Goals

 I reached a big goal today!  I'm normal now, at least in size. 

I've spent most of my adult life hoping, wishing, and making multiple attempts to reach "normal".  I always gave up.  Not because it was too hard to eat healthy food or, because tracking what I ate became too tedious.  I quit because I got impatient.

I've had success in accomplishing goals in the past.  Some were easier to achieve than others and many took a lot of work and dedication.  None of them, however; challenged my ability to stay motivated like losing weight has.

One of the most difficult things I've ever had to overcome is looking in the mirror and not getting discouraged.  It's hard to persevere when the first thing you see every morning is the consequences of your bad choices staring back at you.

While I was working on losing the weight, people often said "this is a marathon, just be patient".    They were wrong.  Not about being patient, that's important but, their analogy was incorrect. Losing weight isn't a marathon.  It's a maze. 

We walk straight into brick walls, take wrong turns and, we have to continue trying to figure out the path that will get us to where we want to go.  Time and patience alone won't do it.  Staring down that image in the mirror and vowing to keep going forward (even when you run into brick walls) is the only thing that works.   Knowing with everything in you that there is no going back to where you began - no matter how familiar that path might feel.