It is officially time to reveal my new personal challenge. As you all know, I am a big girl. I was recently to the doctor regarding my coumadin level and prescription and of course I was approached about weight loss surgery. Now, I have to say that this doctor was very nice and wasn’t as in my face about it, but never the less, still gave me the lecture. As he was talking, my eyes filled up with tears. He asked me why I was crying and I really couldn’t tell him. I think I am just so over hearing about these surgeries that I could scream! I understand that I am only 29, but I truly believe it is not the only solution for me. I have spent the last year in the gym with a trainer and granted, I could have been better at times, but it has given a confidence that I cannot put a price on. I am finally at a point where I accept myself for who I am and what I look like. What you see is what you get and I don’t and won’t change that for anybody.
Now, as far as the new challenge is concerned, I have made a deal with myself and I am going to prove the doctor’s and some people’s opinions wrong. I have set out to lose 100 pounds by July 1st. Now, I am sure many of you are thinking WOW, that is quite a goal…and you would be correct! I have discussed it with my trainer and I know I can do it. I am in such a different place in my life than I was a year ago. I have such an amazing support system through family and friends that I can’t help but win this challenge.
I am however going to ask something of you,my readers…I am going to need your words of encouragement. Reading your words will not only help me through the days of wanting chocolate chip cookies, but they will help hold me accountable. I will be giving daily updates, as well as weekly video testaments and as a special bonus…there will be monthly video interviews with my trainer! That is correct, you will meet the man behind my “Hell In A Cell” moments and sincere butt whoopins!
This is going to be a great adventure for me. I am so looking forward to proving my doctor wrong because he seriously told me that I wouldn’t be able to do this…well, there is nothing like telling me that I can’t do something to get me in gear to prove you wrong! I will be sharing everything with you and I mean everything. I believe that in order for people to want to know your story or believe in you, you have to be completely honest and up front with them from the beginning. I will be posting my starting weight, inches, and a before photo. This is a very personal issue and I am hoping that by sharing it with you, I could possibly motivate and inspire others. I am very excited to get it all started! The first posting will be on Wednesday with all of my stats and the videos will be on Thursdays. I want to make sure that I stay consistent, so I thought it would be a good idea to assign days as my to help hold me accountable…little deadlines if you will :0)
So, there it is…the personal challenge that will be underway starting September 9th, 2009. If I have not lost my 100 pounds by July 1st, 2010, then I will talk to a doctor about the steps towards weight loss surgery. I truly believe that if after 10 full months of hard work, dedication, and sweat and I haven’t met my goal, then I do in fact need help in getting my weight off so I can live a very long, active, and healthy life. This is why I have to do it and I know that if I believe in myself and rely on the support group that surrounds me, then there is nothing that can keep me from completing this challenge.
Now, there are going to be days that I want to quit and that I am going to be crying telling myself that it isn’t going to happen, but that is all part of the journey. Life is hard and full of things that make us push ourselves to limits that we didn’t even know we had. Nothing is ever easy unless it has been hard at first. This is going to push me to places within myself that I am sure I didn’t know I had, but that is what is going to get me to that end result of no more knee pain. That is what it is all for!
I hope you will join me on this incredible journey as I test and push myself to the ultimate goal…losing 100 pounds!
I will be back on Wednesday with all of the stats and recap of day 1…this is going to be awesome!
And as always, I leave you with this thought…”It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”"
~Ralph Waldo Emerson