Be kind to everyone you meet. We're all fighting something.

 I'm rocking, I'm rocking...down FOUR pounds since I started! I'm not into the whole "weigh yourself every day" thing, but it's how loseit.com tracks weight loss, so I do it. I'm enjoying it NOW because I know there will be days the numbers don't move, or they move UP, not down.

As long as I LOG my food every day and start exercising, I'm good. The numbers will go down. But remember, my GOALS are ONE POUND at a time. So, if I only lose .25 of a pound or something, it's not as big a deal as if I were looking at the whole 100, which is really now the whole 94.

The thing that got me motivated this time around was how calm and confident all the people on the weight loss shows seemed to be. Once you get it together INSIDE, the outside changes to reflect that, so that was appealing.

I picked the photo above because it's how I feel some days—hanging on the edge, facing an onslaught of freezing rain (notice the snow on the rail?) all alone. We're all facing and fighting different things, and that's how many of us end up overweight. We self-medicate or self-soothe, with food.  Weight is emotional. It's not that hard to lose weight - you consume fewer calories than your body burns every day, and/or you burn more calories than you take in. The hard part is learning to deal with the emotional calories - the calories we consume because we're tired, angry, scared, stressed, anxious or insecure. Like an alcoholic will drink? We'll eat. People say you can "remove all alcohol from your life, but you still have to eat." And I call bull-pucky on that. It's not about removing the substance we abuse. It's about removing the emotional pain the substance soothes.

Anyway, I'm about to fall asleep, and am going back to bed now. I got up four hours earlier than usual and can't stay awake...so I'm taking a nap, then back to work!