The other day before the start of the Wednesday Weightloss Challenge, I was chatting with one of the challengers. She was telling me that a year ago she weighed in at around 300 pounds. Mind you, this is not a tall woman, maybe about 5 foot 1. Carrying around that much weight on such a small frame is not only unhealthy, it's potentially disastrous in terms of the damage that much excess weight can do to a person's body.
She was telling me that she had lost almost seventy pounds from her former highest weight. We were discussing what she did to achieve those results. I asked her "Did you have a moment in your life that changed you? Was there a point in time when you KNEW that you either had to change your life for good or face the very real possibility of bad consequences to your health?". She knew clearly, it was one day when she looked at herself in the mirror and didn't recognize the person staring back at her. At that moment, she knew her life was not on a path she wished to continue walking on. It was also at that moment she made a conscious decision to take another path, one that would lead her to better weight and improved health and vitality. She made a personal committment, got going and hasn't turned back since. She is an example to us all.
I mention this because all of us, no matter what we are faced with, have to come to some point in our lives when we not only realize that we do not want to continue on the same distructive path our lives are heading, but we are finally, committed to making real and lasting changes, no matter what challenges come up. To succeed in losing the weight and keeping it off for good, as in anything for that matter, we must not only make the decision we must make change and commit our daily actions to make it happen. You cannot make change if you aren't willing to change your efforts. Enough said.
Coach Marji
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