by Nancy » May 6th, 2007, 9:16 am
Falisa ~
I know how hard it is to show up when not feeling especially optimal. I have had so many failed weight loss attempts - I have a trail of them.
I was a professional dieter. I have been on nearly every diet out there and all they ever got me was...OUT there - I was out to here and out to there!
Those failures taught me something really important - if I was to make it, to escape from my fork-induced flaborama, I had to change stuff.
Once I reached the "I've totally had it" stage, I decided that I could no longer go on living according to my own selfish weighs - I wanted to de-flab once more and by golly, I was gonna do it 100% according to the program ways - not MY way because doing other diets 75% did not get me to my goal. Doing things my way, got me to weigh too much.
It is not too late for you.
Yeah, it s embarrassing, it hurts our pride, it makes us feel like poopage when we fail but failure can flip ya toward higher ways and it can be just the impetus one needs to git 'er done.
I hurt inside for you because I have felt that empty, achy, cry-yer-eyes out, red puffy eyelids, snotty-nose gasping-for-air feeling so many times...I know how it feels to sit in a rocking chair in a darkened room and not go anywhere except to the office for months because of embarrassment and feelings of failure and the fatigue that washes over, the painful joints and sleepless nights….it just goes on and on.
There is nothing good about being there…
But do ya know what?
There is fresh air outside.
This is a new day.
We cannot haul you outta your funk, we want to… but you must get up outta that chair, go to the pantry, fill that jar with fresh cool water, add the packet of shake mix and give it a shake-a-mundo and sip it down.
Guzzle a tankload of water and then two and a half hors later, do it over again.
Gather up every lick of Lisa that’s left and come on out and play with us!
Shake with us!
I did it this time.
You can do it, too.
We believe in you – even when you do not believe in you, we do.
Nothing tastes as good as thin feels...
The Formerly FLABulous and Now very Fabulous
Nancy Pettit
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