Last week I celebrated reaching my 58th birthday. Since I’ve been a little down that my weight loss progress has stalled for a while, I wanted to remind myself of what progress I have made. So here are some photos of me starting around when I was at my heaviest, to the last couple of months – at the ranch and at Paul’s birthday last month. I’m not too upset about sitting at 100 lbs less than where I started.
Yesterday I did something that I could never, ever have done a year ago. I went to a park, granted I needed the wheelchair for parts of the excursion, but I also stood up and walked around, carried my heavy camera, walked up and down the steps of the porch, and to and from my wheelchair. My back barely complained till the end. The only residual pain I’m feeling today is in my heel where I have been battling plantar fasciitis. When I woke this morning it was so painful I couldn’t put any pressure on it at all, and needed to have the wheelchair brought in from the van just to get across the house. I was back in the chair again for Palm Sunday Mass, but I explained to many dear and concerned friends – it’s just temporary till my foot feels better.
And now, at the end of the day, it’s better than this morning. I’m going to be ok, and I have NO regrets about “overdoing it” yesterday. I was living the dream, baby, and I’d do it again. In fact I know I will!
Signing off with Chat GPT’s version of my action figure, which, aside from being a little plumper than I actually am right now, is pretty spot on! 🙂
