Time
Before I won my battle with obesity, I saw things in a completely different light. Or was it darkness I was peering through?
Whatever it was, I failed to grasp the concept of how little time it would take to lose weight in the grand scheme of my life.
Yes, it surely did take me 2 years to lose the weight.
But…I am 39 years old. That’s not even one percent of my life!
It’s nothing. Not if you allow yourself to look at the big picture.
I used to make charts and graphs of how long it should take me to lose weight. Thing is, I underestimated the time it would take by a long shot.
I thought it would take one year. It took exactly double that. Two years. But y’all, I lost half my body weight. That’s a big deal. That’s certainly something worthy of my time, isn’t it?
Of course, it is.
Put those charts down. Stop calculating how long it’s going to take and just get after it.
If I had it to do all over again, don’t you think I would still give that small percentage of my life to do it? It’s not like I wasn’t living during that time. I was!
By the one year mark, I had it down! I was queen of my new lifestyle.
And that small chunk of time you’re giving to fix your life? You may be surprised that one day you will view it as the best of times. The moment you rose to the occasion and made your whole life better.
If no one ever told you, let me be the first. YOU are worth the time it’s going to take make this journey.
Hang in there. I’m pulling for you…and will be the whole time!
January 6, 2009 at 8:24 am
Thank You for being you… Adina, you have NO idea how much your writing is helping me… in fact, I think it was something you wrote on your blogs that got me to the gym at 4:30AM this morning… thank you… and you’re so so right AGAIN… I guess experience is the BEST teacher!