Oddly, this blog is helping me get through the six months. So if you get tired of my drivel, I understand - but this is entirely about getting through this and keeping my momentum, right now anyway.

Between this blog and reading everyone else's - I'm learning a lot and generally keeping my mind occupied on something other than my impatience.

I am impatient.

Yesterday was Wednesday. Today is Thursday. That's progress! I like progress!

Why is this progress? Because sometimes one little ol' day is enough to comfort me. Yesterday - Dec 7th seemed so very far away. Dec 7th is my next weigh in. Dec 7th is, in some realm or another, my midway point for the unweightloss program. So how does going from Weds to Thurs make me feel better?

Because Weds is hump day. It's that day that's not leading into the week and it's not leading out of the week. It's just there. It was my hump day before vacation. So now I'm on the downhill slide for the week and vacation is looming.

Next week will be different. I won't be preoccupied about this - because I'll be preoccupied about something else.

And then I'll come back and have one measly week before my next weigh in. And therefore (knowing myself as I do) that will be a quick week! Couple the excitement of midway with returning from vacation and being slammed with "crap, I'm back at work" - it will be a quick week.

And then it's Christmas season, anyway. And time will fly! I'll be begging for the days when all I could do is sit here and think about this because time will speed up in the next week to something a bit beyond a blur.

So really, one day changes everything for me.

I know, I've got this whacky count down thing and now one day means it's the end of the year and I'm half way through my unweightloss program. But work with me here. If this makes me feel better - let me have it. Cause I feel better now.

All I can say is I hope there are people on this planet who don't have to twist calendars and clocks to get 'feel better' moments. :biggrin:

Hey, no one celebrates every little 'moment' I can come up with here more than me...if there were cakes given out at all my celebrations we'd all be fat forever. Keep looking for those positives! -BG

Hey, ldswims! You are doing everything right and heading in the right direction! I, for one, enjoy your "drivel"!!! Keep posting, and keep up the good work - I am rooting for you!!!

Add me to the folks that enjoy your "drivel"! I wish I was able to process my thoughts into words as you do. Sometimes just reading what you are writing allows me to say "Bingo! That's what I mean." So keep on, keeping on, Girl!!

I am right with you on the impatience. Every time the phone rings or my e-mail goes ding, the first thought in my head is "Maybe it's the hospital! With some piece of information that moves me closer to being able to schedule my surgery!" And... so far, no movement.

I'm reading this book right now, and there's a chapter in which he talks about how easy it is to get totally absorbed in your weight-loss journey, and he recommended that bandsters all go out and do volunteer work. Or something like that, that gives you a sense of perspective. I've been thinking pretty hard about the idea... I need a non-weightloss distraction!