Thinking I might tweet...

Second day of school.  Mom is improving.  Barry's at work.  I should be working on my dissertation.  Much more incentive to blog today!  Please bear with me as I learn to blog.  In my mind there's a fuzzy zone where blogging simply becomes a narcissitic venting, mental dysentary or useless effort for me to write or you to read.  So as I fine tune that sense, be aware that I may offer a little TMI (blame approaching menopause?), useless mind ramblings or something in some way offensive to someone.  What I want to do is see if any of my musings, research, training or experiences can resonate with yours.  I want to offer insights into what has often been right in front of me but I had to get a little more seasoned from life's ups and downs to see it.  As you feel ready to jump in with comments I'll try to fine tune further as I find out what is really helpful to people.  One of my biggest personal feats offered by this blog is to try to put to rest my 120% or it's nothing mindset, a destructive life tendency that I'm trying desperately to break!  I'll also open some discussions on my facebook Healing Pathway page so that if a drilled down discussion is helpful we can do that there instead of in a blog.  

As for the tweeting... All morning I've had tweets in my head but no phone in hand.  Things that I'm loving about being 53lbs (almost!) lighter at 53 have rolled through my awareness.  I'm considering tweeting these not so that I can gloat (really!) but so that others might see that there are joys along the way toward goal weights and better health.  If we don't appreciate the small victories, we'll never reach the big goal.  

Have I shared my mantra that has kept me on this journey?  When I was just starting out I was terrified of how long the process of losing 90lbs was going to be.  I was praying about this cuz I  was afraid it would deter me from even getting started.  (120/0 thinking again!)  A catch phrase (for those uncomfortable with the word mantra) came to my mind.  (I believe from my amazing Creator!)  Countless times along this journey I have reinforced my resolve with this phrase:

 "It may take a long time but I won't always be here on my way there." 

now on to the dissertation!!!