Thursday, September 26, 2013

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Today is sunny outside.  Not particularly warm, but sunny.  I love, no I need the sun.  I didn't realize how much my body needs sunshine until I moved back up North after living in the South for 11 winters.  It doesn't have to be particularly warm - it will only get up into the 60s today - but it does need to be sunny.  Besides, I have plenty of  lovely sweaters to keep me warm.

After deciding to not worry about dieting and just staying where I am for a while, I realize I am just not happy here.  I am not expecting my weight, or weightlessness, to make me happy by itself.  But I want to be securely into the "overweight" category, not teetering back and forth between that and technically obese.  As a result, just for today, I am going to work my program like it is my job.  I will see how I feel at the end of the day.  I will not obsess over it - just do it.

And, yes, the sunshine has a lot to do with this.  It lifts my mood, lifts my soul.  It has been a pretty icky year - way too much death around me.  Way too many broken hearts, too.  But that doesn't mean that I have to fall, too.  If I have the strength to do so, I need to stand up straight and tall.  Today, I have the strength.  Today, I will walk on sunshine.

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