An Unusual NSV: Time!

I realized recently that, for the first time of all of the instances I've ever tried to lose weight and get in better shape, I am mostly not super-aware and overly conscious and worried about...well, time!



In the past, I would worry and think about all kinds of time as it'd concern my weight-loss efforts...

- Time spent at the gym, on a particular machine or just in general..
- Time before my next meal...
- Time until my next weigh-in...
- How long I still have to go until my various short-term and long-term weight goals...
And so forth and so on.

I don't know what's quite different about this time, but it just is.. Well, actually, I'll say that I was still largely thinking and concerned about it in the beginning, but it seems that the more time that goes by and I'm generally remaining committed and motivated, the less I worry and care about it.

And I'm SUPER-happy about this because I feel like when you're paying so much attention to the time -- be it how long you're working out, before your next meal, or until your ideal weight goal -- that's when it seems to take the LONGEST and feel the most torturous.

I hope that I'll only continue to worry even less and less about it...in time

Note: The pic above is of the calendar in my hallway and my goal bikini. I bought that bikini -- my first time having ever purchased a bikini -- some time in May, soon after I started this new journey. I started marking the days down to both my short-term and long-term weight goals to help with the feeling of making progress and seeing how much closer I'd be getting with each passing day; however, in the midst of doing that, what started as one lonely red "X" or just two red "X"s has mutated into a sea of red, not only really driving the point home of how much I've already accomplished but also making the days and weeks (and hopefully ultimately months) all start to run together...which i LOVE.