Baby Stepping to the Door

Have you ever seen the movie What About Bob? with Bill Murry?  It's hilarious.
If you haven't seen it, I weep a little for you.
It's good times.

In the movie, Bob (played by one of the funniest men on the planet, Bill Murry),who is an extremely insecure and neurotic recluse goes to a new shrink (Richard Dreyfuss) and is told that he won't be able to have his weekly psychotherapy sessions because the doc is going on vacation for a month.  Instead, the doc gives him his own brand-new, best-seller book, "Baby Steps," to help Bob deal with his separation anxiety over the next month.  Bob, however, uses the idea of Baby Steps to baby step his way to the doctor's vacation home and into his life.  It's way funnier than my sad little summary makes it out to be.  You really ought to see it.

I've been thinking about Baby Steps the past few days.
I'd really like to sprint, run a marathon, take off like a bat outta - heck, you know what I mean.
I'd even settle for a scamper or a scurry...
But it seems that right now, I need to be taking Baby Steps.

Baby Steps to tracking my food.
Baby Steps to exercising.
Baby Steps to stopping eating when I'm satisfied.
Baby Steps to buying foods that are good for me.

And, though I'm moving at a slug's pace, things are going pretty much ok.
I tracked my food twice this week, which is two times more than the previous week.
And although I didn't get to the gym, I shook my booty at home to my Just Dance game.
(As a side note, I just have to say, I LOVE THIS GAME!  I'm even considering stopping my gym membership and Just Dancing full time because I am so intoxicatingly in love with this game.)
I'm being somewhat more mindful of stopping when I'm full, instead of stuffing my face until my plate is clean.
And I'm even trying to make smart choices about keeping the house stocked with foods that are better for me.  Why, tonight, I wanted to make cookies.  And make them I did...over at my sister-in-law's house.  And yes, I ate a couple, but then I gave ALL the leftovers to her because I know I can't handle them in my house at all.  That's progress my friends!

So this week I've been putting one foot in front of the other.
Baby stepping here.
Baby stepping there.
And when I went to Weight Watchers this morning, my Baby Steps had led to taking off 3.4 pounds this week!  Yea for Baby Steps!!

So I am (once again) officially smaller than the day I graduated from college, and that's a good feeling.
Just gotta keep going,
one Baby Step at a time.