Sometimes I forget...

SwannySez

I love MFP. I love the people I have met, the community they have built for themselves and welcomed me into, the support, the fun, everything. But sometimes I forget or don't really notice where someone has come from or how far they have come. I just am having too much fun chatting with them. I focus on their current profile picture amd their wit and don't allow what they have achieved to sink in.

Then out of the blue I will see someone's latest accomplishment and it will hit me: this person I chat with everyday about exercise and calories and life has lost almost a hundred pounds - or more!

Maybe it says something about my selfishness and my ego that I have not paid more attention before, but when I see something like that and it hits me I am always awed.

I came here really to get in shape and lose what was to me a significant amout of weight: 35 lbs. When I see friends who have lost two and three times that, how can I fail to be inspired?

So I guess this is just a general congratulations to all those who have lost, a keep at to all those who are losing and to those who might be discouraged: look around at your friends here on MFP and see how many have done it - and ARE doing it - and know that you can too.

BIGJIMMYU

Great to see some kudos and a happy post like this. You r so right! I too am inspired by those who have lost so much more than I will ever need to lose. These people are indeed heroes firstly to themselves and to their loved ones and thirdly us, their new lifelong friends in health and fitness!

felice03

Awww, that is why you are my friend...well, that and your *kitten*.

BIGJIMMYU

He does have a nice one.

TankGirl71

You're not fooling anyone, Swanny. You're just trying to make nice with the mods.

SwannySez

You're not fooling anyone, Swanny. You're just trying to make nice with the mods.

Don't you go jacking my...thread, girly! Oh wait...