Fat No Longer

every time I eat, it’s like pulling a blanket over my head and crying until my energy to feel is gone. Every time I give in to eating, it’s me saying ‘I can’t’.

We are the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away. - G'kar

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."

Diets make you look good in clothes, exercising makes you look good naked.

Blessed are the cracked, for they are the ones who let in the light.

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. ~Dawna Markova

"The difference between "involvement" and "commitment" is like an eggs and ham breakfast. The chicken was "involved" - the pig was committed." – Unknown

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people around you wont feel insecure. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us: it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Nelson Mandella

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. - Robert Service

All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you’re not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you’re the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no’s become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly, AND YOU WILL THEM YES!” NIKE

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power" Seneca

I was told to clean my plate because there are starving kids in Africa. 25 years later I'm fat, and there are still starving kids in Africa.

"I've worked too hard to take orders from a cookie!"

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?"

Being fat is hard. Losing weight is hard. Maintaining your weight is hard. Pick your hard.

Eat/exercise for the body you want, not the body you have."

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. –Anonymous

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you. ~ Frank Crane