I was fat and unhealthy. There I said it. It is easier to hear if you are saying it to yourself, and sometimes we need a crisis before we start telling ourselves the truth. For me that crisis came several months ago when I learned that my older brother had had a heart attack and they put a stint in his heart to save his life. I went up to New Jersey to be with him for part 2 which was another surgical procedure to insert stint #2 into his heart. The surgery went smoothly and he is doing well today, but that day I began to tell myself the truth about my own condition. I was in danger and I knew it. Two other people in my immediate family had died of a heart attack and now my brother was facing this same situation.
We tell ourselves so many lies. I'm just big boned. I have slow metabolism. I'm not that fat. I'm just a little overweight. I'm just getting a little older. These are all things that we tell ourselves so that we can justify sitting on the couch for a few more years. I'll quit smoking someday, or I'll start working out later. I'm going to have just one more slice of that dessert, after all I don't get the chance to taste that very often.
I was tipping the scale at about 210 lbs when I took that trip and today I weighed in at 177 lbs. I went through bypass surgery 10 weeks ago and spent 8 days in the hospital, which temporarily stalled my quest to get down to a healthy weight, but today I am down 33 lbs since I told myself the truth that I was fat and in danger. Why not tell yourself the truth today, and then do something about it. Don't wait for a crisis.
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