Me... an inspiration???

I finally had a chance to get my hair cut today. Afterwards I posted a pic of the new 'do on FB (natch...) A few hours later I got a msg from a girl I used to work with...

"You look fab!! You gave me motivation to get my butt in gear. Started a couch to 5 k running program yesterday...."

I can't believe that at (still) 300+ lbs I can be an inspiration to anyone. I *know* I've lost close to 20 lbs and have changed a bit since January, I can feel it, but hearing that *I* am someone's inspiration to start running & get in shape? blows my frickin mind.

wise words...

I see a lot of inspirational quotes on FB (who doesn't??) but I saw this one and it really summed everything up.

I'm not trying to lose weight to be skinny, but to be healthy, so I can be around for LJ for the long run (hah, punny). I'm surrounding myself both on- and off-line with people who inspire & motivate me, and slowly... SLOWLY... i'm changing my mindset on things like food & exercise, I'm just *changing* ..

I'm now down 10ish lbs since I started tracking, and while I still feel like bingeing/ mindlessly eating whatever's around sometimes, I try not to. Having to journal on mfp helps, as does a touch of the flu ;) If I were to keep up this pace of weight loss - 10 lbs in 6 wks, I could be down close to 80 lbs total by Christmas. squeeee! I'd still have another 50+ to go, but what a fab cmas gift that would be... All right, enough day dreaming.