The journey to health and wellness
As I look back over five years of stickers, I see many things: how far I’ve come, what I’ve accomplished (the good and bad), and how my body weight, diet, and drinking correlates with my swimming. The goddess stickers remind me of the challenging events—huge work projects with mountainous obstacles or fear-ridden events like swimming in the San Francisco Bay—and the heartwarming ones.

I have plenty of experience beating myself up, like gaining some weight at Christmas, but my tracker serves as proof that I can lose the weight if I eat well and exercise. And if I think I will feel badly about weighing myself, I don’t.

I will probably use stickers for the rest of my life, and I wish you the best of success if you decide to track the special things in your life too.

With gratitude,

Deborah Newton
Tiburon, Calif.