Stuff I wrote elsewhere...

but I feel is relevant here. I wrote these paragraphs in response to a message and a FB post of a friend who shall remain anonymous, unless she should choose to come forward. I feel that they express well some of the thinking I have or am trying to reinforce about my weight and my health:

I was "good" all day, and then ate a plate of cheese fries tonight. As Scarlett says, "Fiddle dee dee, tomorrow is another day!" We'll just keep on pluggin'. Remember that one day won't do you in forever, it's the entire picture that counts. So just let today go. If there is stuff left over and you want to make sure you don't eat it, take it to work tomorrow to share or dump it in the garbage right now and throw some yucky trash on top of it. We think of doing something like that as "wasteful" but it is really more wasteful to eat it when we don't need it or to eat it and spend emotional energy punishing ourselves for it. The mantra for tonight is, "Let it go. Let it go. Let it go..." and I DON'T mean by taking a laxative!

It is being HEALTHY that is important. Some people can be healthy and still be "overweight" or even "obese" according to BMI. It is important to look at your entire health picture, however. Diabetes? High Blood pressure? High Cholesterol? Blocked arteries? Limited mobility? Low energy? No sexual desire? If your weight is affecting your health by contributing to symptoms/diseases, then it needs to be changed. That is why my weight is an important factor in my health... Even though by some standards I am considered morbidly obese my cholesterol is 140, probably because I eat mostly whole grains and very few trans fats. However, my blood glucose could be under much better control at a lower weight. remember to look at the big picture of your health and not one little item at a time. My chiropractor, whom I love, told me not to make any changes that I cannot make for my entire lifetime. For me, I could NEVER say, "I will never eat french fries again." I CAN say, "I will limit fries to once a week, in a controlled portion." Tonight was french fry night and they were covered in melted cheddar and bacon bits - DELISH! I just know it won't happen again for a while...

And I am losing weight. It's not 3, 5 , 7, 10 pounds a week like on "The Biggest Loser." It's a quarter of a pound a half a pound, little tiny bits at a time. Sometimes it's unmeasurable because of my edema and I don't know what is water and what is really fat, but I am going to just keep trying my little bits at a time.