Living with obesity is a curse I wouldn’t wish on my cruelest of enemies. Everything we do is tiring and challenging. Difficulty sleeping through the night due to insomnia from sleep apnea or diabetes, the inability to move freely in our bathrooms and kitchens and hallways due to space, challenges putting on our clothes, or even finding clothes that fit properly, then going into society for our workdays. Each day, we receive the harshest of looks from utter strangers, and receive condescending judgments from many of our closest friends. Then we have to do it all over again. We have created this hell that we live in, and everyone, including us, knows it.
Daily, even moment to moment, we have decisions to make that can move us further into our hellish existence, or, blessedly away from it. The pervasive problem with obesity is us. We create it, with each caloric-based action we take…and it adds up, literally to an albatross around our neck.
Most of us would never willing put a loaded gun to our head, even in our darkest moments. Nor would we slip a noose around our necks, or drive our cars into a brick wall – all of which significantly reduce our chances our survival. But anyone reading this can admit to eating more than we need on a given day…and many of us know the pain of consuming massive quantities of food over and over and over. I have said numerous times, “How did this happen?!” and I have wondered to myself, “Where did 100 pounds of fat come from and I didn’t notice?” To many people out there, that seems ludicrous. However, with one third of the adult population being obese in the United States, there are nearly 50 MILLION Americans who can identify with those feelings.
What are our options? Who has the solution to our obesity? Where can we go to find the right diet, the right plan, the right doctor, to help us? Anyone who has successfully overcome obesity – whether losing 85 pounds or 385 pounds discovers that she is the reason for the obesity, and she is the solution. There are many ways to stop the path to an early grave…gastric surgery, lapband surgery, low-calorie diets, exercise and multiple variations within each option. However, the bottom line is this – to overcome obesity in our lives we must metabolize more calories than we consume, daily.
Is this a simple thing to do? Yes. Is it an easy act to accomplish? No. To decide this one thing…repeatedly…is the hardest thing for us to conquer. The good news is, once we begin to take back our lives, one meal, one bite, one day at a time, it does get easier. One successful choice leads to a tasty, healthy meal. A few balanced, proportioned meals fill out an entire day. The decision to walk one flight of stairs each day builds up to two flights per day by the end of the month.
Obesity destroys our lives by reducing our life span and making our days emotionally and physically difficult. When we decide to overcome our obesity – when we truly decide…we make another choice.
I am proud to say I changed. It was the best decision of my life - and it undoubtedly gave me many years of life to live. You can change too. I guarantee it.
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