[GeminiPrincess]

I'm go glad that you posted this rant.......because you helped me yesterday witt my own "hard day".

It is hard to make a choice every day (actually, it's more like every few hours) to eat the best thing for you. I will say that it does get easier.....the choices become routine. But you're always going to have a bad day here and there........a day that makes you want to cry, scream, yell, or hit your head against a wall. And you should feel lucky, because THOSE BAD DAYS DO PASS. So if today is your bad day, you've got a LONG time before you'll have another one: I just know it!

Like others wrote before, YOU can control this. You can't control what anyone else says to you. You CAN control how you react to it. And I'd say doing more stairs was AWWWEEEESOME!. Just think of the day when you get to your goal weight and your dad is singing a different tune. Then you can tell him that you didn't do it for him, you did it for yourself. And maybe in a nice way you could tell him that his words didn't help all the time, and sometimes they were hard to hear.....but you stuck it out and did it.

My own father is not exactly like this......but he isn't great with it either. My dad can't communicate at all. When I got close to 300 pounds he had his GF tell me that I should go to a gym. I'd only known her for a few weeks....it was wicked awkward.
That was several years ago. I lost weight, but it wasn't a mindset. It was actually very dangerous, used tons of a ephedra, and ate one piece of bread a day. I think of my poor heart and am glad that even though I have the weight to lose ALL over again, I'm going at it with the same POSITIVE attitude that YOU and everyone else on this board is. WE ARE ALL DOING THIS. And quite frankly, we're ALL kickin' some serious a$$.

You can do this, you are doing this, and you are EXCELLING at this. Keep it up, and write any time that things are going sucky.

Rita Marie