. I also realized that now is the best time to get this party started!
mind if I follow along? You sound a lot like me but further along
I actually read your journal today at lunch time and thought to myself that I am alot like you! I was going to tag along on your journal as well. I will post there in a bit. I think we can learn alot from each other and help each other too. Your posts really inspired me today.Vija my good buddy! How exciting is this? Wish I had known of it sooner but I have been off wish for a while and not sure why
Its the most supportive group ever.
Don't have time to write now- I did send a private email.
Just know I am so proud of you for doing this and for sticking with it.
Count me in, I am with you for sure. We are going to Iceland August 17 - 30 and am doing a 10k on August 20. Scared, but exciting!
Anyway, I will be a daily visitor, my promise to you (except when in Iceland - we will be off the grid, but I will catch up when I get back)
More later.
Linda
Look forward to another one... a longer one! so glad that you are going to be reading this too. It means alot to me to be able to share this with you. Can't wait to hear about your 10K! You really are inspiring!
Vija -- never forget that you ROCK!you are a strong woman and so very inspirational!
I took only 1 teaspoon and spread it on one cracker, (yes, only 1). I knew if I had any more I might as well grab a spoon, dig into the bowl find a corner and hide, eat it all and go back after lunch and ask who ate it all...
AND I ate my apple too. That is becoming habbit to eat an apple at lunch. Kind of like that. 
It was yummy, but I need to make better choices when going out to eat. DD had a grilled chicken salad. It looked pretty good. I need to find the courage and strength within to stick with making healthier choices. I do great some days and then it's like the "fat and carb" monster comes out and wants to be fed carbs and creamy fats. There is some fear involved, but not sure what? Fear I won't be full? Even when I'm stuffed I don't always feel full... KWIM? Hey Vija - hope your weekend is going well.
Mine has been crazy! Down one pound (just 8 since January and I feel like a colossal failure - but another story) but the rest of the weekend has been bad, too much mindless eating!
Which is why, I think, a lot of the weight loss industry thinking is fundamentally flawed, because true bingers like me are not guided by hunger when they are on a "drug run".
Another story there.
Went down for the day to meet up with my sister who lives in New Brunswick. We were to meet up in Springhill, N.S. to go to the Anne Murray museum, which I had wanted to go to for some time.
It was raining, I get to Truro, my windshield wipers stop working. Big time drama, she picked me up, got to the centre but ended up driving more than 11k, in the pouring rain, with no windshield wipers - before I could get to an area where I could leave the car. My friend drove me home, but it was wild. Four way flashers, all I could see was a little bit out the side windows and a fuzzy white zigzag on the right.
Scariest 11k I ever drove!
Anyway, tonight the "drunk" is over, doing ok. Walking about 1.5 hours in the morning.
Looking forward to hearing from you again Vija - such a wonderful journey. Want to be part of it.
Linda
ANd I am so glad you are on the journey with me! It means so much to me. You ARE a part of it and together we will work away our issues and get to a healthy place. Look at you... on the way to do an 10K!!!! That is AWESOME! Can't wait to hear all about it and support you in that.) I'm tired, and off to bed!
You're doing great! 
