Will this ever end?

A little different (and a longer) post today; if you're here just for the pictures, please, feel free to skip ahead... I just need to get all of this off of my mind right now.

To be honest, I've been doing awfully lately. I have been looking for my lost motivation (no, still haven't found it) and (for a split second) even started thinking about giving up and never looking back, but, well, which one of us doesn't have bad days, right?

Tomorrow is a new day.

Tomorrow will be better.

Tomorrow we can start over.

Tomorrow I can start over.

This has been sounding in my head like a mantra, something I'm trying to persuade myself of, something I tell you every week, and yet I myself end up breaking every single time.

I have gone way too far to give up on everything (and all of you) now, I know. My roommate is noticing. She says I don't eat, that I don't sleep, that I am disappearing before her eyes. She looks worried and that really hurts me because she is a very dear friend to me. I can't tell her, she knows my excuses are too feeble, she sees that I'm suffering, but she seems to accept everything because I know she loves me.

We're strange creatures, don't you agree? When I first started, I set my "far future" goal weight to "somewhere between 52-55 kg" (~115-120 lbs), and the weight at which I would "feel good about myself" to be 55-56 kg. When I was 56 kg, I felt everything but good about myself, and so I pushed myself. When I was 55 kg, I saw that I could do better, just me, myself, and my determination and I pushed myself again.

I'm pushing my goals, my dreams, my ideas about perfection and I'll be pushing until-------?

I wonder if what I am will ever be enough, if this is ever going to come to an end. I feel trapped in this vicious circle of reaching for... what am I actually reaching for? 

No, I'm not depressed, this is just something that my brain has been telling me for the past couple of weeks... and I don't know what to do about it, I honestly don't know, I keep going, keep restricting, keep trying to lose... and meanwhile, what I'm losing is the connection between what I am now and who I used to be.

I'm sorry for the lack of motivational quotes, I need to make myself believe them before I can post more.

We all know them... we see them in the streets and wish we were more like them. 

P.S. I know posts like these are extremely hard to comment on,
but if you leave only a dot, one letter, a question mark...
whatever, I will appreciate it now more than ever because
I need you, my darlings.

I love you and I will never cease to admire
how strong, encouraging and truly beautiful you are.

Thank you.


Yours always,
Lu.

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.

Can you believe it's almost March?

Of course the weekend was very bingeful for me, but I'm back

on track and started another fast today: haven't weighed myself 

since Friday since I know I gained, but I want to see the numbers

from last week on the scale again; if I stay as good as I was today,

it might be very soon! :)

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Oh, and I wanted to ask you-- I got some supplement

Calcium tablets because I read an article somewhere that

a little higher daily dose of Calcium (meaning in addition to

what we get from regular food) can help you lose weight 

from the 'problematic areas' (especially the waist)

much faster when dieting. 

Have you heard anything about that? Is it true? 

I'll see for myself and will keep you posted!

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Hope you had a wonderful Monday!

Cheers to a new week!

Three cheers to new beginnings!

One last thing- I went through some of my past posts

last night and realized that OH MY GOSH, there are way

too many pictures that repeat: I'm sorry about that, my loves,

I'm trying to get better at recognizing what I've already used

on my blog and I promise that from now on, 

I'll be trying to pull out pictures I haven't yet posted.

I'll never get tired of saying this--

my little darlings, thank you so much for all your 

encouraging comments, you mean a lot to me!

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Love, love, love,

MARCH is almost HERE!!

Lu.