Lorna #6

Good heavenly days, Platz Family and "Extensions"!
This blog stuff has been really, really interesting for me. I feel so supported.
John/Ham, thank you so much for your words of wisdom. Me too, I want to be around for my grandchildren and great grandchildren. Not just be around, but be vital and as healthy as possible. Ever since I hit 55, the perils of deterioration, the risks of sudden ill health, and the spectre of the grim reaper, have suddenly been much more up front for me. Friends get suddenly sick, die, etc. Definitely a motivator to take excellent care of myself. Sounds like a really good group, John, and it cuts through denial.
My favourite denial is: carrot cake is a vegtable. It's an old joke, but, when I am choosing (that "choice" word again) to fool myself and not take resposibility, carrot cake really "becomes" a vegtable for me.
Thanks for your tips too, Jessie.
Angie, darling, a wise person once told me to be very gentle on myself whenever I am confronting an uncomfortable truth. The old scales helped you out initally. The new scales are bringing reality more clearly into the picture. I like what Birgie said about this being a long haul picture for us heavier, less-than-young folk. I too have about70 pounds to lose to become really healthy. Although I am aiming squarely at the target date and the weight goal, the process of making the right changes that will support me long term are what count the most for me right now.
On a very good note - my emotional melt-down of this weekend is over. With help, and a really cool CD called "Radical Acceptance" - read by the author of the book of the same name, Karen Brach, an American Buddhist teacher - which I listened to much of the past 2-3 days just for its occasional "Ah Hah" moments, just brought me sailing through a very hard, and short, time. Doing well! Thank you for all of the good wishes. My old concepts of myself as an ever- lonely person are being shot to hell! Thanks to you all, as well. Is that not just way too cool!!!!!!
Love, Lorna