Weight a Minute

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently" ---Henry Ford

This morning while making pancakes for my beautiful children, I almost caught myself about to sit down with one of these huge carbohydrate pillows. Quickly, I got online and looked up how much hiking, walking or jogging I would have to do to burn off a carbohydrate pillow. Ouch, that pancake certainly does not sound that good.

Every day we are faced with choices. These choices determine exactly where we are in the future. It can be the near future or long term future, nonetheless our choices today determine our future tomorrows. During the period where I used food as a drug, I was only concerned about the present and how I felt at that moment. Trying to hide an emotion behind food determined the eventual future of over 430 pounds.

I have to admit that I still have days that I get side-tracked and lose sight of what I have eaten. However, the next day or sometimes later that day, I get right back on track by clearing my mind. I immediately start loading my mind with positive self-growth materials and inspirational stories to assist me in avoiding further deviation from a healthy lifestyle.

Is it easy, is a question I keep getting. In the first twelve months of a complete lifestyle change it is not easy. In fact, it was very difficult and very challenging. There were times I nearly came to tears and thought why would I put myself through this. Maintaining weight and losing weight are two completely different worlds. Losing weight requires deprivation, regardless of program it has to be reduced from a maintenance schedule to continue to lose weight. Stay the course, because after that twelve month mark something miraculous took place. It became a way of life without feeling any deprivation at all. I continue to lose nearly two pounds a week and only if I deviate too much does this amount of weight loss diminish.

"Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back.There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price." ---Elie Wiesel

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." --- Jack London