Ok....I know you guys aren't all fans of Oprah (I'm looking at you Auntie Paula!) but I seem to be doing something that she so often does. Talks the talk but can't walk the walk, or jog the jog, or run the run....you get it.
Lets face it, I'm not new to weightloss. I've tried things that don't work, I've tried things that do. I know pretty well what works for me and what I should be doing. But do I do it? Hell no!
Why is that? Why do we refuse to do what is right, while justifying why we're doing wrong?
I think that I am so used to falling of the wagon that I wouldn't know how to handle success. Sounds stupid right? You should handle success by celebrating and being happy. To me celebrating means food. Food means gaining weight (at least the foods I'd celebrate with would) and going back to where I started. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm scared of success because it would mean the start of the decline.
I have to stop thinking about weightloss as something that will end at some point. It's a life long "journey" (I hate to use that word, it sounds so hokey) and there isn't really a finish line. That also scares me....cause I don't want to have to worry about calories for the rest of my life.
Geez....why can't Biggest Loser just come knock on my door and offer me 250,000 bucks. Now THAT would motivate me! :)
<3 Steph
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That's right, Sista-friend. I do not like Oprah. But to use her as a good example is smart. Which is what you are. Smart. I think you have hit the nail on the head. It's like an Ah-ha moment when you can see that there isn't a finish-line and that it is a lifestyle adjustment. I have made some lifestyle adjustments in my life. Quitting smoking was the first real major one. And after I had Mackie, I was getting older and I wasn't just melting the weight off like I used to be able to do. I had to change. And once you do that, you feel empowered. I got addicted to the empowerment feeling. It's a good motivator.
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