I'm going to go through my life up until now precisely once, and though I may have to circle back and touch on a particular aspect of it once in a while, I don't plan on dwelling on the past.
I've been overweight as long as I can remember. In elementary school I work husky clothes. In seventh grade I wore the same size clothes as my dad, and by eighth grade I was giving him hand-me-downs. When I graduated high school I probably weighed about 250 lbs. and in the last 20 years have put on about 60 more. My highest recorded weight was 308, back in January 2009, but I haven't always kept track, so I don't know exactly how heavy I really got. I am sure that it wasn't much more than that though.
Still, 308 lbs. is no small number and even though I've had success losing weight in the past, I've never kept it off for more than a year or so. In my adult life, my lowest weight was probably about 225 lbs., but that was back in college after losing 60 pounds in a semester away form home. Even though I felt great at 225, unfortunately feeling great was not enough to keep me from putting all those pounds back on.
As I look back through my life I see that I am the one who's taken every step down the road that got me to where I am today, and I've taken responsibility for them. No one else is to blame for me being overweight, only me. Conversely I'm also the only one who can take the steps for me to lose weight and keep it off as well. This new path includes major changes to my diet and lifestyle. For the first time in my life though, I'm looking at making a change that is from here on out, not trying to apply a temporary fix to a permanent problem. It is from this change in attitude that I hope to achieve long term success.
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