This is an off-the-cuff rant about some of the feelings I’ve been recently struggling with as I lose the weight. While things are going well, there are some small things that have been getting me down lately. In short, I am daunted by the fact that I actually have no idea what I will look like at a healthy body weight. Having never been a reasonable weight during my adult lifetime, I actually can’t comprehend what I will look like.
I’m also recognizing is that it is quite hard to keep up the momentum at times. Despite really making a great deal of progress on adopting healthy habits, I definitely feel how hard it is to keep going. It seems that losing the next 10lbs will always be as challenging as the last 10lbs. On top of all this, I’ve been struggling not to dwell on the opportunity costs of getting this big in the first place. It’s very hard to face the fact that my situation was, and still is quite dire.
Despite all this, I am confident I will continue to make progress. I’m continuing to lose a great deal of weight, and I’m keeping to my exercise schedule. I have a great deal to be thankful for and a lot of that is the kindness, support and encouragement I’ve received. As tough as this journey is, I do have a lot motivating me to keep moving forward.
Micro-dosing Failure now has a mascot!
Because I’m just a fantastic vector artist with Inkscape, I had a flurry of inspiration to make a mascot for the blog.
I’m thinking of naming him Blueberry.
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