The most important part of the weight loss journey is the WW meeting and facing the scale each week.  It does a lot to keep you honest and if things didn’t work out that week, drive to refocus.  Just a little about my journey.. I gained over 50 lbs in the last 7 years when I closed a business I loved.  For four years I struggled emotionally as I watched my mother suffer congestive heart failure and dementia.  It was a slow goodbye with lots of  pain along the way.  Three years ago she passed on and I can only describe the loss as pure heartache.  After talking to others, I believe that losing a same sex parent is extremely difficult.  Since my father died when I was just 13, the loss of my mother meant the loss of a role in my life as someone’s child. It’s now been over three years of mourning and I am ready to move onto a healthy and vibrant life!

I had great success with Weight Watchers from April to August, when I stalled by losing and gaining the same 2lbs over and over.  In September I did a complete refocus and commitment when my birthday came around and at 47 had to switch from mid 40’s to late 40’s.  A clear distinction in my mind and motivating factor to the last three weeks of kicking up the exercise.  I am going on the treadmill and I have to be honest I dreaded it.  When I first began I dragged myself each day. At week 3, I am craving it and pushing myself to go faster and longer.  This week I moved from 30 minutes to 45 minutes twice a day.  I listen to inspirational music by Fred Bogert  and feel like these workouts have become a spiritual,meditative time. Having that twice a day has had an amazing result and I am more energized, alive and inspired than I have been in 7 years.

I ate right an exercised like a woman on a mission and was looking forward to facing the scale this morning…. Well, wouldn’t you know it, I woke up with severe menstrual cramping and bloating.  The scale showed that I stayed the same.  It was a little hard to swallow, when my friend who drank wine this week and backed off the exercise lost 1.2 lbs.  Since, I know there was nothing for me to change, I will just keep on and see what the scale says next week.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bogert –  You can take a listen to samples of the songs from the album that I use for my workouts and filling my spirit!

I would like to say the I still shared a celebration at my meeting and told them that I knew going into this journey that my success would depend on getting the MIND, BODY, SPIRIT all in alignment.  I thought I had done an ok job of that and really celebrated as my new friend from WW bloomed from getting all those in order.  I now realized that I didn’t have that right.  This week as I pushed my body and listened to the inspirational music, I felt my spirit soar.  Even my mind changed from, “I am doing Weight Watcher’s for my health”( a great reason that got me to the halfway point, but had lost momentum), to the new motivation of “I will not allow my mother’s legacy to be my weight gain!”  I know that  new mantra will carry me home to the goal weight.   Sharing my journey impacted so many people in the room and I proud of myself for doing so.  These meetings really do add the the success of it’s members.

8 WEEKS UNTIL THANKSGIVING!  HOW MUCH CAN I LOSE BY THEN????

Anyone else motivated to lose weight?  What keeps you going?