Am I really a quitter?
Today I made the choice to pay my $1 fee to drop out of the weight loss challenge at work instead of continuing to rack up $1 penalty per pound that I gained....what?!?
When did I become the type of person that would quit and raise the flag of defeat instead of making good choices to get healthy and fit. I guess it was way back in 1997 when I graduated. The scale has slowly gone up and up until it topped out at a high of 235 lbs. I started putting on weight before having kids and can't blame the "baby weight" for my issues. I moved from sz 4 to sz 12 as I entered college. I was working full-time, a full-time student and active in sorority life. The recreational and school sports I'd been part of gave me more than 2 hours of excercise each day and now I was not even getting 2 hours of excercise into a week. There was the option now that I was making my own money to stop for fast food or eat out with friends as much as I wanted to. Those bad choices have continued....now to change that and excercise some self-control.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 1967
Today I made the choice to pay my $1 fee to drop out of the weight loss challenge at work instead of continuing to rack up $1 penalty per pound that I gained....what?!?
When did I become the type of person that would quit and raise the flag of defeat instead of making good choices to get healthy and fit. I guess it was way back in 1997 when I graduated. The scale has slowly gone up and up until it topped out at a high of 235 lbs. I started putting on weight before having kids and can't blame the "baby weight" for my issues. I moved from sz 4 to sz 12 as I entered college. I was working full-time, a full-time student and active in sorority life. The recreational and school sports I'd been part of gave me more than 2 hours of excercise each day and now I was not even getting 2 hours of excercise into a week. There was the option now that I was making my own money to stop for fast food or eat out with friends as much as I wanted to. Those bad choices have continued....now to change that and excercise some self-control.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 1967
It is hard to compete with others when it comes to weight loss. I am a new follower, I found you off another bandster's blog. I look forward to reading further. *Maria*~DiZneDiVa: Confessions of a Cupcake Addict, follow me at danceofthesugarycupcakeslblogpspot.com
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