Today is a Good Day to Toot!
The best part of being a weight loss success story for me, has by far been getting to share my story with others. I love writing. I love talking. I love meeting new people. So sharing my story is something I am ALWAYS happy to do, whether it be with one or 100 people.
But I had a friend ask me the other day why I got to share it so much. She asked me if someone had turned me in for losing all the weight. She said, “I know you’ve done a great job and everything, but just how did you get to do all that?”
My immediate reply was, “Girl, I tooted my own horn.”
She laughed, and thought I was being modest. So I reiterated my point by saying, “Girl! There ain’t nothing wrong with tooting!”
And you know what? There really isn’t.
It’s how this very site works. You have to go beyond setting up your profile. You have to make updates and changes to your profile as you grow stronger and leaner. To truly experience the community of this site, you have to participate.
How can someone congratulate you if you don’t say, “I did something great today!”?
When I see an overweight person struggling through cardio at my gym, I make it a point to get on the machine next to them. I do give a mean pep talk after all! Often times, new gym members are sent my way for motivation. The thing is, the comment I hear most often is, “You don’t look like a person who lost a lot of weight.”
So, how can I motivate someone struggling to make it through cardio if I don’t toot just a little. Just a quiet little utterance of, “I know what it’s like to struggle through cardio. I used to weigh 256 pounds.”
Sometimes, the very thing you just accomplished is something someone else is striving so hard to achieve. Sharing what you have done and how you did it helps not only you, but the other members of this site. You get encouragement. They get hope.
I love looking at the profiles of people who keep their charts and photos updated. Now that I am through the weight loss part of my own journey and into the muscle building phase, I continually draw on what I see on other profiles. I am an expert at losing weight and keeping it off. I am a novice when it comes to lifting and building.
I’m putting forth a little challenge today: Take a look at your profile. If it’s been a while since you updated anything, it’s time to release a little flatulence of self praise.
If you communicate with someone who you know has made gains or maybe losses, but too modest to proclaim it, tell them it’s time to break the wind of modesty. You might just send them a message and tell them you haven’t noticed them tooting lately, and you don’t think they should hold it in.
Today is a good day to update your profile or login to the forums and proclaim something you have accomplished…because today is a good day to toot!
June 30, 2008 at 5:08 pm
"Modesty died when clothes were born" - Mark Twain
There is no louder way to toot your horn than to have other people stare at your body in awe - and there is nothing more beautiful than a human body displayed with all the grace that God has given us.