Peace

187.4 this morning.  A new low!

I worked from home this morning and being away from noisy coworkers helped a ton.  I got somewhat caught up and then worked out my finances for the rest of the month.  It looks like I'll be OK this month.  Those 2 things combined to make me feel pretty OK, and I'm feeling somewhat peaceful now.

Rather than focus on what I lack and what I'm NOT doing, I want to write a bit about what is going right in my life - specifically weight-and health-wise.

The last time I was 187 pounds was 15 years ago, I was married and it was 1997. The last time I was this healthy was 15 years ago.

I'm exactly in the middle of the Overweight range (per the BMI charts).  If I lose 17 more pounds, I'll be normal weight.  The last time I was normal weight was about 20 years ago and I was in my early 20s.  The cool thing is - I look good and feel good now!  I'm 89 pounds below my highest weight!

Over Christmas holiday I was 225 pounds, struggled with C25K week 2, running 90 seconds at a time.  yesterday I ran a 12-minute mile, then walked a little, ran another 12 minute mile, walked, and then ran 6 minutes, for 30 minutes of running in a 45-minute workout.

The fat guys at the firehouse are asking how I did it. Ha ha!

I could focus on how hard the next 17 pounds is going to be - or I could take a moment and feel pretty good about what I've done. My life might not be where I want it to be, but darned it, I keep forgetting that I'm light years ahead of last year, and things really aren't as bad as they sometimes seem.