Milestones

Dear Wednesday,
You used to be my friend. You were the halfway point to the weekend. You were an 'easy' day. Now I stress about you, almost to the point of fear sometimes. You see, on a Wednesday in the not so distant past you became "Doom Day" aka Weigh (& Measure) Day for Ryan & I. So now I awaken on Wednesday mornings & really don't know what to expect from you. Will things be good? Bad? The same?? Oh, if only I knew ahead of time! I so hope that at some point, very soon, all my Wednesdays will return to being good days. Please conspire with my brain to continue to make good choices & with my scale to show lower numbers. For now I will continue to stress, worry & at times fear you. I do want to thank you for being kind today & taking a bit of pity on us. Please continue to do so. I know that at some point you'll return to being one of the better days in our week!
Sincerely,
Me

Today I found out I lost 3 more pounds. I'm now down to 204. 5 more pounds & I'll be under 200 for the first time in YEARS. I was stuck at 245 for so long & never moved. Then when I finally did a year & a half ago it was to move UP to 249. Now being this close to being out of the 200's is such a strange feeling. Ryan lost a pound, down to 250. Not sure if it's the end of the plateau for him or not but a pound lost is still a loss. He feels like he's not doing well but pointed out his belt to me tonight. When he first bought it he had to use the 2nd set of holes. Now he's using like the 9th set. Tell me that's not progress! I can see it in him even if he can't & no matter what the scale says or the tape shows, I can see changes in his body. He says he can see them in me too, I unfortunately cannot. No matter what, we both have milestones that are coming within our grasp. Getting under 200 for me, breaking out of the plateau he's been in for over 3 weeks for him. Hopefully both will happen soon & we can look forward to our next set of milestones, whatever they may be.

Another milestone I hit this past week was that I WALKED 3 MILES! Took me 57 minutes to do it but I did it AND, I walked all of mile 2 at 3.5, which is my fastest speed to date. The rest was walked at 3.4. I was so excited & proud! 3 miles is something I honestly never thought I could do. I know to some people this may sound lame & they're like "Really? Is she really that stoked about 3 miles??", but YES, I am! I was the type of person who used to sit in my recliner & think that people who walked, jogged or ran 1 or 2 miles a day were nuts & that I could never do that. The idea of 1 mile exhausted me, let alone the idea of 2 or more! Now I'm doing 2 every day I walk & pushing to 3! Huge acomplishment for me!
I'm not competing with anyone but me at this point. In the end I'm the only one I'm really ever going to be competing against since there will always be someone out there that can out do me. As long as I'm doing my best & improving my times, distances & being able to increase my intensity & survive, then I'm successful & consider myself a winner! 

"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
--Norman Vincent Peale

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."--William James