WIDRT - Sunday August 16.

[Guest guest]

I've never posted to the board yet, but here goes.

I had fun today. (Well, yesterday, but anywhoo)

It has been a long time since I truly had a relaxing day and had fun. And

yesterday I did it. Fun time with my children (in a bathing suit no less...),

fun time while I was doing chores, fun time while I ate my dinner, I even had

fun grocery shopping! It is the first time in the past few months that I can

really say I had a FUN day. And I was active! Swimming, Kayaking, Playing on

the Slip-N-Slide with the kids, Jumping off the raft, FUN in the sun! I was so

busy I didn't even have time to be all self concious in my bathing suit, or to

obsess about everything that went into my mouth. I just finished listening to

the Limiting Beliefs portions of the podcast (episode 25 - Limiting Belief that

Keeps us from Having Fun) and I realized that I never have fun anymore. I used

to be loads of fun! When my hubby and I met, we had a TON of FUN! Now it is

all work, responsibility, stress, and maybe if I'm lucky, a little bit of fun

sprinkled in amongst the hurry of life... So my goals this week were to work on

the fun aspect of my life and see how that affected my weight loss. And you

know what - I feel way better. I noticed that all day yesterday I ate

reasonably. I didn't binge at all - even though we had some chips with lunch -

I didn't eat the BAG of chips. Even though we had cookies after dinner - I

didn't eat 5 of them. I ate one. And it was good! And Fun! Maybe I'll try

this new Fun approach and see where it takes me. I started walking 2 weeks ago

and I've managed to make it up to 2 miles now in about 30 minutes. Since I

started walking, I notice that I feel better. I have more energy! And, get

ready for it... it's FUN. I like walking! I like listening to my podcast on

the IPOD while I'm walking. I even jogged a bit last week (I know...me,

jogging!).

Anywhoo, that is what I did right today for yesterday! Good luck today everyone

- if I can suggest anything it would be to try to have FUN today!

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