"The more weight I lose, the more I'm finding that my fitness goals are becoming more important than my weight goals. If I had to chose between weighing 160 pounds or running a 9-minute mile, or dare I dream an 8-minute mile, I think I'd go for the speed." - Half of Me, April 14, 2007

Like Jeanette, one of the things that I've noticed during this past month or so is that I'm starting to again focus my efforts on my fitness goals, rather than my weight-loss goals. Maybe that's because I'm not struggling to fit into my clothes as I've been the past couple of years, but I'd like to think that it has something more to do with me just enjoying being so active again.

This is for another entry at another time, but having gained back a good chunk of weight, and then lost it again, I've noticed I'm a little easier on myself when it comes to What My Goal Is. I can assure you spent waaay too much time fucking around with my physical appearance and idealizing "just another 10 pounds" before I gained some weight back. I really wasn't that satisfied with anything, which is sad considering what great shape I was in.

So I suppose the lesson for me now is to concentrate on my health and my athletic abilities, as opposed to my clothing size. Again, it's another entry for another day, but I can't tell you how much time I spent looking back on old pictures of myself from 2004, early 2005, and wondered why I ever wasted the energy I did, beating myself up for still being in the 140s.

Posted by Erin at 03:25 PM | filed under: Inspiration