The story of love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ~Helen Hayes
ANNIVERSARY TODAY! 11.11.10
Today is Evie and my fourth wedding Anniversary. We have been together for five years now and I still think she is the perfect woman for me. These have, without doubt, been the best 5 years of my life. Like every couple, we have had a few less-than ideal moments but unlike most couples, I have never doubted the wisdom in my decision to spend my life with her nor lost faith in her promise to me. She is my inspiration and although, typically, addiction may have a negative association, I am and do not regret that I am, irrevocably and unconditionally, addicted to her love and her presence in my life. Thank you Evie.
Today is Evie and my fourth wedding Anniversary. We have been together for five years now and I still think she is the perfect woman for me. These have, without doubt, been the best 5 years of my life. Like every couple, we have had a few less-than ideal moments but unlike most couples, I have never doubted the wisdom in my decision to spend my life with her nor lost faith in her promise to me. She is my inspiration and although, typically, addiction may have a negative association, I am and do not regret that I am, irrevocably and unconditionally, addicted to her love and her presence in my life. Thank you Evie.
It is way past time to update my blog now. My first blog, 5 months ago, introduced a quest I was setting off on and I said I would bring you along. I have good news and bad news with this. The bad news is I didn’t document my quest nor my progress as I said I would. If there is anyone out there who actually read my first blog (besides my wife) I apologize. I will be more careful to measure and commit before I type in the future.
Now the good news: As far as I know, the only one who I know , or even suspect, was actually following my process/progress was my wife and she was experiencing it first hand. Still, because I flaked on my blog, she only got the external experience. Now, I want to make it all right so I am going to document the past 4.5 months. Obviously not in as much detail as I might have in a real-time blog but in reality, I am mostly just making this right for me and the universe (abstractly speaking) so I deem it as “okay”.
Regarding my journey that started back on June 16, 2010, more good news and bad news. . .seems to be a theme, no? Anyway, this time, I will start with the good. As I stated I would, I did start my weight loss journey, right on schedule. When I started, I weighed 263 pounds. As I mentioned, that shocked the hell out of me as I had successfully managed to avoid weighing in since I had weighed around 215 and, frankly, I had no idea. I was pretty sure that my weight hadn’t changed all that much, even though my clothes size did. In reflection, I am not really clear on what my logic was there. It seemed to serve me at the time though. Fortunately, it served as good motivation to get on track.
The path I chose to try to lose weight was a pretty intense, medically supervised, program combined with another pretty intense exercise program. Both were structured and I knew I needed that to stay on track. The weight loss program had a mild accountability factor that required me to meet with folks once per week to weigh in and absorb nutritional information for about an hour.
The first meeting was odd. I am not really a “support group” kinda guy so I did not fancy the idea of 1) thinking I needed any sort of support group; 2) identifying myself with a group of overweight folk; or 3) extricating myself from the choices I had made thus far in my life concerning diet and exercise.
At the same time, I have a couple of other things I believe very much about this life and hold very close:
As an aside, if I were to choose a theme word that has led to my greatest successes in life, the word would be “commitment.” It would be followed closely by “boldness”, “perseverance”, and “tenacity.”
Now the good news: As far as I know, the only one who I know , or even suspect, was actually following my process/progress was my wife and she was experiencing it first hand. Still, because I flaked on my blog, she only got the external experience. Now, I want to make it all right so I am going to document the past 4.5 months. Obviously not in as much detail as I might have in a real-time blog but in reality, I am mostly just making this right for me and the universe (abstractly speaking) so I deem it as “okay”.
Regarding my journey that started back on June 16, 2010, more good news and bad news. . .seems to be a theme, no? Anyway, this time, I will start with the good. As I stated I would, I did start my weight loss journey, right on schedule. When I started, I weighed 263 pounds. As I mentioned, that shocked the hell out of me as I had successfully managed to avoid weighing in since I had weighed around 215 and, frankly, I had no idea. I was pretty sure that my weight hadn’t changed all that much, even though my clothes size did. In reflection, I am not really clear on what my logic was there. It seemed to serve me at the time though. Fortunately, it served as good motivation to get on track.
The path I chose to try to lose weight was a pretty intense, medically supervised, program combined with another pretty intense exercise program. Both were structured and I knew I needed that to stay on track. The weight loss program had a mild accountability factor that required me to meet with folks once per week to weigh in and absorb nutritional information for about an hour.
The first meeting was odd. I am not really a “support group” kinda guy so I did not fancy the idea of 1) thinking I needed any sort of support group; 2) identifying myself with a group of overweight folk; or 3) extricating myself from the choices I had made thus far in my life concerning diet and exercise.
At the same time, I have a couple of other things I believe very much about this life and hold very close:
- I must be open minded to experience what this life has to offer and
- when I make a choice to be somewhere or do something, I must be present with it and participate fully in order to see or experience the value that is offered.
As an aside, if I were to choose a theme word that has led to my greatest successes in life, the word would be “commitment.” It would be followed closely by “boldness”, “perseverance”, and “tenacity.”
