Comments | mygoldenbuttons: Still fading away

mygoldenbuttons

Still fading away

May 30, 2006 17:00

It's some time since I posted and even longer since I mentioned that I am STILL losing weight. When I started, my goal was to lose 45Kg (99lb), which seemed an awfully long way away. Along the way, I have had great weeks, and not so great weeks. Just before Easter, I was ill for a couple of weeks, and had to take extra cortisone, and I actually ( Read more... )

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cosmicben May 30 2006, 09:19:43 UTC

Seventy-seven pounds is amazing! Congratulations, Jean. I hope your trip goes well.

mygoldenbuttons May 31 2006, 07:00:45 UTC

This is really a reply to both of you.
I thought about blushing modestly, "Shucks!", but I have come to realise that it really is quite an achievement. OK, not on a par with climbing Everest or flying to the moon, or saving lives or stuff like that, but when I was thin I never realised how difficult it could be to lose weight, especially a lot of weight. A lot of people say that they wish they could do it, and the truth is that wishing isn't what you need to do. If wishes were horses, poor men would ride! It does take a certain determination, and I'm very pleased with myself for sticking it out. I just hope I don't fall too heavily off the wagon this weekend, because I still have a little way to go.