Reminder to myself: Life is about more than weight loss

Hard to believe, I know.

The reason I say this, is because I am trying very hard to commit more to the Weight Watchers program, and so I'm deliberately using the etools they have, and one of them is a blog. Which is fine, but I feel constricted on it. Like there are some things that don't belong there. And then it is very limited; I can't change my background or specify where pictures show up, and I get a bit claustrophobic about stuff like that.

Hey. I never said I wasn't more than just a little OCD. Not once.

And of course, I have a lot to say about weight loss and how motivated I am, and how great my workout schedule is, and how much I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE some of the treadmills at the gym, and how excited I am about how much of a head-turning hottie I think I will be...

Also, I never said I didn't feel attractive. Except maybe once, and that was because I was on a road trip for two whole weeks with my sister... and even then, it wasn't that I didn't feel attractive, its that nobody noticed me beside her... which is a completely different thing, and if I'm being perfectly honest, absolutely natural.

Most of the time, I promise, I picture myself as Marilyn-esque, turning heads when I walk into a room.

However, I digress.



I remembered today that I have a whole lot of other things going on besides... well, everything I already talked about in this post.

Things that I really need to keep on top of:

1. My retirement plan. Which involves me keeping my job, which means I need to keep being professional at it, which means I really need to get to work on time in the morning. This also involves me following up with my realtor and having a chat with my mortgage broker.
2. My CBAP - Certified Business Analyst Professional - Exam. I would still like to be able to write that in October, but I really need to get on the application and get it submitted.
3. My new niece/nephew, which ever it is, who is due to arrive in October and for whom I have the most adorable quilt planned. I really need to get on making that.

And those are just the three major things that pop into my head. Part of me wishes I could spend all my time focusing on losing weight and looking good, but there is a lot more to life than that. Oh well.

Just to keep the list going, and in the spirit of keeping a complete journal, this is the list of other things that I am thinking about right now:

• Practicing the guitar more regularly than every 3 months
• Learning how to paint (step 1, sketching lessons complete; step 2, drawing classes start tonight)
• Designing my dream house in preparation for actually getting to build it in time for my retirement in 8.5 years, if everything goes to plan
• Investigating hair replacement techniques
• Unpacking all my stuff and organizing my house
• Getting my couch delivered!!! This is VERY important to me!!

And finally, just to sneak this into this post, I weighed myself this morning. I'm down 1 lb since Saturday. Yay me!!!