Starting a new adventure - in Healing

Life throws adventures at us that we do not choose for ourselves.  I wish I could choose my own adventure, and while that is possible I do not get to choose them all.  Now I am starting the adventure of recovering from my second blood clot before the age of 40.  

I now have to change from the woman who was planning to walk a half marathon, to the woman that is planning to walk around the block again some day.  I can't do that yet, I can walk to the mailbox though.  I can go a little farther even.  I am learning my limits, and I hate it.  Tell me what not to do and I ask why, if I don't like your reasons I push back.  I don't like the reason I can't walk like I used to and I really want to push back.  I know that would be bad though so I am trying not to.
I am working with my doctors and my nutritionist and I will get better.  I want to try to log my progress here with this forum.  I have heard many stories of people starting a blog and changing their lives.  I want to change my life.  I have gained and lost so much weight and if you ask me how I did it, or what I ate, I couldn't tell you.  I hope that by logging it here I will be able to look through my past and remember the lessons I learned so that I will not have to keep re-learning them.
My lessons I remember for now.
1. Nobody is going to steal your food, so you can take your time eating it. - I tend to buy myself healthy snacks and then polish off the whole box like I am afraid if I don't get them all down they will be gone.  I think this is due to the fact that I have "purged" the kitchen of snacks out of my kitchen before.  I am not going to do that to myself again, so I can chill.
2.  Only eat when you are hungry.  - Ever since I was a small child I thought there would be severe consequences when you skipped a meal.  I don't know what I thought those consequences were but they would be bad.  I have learned that I can, and at times should, skip a meal and that nothing bad will happen to me.
3. Take it a step at a time.  - Just move!  You don't have to walk around the world for it to be worth taking a walk.  Sometimes just walking to the mailbox is enough.

I live a pretty cool life

As part of my goal of losing weight and getting healthier I have started taking walks in the morning.  I have to do this pretty early becuase since in live in the southern part of Texas it gets ungodly hot during the daytime this time of year.  Usually I walk around my block for a total of close to 3 miles, but today I was tired and had walked yesterday.  So, at my husband's suggestion I walked to the corner and back, closer to 1.5 miles.  When I turned around to come back I was met with this spectacular view!


That's my puppy Dixie in the front and that little yellow dot that her tail is pointing to, that's Sara.

I am so happy that by turning around I was treated to something spectacular.  I think I will try taking out in a different direction more often and see what other beautiful treats are in store for me.


And for some more good news, I weighed myself this morning at 165.0.  It looks like I lost more weight on my trip than I thought.  Either that or this new eating lifestyle is already starting to pay off.