Hope. Believe. Change

I was reading WW magazine the other day (it comes in the mail now and I read it cover to cover and then go back and re-read!) and the letter from the editor had these 3 little words and it just hit me.  How profound are they?  Hope.  Believe.  Change.  These are 3 GREAT words in my journey.  By seeing other WW members in the meetings and seeing their success, that has brought great hope to me that I too can make positive changes in my own life.  Through this process, I have had to believe in myself.  I am strong.  I didn't always make the best decisions when it came to what I put in my mouth, still don't, but I believe in myself a lot more these days than I have in the past.  Change.  Since October 9th, 2008, I have had a huge change in my life.  I started to take charge of my weight and gain control of it.  I love these words!  I am going to put them on my calendar at work because they can apply to every day life as well, not just WW world/weight loss!  I'm thinking of crafty ideas to keep these words on my at all times, perhaps beaded bracelets.  I will continue to examine the impact of them on my life and post from time to time what they mean as my journey continues.

So in other news, I jogged for the first time in a LONG time!  I was walking Duke after I got home from work and it started to sprinkle and I was like I'm walking 1 loop around the block with the dog, but it started to pick up and he had done his business, so we started jogging to continue the loop.  Then we kept jogging and we made it back to our driveway before I knew it!  I was so in shock that I just jogged a considerable distance (I'm going to check the mileage on that tomorrow in my car) and the rain stopped, that we walked a loop to recover and make sure I wasn't going to die, that we started a third loop and I was feeling pretty good/confident about myself so we jogged some more, not as far this time, but again a considerable distance considering that I'm not a jogger by any means!  Got up to the top of the hill for loop number 4 decided again that it wasn't so bad and jogged to the driveway, sucked in some air and then for our grand finale, we jogged up the big hill in my neighborhood, after that I was spent, but 5 loops around my block is 3 miles!  So, now I'm curious about the distance that I jogged...I'm betting it was over a mile (I'm hoping it is!)  It was not consecutive, but hey it's a start and you gotta start somewhere!  :)

Tomorrow is weigh in.  I've been stepping on the scale at home and if my scales are still consistently 2 pounds off from the WW scale, then I'm down .4 of a pound.  I'm a little bummed about that, but a loss is a loss.  So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that tomorrow is a down day.

Also of note, watched Biggest Loser.  This is the first season that I'll be tuning into from start to finish and I'm so pumped up by watching it!  It's very motivating.  I have my favorites already.  I love Daniel, the 19 year old kid.  And, I also love the 63 year old couple, I think they are absolutely adorable!  So, we'll see how my faves progress through the season!