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Darcy, you are so right on!!

Whether we are going up or going down - life is what is going on around us, NOT what's going on under our feet, so to speak.

If we live our lives to the fullest we are able everyday, we'll have no regrets, and when we think back we'll remember all the wonderful moments we experienced - not what our weight was.

I think it would be wonderful to be able to look at a photo of myself and not have any idea what my weight was when it was taken - and not even wonder! I swear, every photo of me, no matter what I'm doing or who I'm with, I could say with absolute certainty, "I was about xxx lbs there."

This is how focused I have been on my WEIGHT instead of my life...

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Thanks for posting this Darcy. I felt like you were talking about me. I obsessed so much about getting under 200, now I am obsessing about getting into the 180's. I keep fluctuating between 190 and 191.5. My problem is that I am so busy weighing myself everytime I pee, that I am not enjoying where I am at in my weight loss. Thanks for the wake up call.

Now, can you get me to stop weighing myself everytime I go potty?

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Excellent post, Miss Darcy. You're right -- it's so easy to get stuck thinking about how far we might be from our goal weight, instead of how far we've come, even those readers who are not yet banded but who have come a long way in their emotional journeys. Brava!

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