How goes the diet?

[skcin]

Originally Posted by sara1998

Thank you, and yes, really, I am.

I have a friend who's constantly lamenting about how she wishes she were the size she was when she was 20. I personally don't think anyone should look back & want to be just like they were in the past. Life's a journey & things change - it's not natural to go in reverse. From the pics you've shown here, you've lost weight over the past several months & I think you look great. If you want to lose more, go for it - try for a better/healthier future you. But I wish you wouldn't compare former you to current you - you're not being fair to yourself & it will only make you feel down.

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by skcin

I have a friend who's constantly lamenting about how she wishes she were the size she was when she was 20. I personally don't think anyone should look back & want to be just like they were in the past. Life's a journey & things change - it's not natural to go in reverse. From the pics you've shown here, you've lost weight over the past several months & I think you look great. If you want to lose more, go for it - try for a better/healthier future you. But I wish you wouldn't compare former you to current you - you're not being fair to yourself & it will only make you feel down.

Amen, seriously. Awesome post and advice. There's nothing wrong with wanting to look good as we get older, but no matter what *I* do, I will never be the hot little 20-something I once was *sigh*.

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by skcin

I have a friend who's constantly lamenting about how she wishes she were the size she was when she was 20. I personally don't think anyone should look back & want to be just like they were in the past. Life's a journey & things change - it's not natural to go in reverse. From the pics you've shown here, you've lost weight over the past several months & I think you look great. If you want to lose more, go for it - try for a better/healthier future you. But I wish you wouldn't compare former you to current you - you're not being fair to yourself & it will only make you feel down.

I don't know... I mean, I agree with you about life being a forward-looking journey, etc., but at the same time I think it's a bit defeatist to just sigh and resign yourself to being in a situation that you're not 100% okay with. I would like to think that we should always do whatever it takes to make sure that we are getting better and better in every way- healthier, prettier, smarter, kinder, stronger, and if weight is an issue, leaner too. Why do we have to associate aging with decline? I think that if, for whatever reason, you consider 20 to be your pinnacle physically, there is nothing wrong with striving to get back there. You were there once, so you sure as heck can get up back there again- and perhaps even surpass it.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by skcin

I have a friend who's constantly lamenting about how she wishes she were the size she was when she was 20. I personally don't think anyone should look back & want to be just like they were in the past. Life's a journey & things change - it's not natural to go in reverse. From the pics you've shown here, you've lost weight over the past several months & I think you look great. If you want to lose more, go for it - try for a better/healthier future you. But I wish you wouldn't compare former you to current you - you're not being fair to yourself & it will only make you feel down.

Word. You can use those old photos for motivation but not to beat yourself up.

There's a lot more jiggle in my wiggle right now although I'm not up a size or heavier. I just haven't been to the gym for a couple few weeks. I got sick and then there's all this Christmas ****e to do. But I'm going to the gym today or at least doing yoga here at home. It is really hard this time of yr so I try to go easy on myself.