Attitude is everything!

Hi there!
So the past few months I have not been doing a whole lot of work on this blog. But I have been working on something a lot more important. Of course, really keeping this blog is important for many reasons. Mainly that even if nobody ever reads it, I know that I have put my thoughts and feelings out there not only for someone going through the same journey but I have them for myself to look back on.
But I’m jumping around. Which is totally like me and unlike me. I have a friend who constantly changes subjects in the middle of a conversation and expects me to know what she’s talking about. Really, I think she’s testing me to make sure I’m paying attention. (Yes, I mean you Sharon J). I do pretty well at keeping up to what she is referring to if I say so myself. I think it comes from having a good memory.
So the work I’ve been doing that’s more important than this blog? Being fabulous! Like the title of this blog is attitude, that’s what I have been working on. Besides being at my job that pays me. Which, had my attitude not been better these days, I would NOT be able to handle the extra hours & work that have come my way!
With loosing weight I have gained so much. Mainly the best thing is a better attitude. And that goes along with the other thing I have been working on. Living life. I have some quotes that keep popping into my head like a bad pop song in the middle of a long day.

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it” – Charles Swindoll

And another one I love that I hear frequently at work (I work on a Physical Rehab Unit)

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude” – Scott Hamilton

Just like I have made the decision to not exercise, not eat right in the past. I am trying to make a conscience effort to live by the 1st quote. What a difference it makes. Lately, to say the least, my life has been crazy! From living arrangements, to being a full time aunt (see living arrangements lol) to work and oh, yeah this horrible pain I have been having. Which I will know more about after I see Dr K. tomorrow and see the results of my HIDA Scan that was done last week. We’re thinking my gallbladder doesn’t like me anymore & it feels it shouldn’t have to work right anymore. Time will tell, maybe it will need to come out. But hey, then I would get a nice paid for vacation during the summer. Like I said, how you react to it.
Another thing I have been thinking about is how over time people have often said things like “they didn’t talk to me when I was heavy and now that I’m thin I am worth their time. No way, don’t need them”. Well I know this because I always thought it would be that way. That my time would come and I could snub those who snubbed me! Then WHAM it hit me! I have a breakthrough thought. Oh a breakdown, who knows. I realize now that when I was at my heaviest I was also at my unhappiest. I wouldn’t have wanted to talk to me either! I was very UNAPPROACHABLE. I know this know.
Yes, there are those who saw my weight as the reason not to talk to or try to befriend me. But I should give others the benefit of the doubt and try to consider that maybe it wasn’t how I physically looked that turned them away but the way I presented myself to others. Another good point, they may not even recognize the new thinner, brighter, happier person you have become to who and what you used to be.
As usual, I have rambled on. It’s a good thing I’m typing this otherwise I could go on forever. Trust me, I can get fired up about this (and boy can I! lol )

Until next time from a lighter and happier
~Princess Jenn~