The long and winding road.....

Hello everyone. Hope all is well and you are enjoying the hot days of summer. I know that 37 states have excessive heat warnings, so hope every one is keeping cool. It sure is hot in PA and I'm not liking it one bit. Today was weigh in day, and I lost that pound I gained on the vacation week, and a bit more. I don't even want to brag about it because it is such a slow process for me. But hey, progress is progress right?

One of my blogger friends, was feeling a bit down this week, and so was I last week. I hoped I cheered her up, and encouraged her with my post, because she always does the same for me. In fact last week, unbeknownst to me ( who's keeping track at 50??), I was really PMS' ing. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was super emotional, very moody and quite frankly feeling like giving up. Not  like me at all, but again,I didn't make the connection until after it had all passed. I really didn't think I could ever really succeed at this weight losing process. But then I made a connection, this time on twitter, with someone who helped me over the hump.

 Thank goodness for the kind uplifting words that Amber ( if you don't know who she is, you should,....meandjorge.blogspot.com) gave to me. It sounds corny, but she turned my thought process and mood around, just by her kind words of encouragement.  Please indulge me for a minute, but whether it was hormones, or raw emotion, I was actually teary during our conversation on twitter. The fact that someone I had never met, cared enough to help me through a rough time, and gave me motivating words of advice, made me feel so grateful and restored my faith in humanity and the spirit of human kindness.

This journey we are all on, is a long, winding, road. You may have great progress for days, even weeks at a time,  and then one day you are feeling down and out and don't know what to do. If you reach out to others on these blogs, stay in touch and keep up on new ideas, and meals, your journey will be smoother and easier.

The fact that these blogger friends, are people that I have never met, but who care enough to reach out, and take a minute out of their day to help a fellow traveler on this journey, makes it all the more special to me. It makes me realize that we are more alike than we think, and more connected than we know.

So today, I thank all of you for those kind words of encouragment, especially when you speak more kindly to me than I do to myself. You are setting me in a positive direction and I hope to always return the favor.

So treat yourself kindly, speak to yourself as you would to others, and don't beat yourself up over little missteps or mistakes. It's all good my friends, and little downfalls are only bumps in the road, We are on the right path. It's about the journey, not just the destination.

Thought for the day:  Keep calm and carry on!