A Life Less Overweight

Like many of you I’m sure, I find the Biggest Loser to be so inspirational and motivational. I also find it extremely thought provoking. Today I was on the treadmill, doing my run (or building back up to it I should say) and I started thinking about that big kid, the 400-something one. I thought about my habits back in college, and how inactive I was all my life from kid to teen, until after college. Thank GOD all of the sudden I decided to go to the gym, because the path I was on wasn’t going to end up good. I really think that if I had just kept that holding pattern of being somewhat careful about what I was eating, but doing little or no exercise, then I was not only going to stay up where I was (my guess is 190, I never weighed myself), but I was probably going to start gaining as I got older. Luckily, I made the choice to start working out, which has made all the difference.

As I was thinking, I began thinking about how many times I used to make excuses for myself about why I couldn’t exercise. A lot of those excuses are the ones the people on BL make at the beginning of the show. I had an epiphany (which really is pretty obvious, but apparently not to me) that it really is 100% choice how you choose to live your life. Those people are choosing to be unhealthy. They are literally choosing food over life. When I am on that treadmill, and I opt out of running a half mile into it, I am CHOOSING to give up. I am completely in control of my body and mind and I make the choices that determine the outcome. Am I going to be tired sometimes? Sure. Are there times when I’ll do better than others? Definitely. But ultimately I know that it is my choice how far I want to push myself, how hard I am willing to work, how important it is to me to take care of myself to insure a fuller life later on.

I am going to make the right choices.