I sound like myself talking to my daughter. She would laugh at what I said and do what she was going to do any way. I trust that you will do that too.

I’m proud of YOU, not your weight.

we are the behaviors and actions we perform in our everyday lives.

if you have changed your habits, then you have changed your behaviors, and you have changed your self, on all levels of mind-body experience. physically, intellectually, ethically.

the static image that we recognize as our “self” is really like an echo or an afterimage, because our self is actually always something that is contingent and in flux.

that’s a good thing. it means that we have the ability to change and grow and respond dynamically and adaptively to situations.

what “makes us who we are” MUST be changing always, if we desire any kind of growth. In fact, it IS always changing, whether we like it or not. Most of us just get freaked out tho and expend all our energy clinging to the echo out of fear of change.

thats why the real trick is to develop habits and practices that allow you to see yourself ‘new’ every time you look in the mirror, to experience a kind of non-recognition so that you can continue fully experiencing within the dynamic stream of process, growth, possibility, and transformation.

if you always see the same old thing, then you will likely feel the same old thing, and you will not take full advantage of growth opportunities.

…or something like that.

I think it’s human for loved ones to not know how to identify you, so its easy to liken you to someone who you appear to look like. It’s also natural for one to begin to pick out the aspects (‘afilado’, ‘mas delgado’, blah blah) of what now makes you you.

For a long time after I lost my weight, people would say I looked like my brothers but my family still called me cachetón, gordo, even though I wasn’t.

I don’t know, it’s funny. It’s just a simple change of habits but it causes a wave of changes and affects others too.

I like to say postively.