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June 29, 2005

We’re Officially a Team!

Occasionally I post on The Biggest Loser message board. It was that show, after all, which inspired me to lose weight. The show aired around the time I was the heaviest I’d ever been in my whole life. I fantasized about being on the show and went to the auditions for season 2. We arrived an hour, or so, after they started and when I saw the mile long line of hopeful contestants I told my husband to keep driving. We never even slowed down and I have never looked back. I couldn’t be happier.

I often mention this site on the board. The other day I saw this post in a thread that I was involved in.

Josiej: (I'd put Hopeful's little team up against Bob or Jillian's any day of the week.)

I was stoked! We are definitely a team and we’re doing damn good. Every one of us weighs less than when we started. And may I remind you of our collective loss.

Our goal as a team is simply to keep each other motivated. There is no competition and we shouldn’t worry about any setbacks or temporary gains, except to keep them temporary. We’re on a long term mission and while we’re enjoying the rest of our lives at our healthy weight the extra week or two it took us to get there will only amount to a blip in time.

I have 25 pounds in the bag and I’m feeling great. (FYI, I really only started getting excited after the first 10 and that’s when my motivation started snowballing.) I am setting out to lose about 80 pounds and am only about a third of the way there but I’m feeling awesome already. So there are rewards along the way. We don’t even need to be close to our goal weight to feel great and reap the rewards.

I started this almost 4 months ago in hopes to be significantly smaller by the time my family went on vacation to the Jersey shore. I had figured that I could lose 10 pounds per month, but that didn’t happen. In the past that would have discouraged me. Not this time, though. I’ve never been happier to have lost 25 pounds. If I had let that discourage me and sabotage my efforts I wouldn’t even be 186. That would suck.

Motto: Don’t get discouraged, even at a slow rate or a just few pounds lost we are better off than we were!

Now, while I’m basking in the sun on the beach, I will be a lot less likely to get harpooned. I can relax, enjoy myself, and hope to catch a glimpse of Bon Jovi or The Boss.

Posted by hopeful @ June 29, 2005 12:54 PM