?--by Misty

Hey all!

I hope you are all doing well.  I have had so much to say this week, and now that it's my day to post, I have nothing to really say.

I have done pretty good this week.  But yesterday after I sent off a hello e-mail, suddenly I just wanted to eat and eat and eat.  I didn't.  But I wanted to.  But I didn't.  I want to eat tomorrow too.  But this is what I do right before a weigh-in.  It's sort of annoying.  Just sort of though.  :)

Since I know everyone, I don't think I need to do a bio, but I'll tell you all of my problems. ha ha ha.  Truly though, I have spent the last 18 months getting used to and learning to enjoy life while living in the Dominican Republic.  It's been a real adventure for our family, and we're doing pretty good.  We're enjoying life, and we are having a good time.  But I've definitely let my health slip.  In 18 months I've put on about 25 pounds.  That hasn't been a whole lot of fun.  But I've been reading that book I posted about earlier, and it's helped me to stop being so hard on myself.  I'm not happy that I've put on so much weight lately, but I can understand it and see why it happened.  And I feel more calm about it, which in turn is helping me to think logically about losing the weight and start moving forward.

I think it's time to start dreaming again.  What do I want out of life?  Who do I want to be?  I have the power to write my own story, and I'm going to.  I'm not going to sit on the couch and just let life tell me what's going to happen.  I feel good.  I feel hopeful.  And I think that is a good place to be.  And I've started to see the scale begin to nudge it's way back down in the last month, which is SUCH a good feeling.  We CAN do this.  We know what we need to do.  Now we just need to go ahead and do it.

Hope you all are having a great weekend!

Misty