A good fitness week!

Last week Monday-Friday, I got in four walks and one session with the Firm Upper Body tape. On Wednesday I did a walk in the morning, and the Firm tape in the afternoon. Yesterday I did two walks for a total of 6 miles walked in about two hours.

This morning, the trusty tape measure showed another half inch lost from the ole midline. I had vowed that if I lost two inches (a total of four from New Years) that I would step on the scale, but now I’m thinking maybe I’ll go for two more inches after that! It is very easy for me to obsess about the scale but the tape measure seems to be a different story. I’ll have to see. Part of me is aching to jump on there and see how much the needle has moved. The other part of me says, “Good things come to those who wait.” So maybe two more inches or the 4th of July, which ever comes first!

Pete took a recording of Sam and I playing a piece at his recital. The audio is gorgeous. Unfortunately it shows me totally from a side view and I was mesmerized by how HUGE I look in it! I actually felt very svelt that night, but the reality of this tape says differently.

I may have mentioned that as a teenager I had anorexia nervosa. I had anorexia, before I ever heard about it in the media! Part of that disorder is having this body image of being fat, even when you only weigh 98 pounds! (That happened to me!) Now I’m wondering if the reverse mindset is true. If the mind can trick you into thinking you’re fatter than you are as a teen, could it also convince the middle aged mind that the body is thinner than it really is? Perhaps. But the pictures don’t lie and I am actively determined this summer to do something about it.

So I’m going out on a limb here and publically writing that I want to drop 30 pounds this summer. That takes me to a weight I call “the threshold of thinness.” Maybe the blog will help me hold to it!

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