I’m listening to the first track on “28 days to motivate” and I thought I’d take some notes.

Day 1: Always Remember Why

Celebrate the reasons I’ve chosen to lose weight.

Lots of little resons made me decide to finally lose the weight. Today, I’m focusing on this reason: Lack of control over my eating (and my life).

I need to picture what I looked like when I was thinner. I think I was about 140 when I got married at the age of 23, and I was anything but thin at that weight. Still, I felt confident about myself and I’d like to dream about having that confidence again.

What’s on my mind today: It takes COURAGE to change your life. For the past five years, I’ve let negative self-talk “trick” me into taking the easy way out, making irresponsible and self-indulgent choices regarding food and drink, and letting myself go because I thought I didn’t matter. Today, I congratulate myself for starting this life change. I used my weight as an excuse to put my life on hold for the past SIX YEARS! I wasted my 30’s! Well, no more! My 40th birthday is in June of 2008, and you’ll be seeing a lot less of me when I reach that milestone.

Starting weight: 217

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