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I love her attitude. I am overweight too (60 lbs) and I hope to become more athletic and healthy through my efforts with cycling but even if I don't make it to the perfect chart weight, that's okay too. I know I can learn to adapt and still do well.
This is such a great attitude, lovelygamer. I was talking with my boyfriend tonight about the level of anxiety that I have around food after my injury. I'm terrified to eat, terrified to put on weight, but I know I need to meet a certain level of healthy calories, and even fat, in order to get bones back together. And PT is not going to be easy either. But having a mindset like yours is such a blessing. I still nitpick at myself for every single solitary flaw, and can't even rest on the "But I can do X on the bike!" as a reward for what those flaws might be. It basically broke my heart this last week when my best friend was visiting from Philly and she and my boyfriend were able to do 135 miles together in 5 days, and I didn't get to do *any* - so then they wanted to go out and eat and eat and eat....not so easy to eat all that when all I do is sit!