There are obviously many difficult moments and challenges faced when you are trying to lose weight. But, there many benefits to being on a journey to health and fitness. So, I wanted to list a few of those I have noticed this week. I like to call them non scale victories. 

* my biggest jeans are officially too big to wear. 

* I can almost cross my legs all of the way 

* I was at a party and sat in a smaller chair with arms and fit. 

* I had a stressful week and I used mostly exercise to deal with it. I ate on the high end of my calories and lots of carbs but no binging! 

* My controlled blood pressure (with two pills) has always been in the high 120’s- low 130’s over high 80’s to 90’s. It now consistently reads 110-119 over 75-80. And my pulse has gone down considerably. 

* when we were planning service day at school I would’ve normally been happy with a sedentary inside assignment but I was excited to get assigned to outside mulch duty. 

* I taught a fitness class. It went awful and I totally stressed but I tried it. I never ever would’ve done that 6 months ago. 

* I eat with dignity. 

* I have energy to play with Henry. 

Here are our Saturday morning selfies. 

   

And a few of him walking on the couch like he is not supposed to. 

    
 
Well, I am off to have some coffee. 

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Xoxoxo

Beth WA