Comfortable New Yr to you all on this 4th day of 2022.
I’ve spent the previous couple of days cleansing, organizing, purging……dresser drawers, junk drawers, closets, the fridge/freezer and the pantry. Just about any house I encounter will get consideration of a superb cleansing and purging for the subsequent a number of days.
It occurs each January in preparation for a contemporary begin to the brand new 12 months. It’s all the time been therapeutic for me to bodily toss out the outdated and welcome within the new, whether or not which means sorting via my sock drawer or cleansing out the freezer.
I like contemporary begins. I like wanting forward. I like switching issues up.
I like change.
I’ve all the time welcomed change. I get pleasure from day dreaming of what I see for myself, then making a plan of how I’ll make it occur. Generally I’m profitable and typically I fail, however I all the time study one thing about myself alongside the best way. I hope I all the time preserve the will to study and develop, to rejoice my successes and settle for my failures as a part of the method of studying.
Might of 2021 was my 10 12 months anniversary of this weblog. I didn’t rejoice it. I let it go. I used to be feeling discouraged with myself on the time for not determining find out how to do a number of the issues that I had needed to do with the weblog to make it higher, greater. I let that anniversary go as a result of I used to be extra centered on what the weblog wasn’t as a substitute of specializing in what it was.
The weblog has been precisely what I needed it to be from the start and someway I missed that.
I got here up with the identify The Weight of my Weight with out a lot thought. My weight had all the time weighed heavy on my thoughts. I wanted to speak about it.
The tagline additionally got here fast to me….It’s a Heavy Topic, I’m Lightening it Up a Bit.
I needed to handle a heavy subject with humor.
My first submit was Might 9, 2011.
The Starting
That is day certainly one of my weblog. It has taken me about six weeks to determine find out how to do a weblog………most likely shouldn’t be admitting that? I hope by placing all of it on the market, I can attain my weight reduction purpose with slightly humor, and hopefully encourage others to do the identical. I plan to weblog in regards to the meals I eat, my excercise routine, my temper and the way it impacts my weight reduction, and recipes I’ve discovered that make the load loss journey and the life-style change a bit extra satisfying! I hope you’ll observe me!
Whereas occupied with what it had not develop into, (visions of detailed recipes with movies and find out how to’s and tens of millions and tens of millions of followers that allowed me to rent a workers to run the weblog and Mike and I to retire on an island) I did not see that it was precisely what I supposed or not it’s. A spot the place I shared my meals, my train, my temper and my weight reduction and hopefully inspired others in their very own well being journey.
I did that. I achieved what I got down to do. I reached my purpose.
Past that?
I constructed relationships. I by no means even anticipated that. I developed Pen-Buddies on the weblog! A few of these relationships at the moment are perpetually pals that I by no means would have met in any other case.
Not solely have I shared my very own well being journey, I’ve been in a position to share our rising household, the joy of being employed by WW, the foolish tasks I provide you with round the home, the dream of shopping for Effie and making her my very own and my most cancers analysis and the journey that adopted.
Now, “The Weight of my Weight” is not a “Heavy Topic” prefer it was 10 years in the past, 20 years in the past, 30 years in the past. Now my weight is solely a quantity that provides me info. I’ve been in a position to study that within the work that I’ve put into myself during the last 10 years.
Now my well being journey is about….
How I select to nourish my physique, transfer my physique, respect my physique and present my physique love.
It’s time to finish this chapter and start a brand new one.
Perhaps I’ll begin a brand new weblog as I enterprise out in Effie and face my fears and study new issues and meet fascinating folks.
Who is aware of what this new chapter could deliver.
Whether or not you’ve been right here for help by yourself well being journey, otherwise you felt a connection in your story and my story, otherwise you’ve caught round to see what shenanigans I’ve been as much as, I so respect you. I do know that taking the time to touch upon the weblog requires effort, and I can’t categorical how grateful I’m that so a lot of you took the time to do this and join with me. I used to be all the time excited to learn and reply to the feedback you left over these 10 years.
My candy buddy Diane stated to me…..”It’s a present to know when it’s time to maneuver on”.
It’s time to transfer on. That is my closing submit right here as I start a brand new chapter.
Thanks all a lot for following!
“love the life you reside, stay the life you like”
