I totally bought a new dress. It's cheap, from Cotton On in the vicinity of $35. But I don't care! It's my little self-congratulation for the 500 grams I kicked off my body this week!
Now only 2.5kg to WW goal weight. I've pledged with a fellow WW member to try to kick the last of this before the end of Feb. Can I do it? 2.5kg in the shortest month of the year? To top it off, can I keep my stress levels down from unrelated (but equally pressing) things in order to focus on weight loss?
Why not?
It's taken me a while to realise (27 years give or take a month) that I'll have to keep living with stress. I have believed for a long time that there'll be some magical time when I'm not stressed (though there will be times I'm less stressed). So I'm no longer delaying my present happiness in lieu of that magical future time. I need my stress to relax me, in the present! So, with my 2.5kg final hurdle ahead of me, I'm shopping for a new outlook on life. One that allows me to get through stressful situations like a hot knife through butter. No longer smashing my head against brick walls, but letting difficult situations resolve themselves, with my help, but without worrying about it.
And positive reinforcement through dress shopping is the only way to get there.
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