Not Over Night

I don’t know if everyone goes through this or not. I do know that many people I have talked to that have had to lose over a long period of time due to the shear amount of weight they need to lose has gone through this. But there comes a time in this journey where you just get frustrated that you have to keep going. I think the first time I hit that wall was when I was at 100 lbs down.

100 lbs down is such a huge milestone, but to hit it and realize that you basically have another 100 lbs to go is a little daunting. Plus it is so easy to become complacent. After all you have lost 100 lbs, everyone is telling you how good you look. It is hard to keep telling people over and over thank you but I still have a long way to go.

Even now I still have 30 lbs to lose to get to my UGW of 192. People come up to you and either A) Never knew you at your heaviest so don’t understand why you are eating the way you do. or B) remember you at your heaviest so they are comparing you to what you looked like then. or maybe it is C) and I have such a warped sense of self that I assume that is what people are thinking when in actuality they aren’t considering my weight at all.

Either way when you get to that point it is easy to think I deserve to eat that piece of cheesecake. I deserve to not have to go to the gym. I deserve to do nothing!

But here is the lesson I learned through this journey. The normal people, that have a healthy relationship with food. They eat that cheesecake, but they share it, and guess what the go to the gym and work out afterward. Unfortunately just like everything else in life you need to work for it no matter who you are. We all have to pay a price, one way or the other.

If you want to be healthy, you need to take care of yourself!

As I say, it is all about the small choices we make every day.

Every day, every meal, every minute is about making the decision to be a healthier you.