Necessary Mutilation

Weight: 217.1 lbs.

I am thankful for a wonderful quote I read yesterday, as it is helping adjust my attitude regarding my weight gain and the last few weeks of excess. I need to remember that this is not a marathon or a race to see how quickly I can lose and then celebrate my win. This is a lifestyle and a forever mission of balance, wellness, endeavor and as is true with everything in life, successes and failures. No one is perfect at anything, and being human, we all have ups and downs and trials and errors. How I do today is therefore not an indictment of how I must do hereafter, and every day and every moment I have the power amd ability to change course and to determine a different outcome. I am heartened by this!

Here’s the quote: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”  (Sir Winston Churchill)

Thanks - I needed this today especially. Yesterday was a day of ups and downs at the casino as well…winning, losing, winning, losing. Just like my battle with weight. Sometimes I wonder why I make my own life more difficult than I need to, by putting myself in positions that can be ultimately disheartening or result in the bad kind of losing (or the bad kind of gaining ( if it is weight that we are referring to). In the scheme of things and of risk benefit analysis, I am not sure that the risks I take are worth it…yet knowing me, I will likely continue to push the envelope as long as I am alive. I think that this is why this quote resonates with me….

And finally, here is another quote, one that I penned for today: “The good and the bad news is that vacation is over and its time to return to work and a more structured lifestyle. For this, I am both chagrined and relieved.” (Well, except for New Years, anyway!)   Sigh….