If you are overweight, you are not ugly, the FAT is.
I have been on this site for a year now and have met some awesome people. People who are in excellent shape and who are happier than they have ever been. A lot of these people who i have befriended have something in common with me. They at one time had been overweight and felt really ugly at one time. Well the truth is you never really were ugly at all. The fat that was on you hid the beautiful person that you had always been. The fat was and is what’s ugly. Fat to me is like an illegal drug. It slows you down, it depresses you and it makes you , well literally sick and tired. You hate to even look in the mirror. I weighed myself yesterday at the gym and my current weight registered 233 lbs. What is significant is that i have not weight below 235 in about 5 years, what’s even more significant is that I weighed damn near 250 a year ago when i joined bodyspace. So in a year’s time i have dropped 17 lbs of that ugly fat. The road has not been easy. It seemed like my workouts had been doing nothing for me for months. Then i realized I was my own worst enemy. I realized why the fat was not leaving and immediately took steps to solve the problem. It was as simple as knowing that what was good was not good for me. I changed up my eating and cooking habits and just finally said no to some things that i loved but knew were bad for me. There is no majic pill but before i knew it my energy was through the roof and what i used to consider a chore,is now my life essentially. I make excuses to go to the gym now and i can look at foods I thought i couldn’t live without and walk right past them as if they aren’t there. I’m so excited about the coming year because i see the changes in my body, my clothes are starting to fit better and for the first time in about 10 years I will take my shirt off at the beach and feel great about it. I have commited myself to the healthy lifestyle i have been wanting to acheive for so many years. If you are overweight, please read this and look at all the profiles of people that have fought this battle. Its not too late and me and most of my friends here are proof that you are not to old to live vibrant and healthy. I’m still a long way off from being where i want to be, but i’m much better already than I used to be.
December 19, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Oh thank you for that post! It could not have come at a better time for me. I was reeeeally struggling today. On one shoulder "my inner voice" was saying screw it! I’m just going to eat what I want, when I want and not "worry" about it so much. One the other side I was "hearing" but you’ve worked so hard and your starting to see results - are you just going to throw that all away? So thank you for the motivating post to love clean eating and the life that goes with it!!!!