No Excuses!

Yesterday after work, my brother stopped by for a visit and we got talking about the new season of Biggest Loser starting up and that led to all kinds of conversation about weight loss. In that conversation, he said that you can always tell at the beginning that the people (on BL) don't really believe they can do it but there is a point where suddenly it shifts and they know. They are doing what they need to do and they can do it!

It reminded me of when I first started WW in 2006, how I finally realized that I was the only one who could make it different. I am fully capable of making the change and I have all the resources. I used to feel like my weight was just happening to me. I was a victim and my body was its own entity that was doing its own thing. Now I know that there are health issues that do in fact challenge weight-loss but I don't have any of those. And in the end, I am the one putting the food in my mouth and making decisions about whether or not I will exercise.

Until I took responsibility for my weight, nothing really happened. Once I realized the freedom of knowing I could make it different, my weight dropped and it became less of a struggle.

Now I know over the last year that I have been feeling like a victim as if my body is just getting fatter by itself and I am not in control of it. The reality is, I am in control of it. I can make the changes and the decisions that need to be made to make it different. Or I need to take the responsibility that my weight is what it is because of the choices I am making.

I remember someone used the phrase "No Choice" as a way to stay focused. I rebelled against that because I need to have choices. With the WW program, I have lots of choices in what I can eat and still meet my goals. Instead the motto I have appreciated, is "No Excuses" because I always have lots of those but in the end, it is me and only me that can make this different.

One of my favourite biblical quotes is from Galatians 5:1

"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."

This always comes to mind when I am struggling with my weight.

So here I am! I am at a weight I am unhappy about but I can make it different and if I make the right healthy choices, by this time next week, my weight will be less. I can do this. I am entirely in control of this. Now I need to move forward in confidence. And I am feeling that today.