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I have a friend who keeps a jornal she callsd Phoenix Rising.

I love to use the story of the Phoenix when I am talking to people about losing weight. It’s just such a great story.

You see a Phoenix is born of the ashes. Just when you think there is nothing left, something wonderful immerges from something ugly.

And that’s what we all have to do at one time or another. We all have to be born of the ashes.

The ashes of depression.

The ashes of anorexia.

The ashes of smoking.

The ashes of pity.

The ashes of self-destruction.

So many people will tell me when I ask what they are waiting for, “I guess I’m waiting to hit rock bottom.”

But the thing is, there is no rock bottom. Wherever you are, there could always be worse.

And you usually don’t have to look very far to find it.

So when people tell me they are waiting to hit rock bottom, I tell them, “You have to rise from the ashes, because you could always go lower. You will never get to the bottom of that pile of ashes. No matter how far you dig. Because life happens and here and there along the way things will be added to that smoldering pile.”

I thought I had a rock bottom with my weight. I swore I would never go over 250 pounds, but I did. And I could have gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. There was no rock bottom, so I had to pull myself up from where I was.

But the good thing is, when you realize where you are and immerge out of if as something new, that pile of ashes that once buried you under becomes the very thing you perch yourself on right before you fly.

And when you are soaring above the pile of problems that once held you down, and they appear so small, you will wonder why you stayed so long in the ashes.

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