My (longest standing) diet buddy Sandi is back at it again (YAY Sandi!) and has got me thinking about what helps me keep going.
I know it is not the idea of my target weight, although that is an exciting number to me! And, it is not that I am desperate to look good to catch a man (although I do enjoy looking good and have nothing against men)! LOL
The real prize to me will be the lifestyle I can have when I am fit and thin enough that I can wear what I want, do what I want, go where I want, live the way I want. I’m tired of being side-lined, and, of depressing myself with my lumpishness and my inability to participate.
Living the way I used to live (eating wrong and being a couch potato) was robbing me not only of life today - and friends, and doing things outdoors, and fun, and… etc. It was also robbing me of my future. Future life, future years, future possibilities.
Now that I can fit in an airline seat again, now that I can hike up a mountain or across a town when needed, now that I don’t have to sit out what others are doing, I have my life back and I’m getting more and more opportunities back every day.
That seems a small price to pay for the price of a happy long life doing the things I want to do. This is especially meaningful to me as I have a whole new career starting and expect to be very busy and do a lot of traveling over the next 20 plus years.
What is the prize you have your eye on? Or what keeps you going?
