Just completed my morning walk; all 12,500 steps covering 11km over one hour fifty minutes and taking me past a nearby olive orchard, it's fields now green with emerging growth
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Past a citrus orchard, with trees carrying an almost impossible load of ripening fruit, their branches bending under the weight
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And on to the grounds of the monastery round which I love to walk on Sundays.
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The blue sky above and the warmth of the morning sunshine lift my already high spirits even further.
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The reason I am in such good mood this morning is that I weighed myself before I set out and I am now exactly 92kg, a loss of 10kg since mid September.
Now the number 10 always seems significant in these decimal dominated days, but the reason I got excited is different.
You see when I first started this thread back in February, I weighed exactly 92kg.
Somewhere along the way I got complacent abandoned this thread and this forum, took a wrong turn and lost my path along with control of my glucose levels and my weight. By September 16 when I resurrected this thread, tail between the legs, my weight had ballooned to 102kg.
So today's 92kg represents a return to the beginning, a coming of full circle back to where I started or rather back where I want to be, hopefully not about to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Now I know that there are no guarantees that the road ahead will be smooth. I know that my mortal nature will endure that I am fighting a war that I am doomed to eventually (hopefully some time in the very distant future) lose.
For now though, this weight loss feels like a small victory and I am celebrating and taking pleasure from it, all the more so because I feel I fought hard to earn it.
If only I could package and sell the way I feel at this moment!
Or rather I could store it for my own future use, for my own future reference at times of temptation and need.
Maybe this is exactly what I am doing in writing it all down in this diary.