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The Fat Bully

I contemplated writing or even sharing this with you.  Every January people make resolutions to lose more weight, eat less and exercise. I don’t make resolutions and I hate to feel like I am jumping on the band wagon. January, as I have shared before, is not the start of my new year but I would love for it to be the start of the new me.  I realize that I have to make small changes that I can stick with.

I dream of being a size 8 again but realize I don’t want to do any of what is required to get back to that size. I like to walk and have even started to enjoy running. It is the getting started and sticking with it that is hard. I awake most mornings with great intentions but somehow the couch calls me and I answer.  Breakfast turns into lunch which turns into the headache reminder. This finds me scrambling for a meal and punishing myself for it spending unnecessary money.

A few relatives like to constantly remind people that they are fat or overweight. I love it when they say”You should get surgery” or “Don’t you hate being fat”.  Of course! People love being fat, it is the best thing ever. What could be greater?

I remembered the story of  news anchor, Jennifer Livingston, who was fat bullied by a viewer.  I love her response to him. Check out the video below if you have never seen it.

How would you respond to a Fat Bully?

TIME to Get Back on the WAGON

I  have fallen off the wagon. I started running on one of the coldest days of January with the intent to run at least 3x’s per week but somewhere around the end of the month, I had lost all power. I went from 3 to 2; to 1; to a sporadic run/walk here and there while the kids were at practice to not at all. I was so ashamed that I did not tell people.

Yesterday, I went for a fitting to participate in a fashion show and almost cried as I looked at myself in the mirror. I screamed inside, how did I get to this point, what happened? Somehow I had fallen off the wagon and I truly felt it. I began to curse myself as I know better but where do I start.

Liposuction, Fasting, Grapefruit Diet, Atkins, Medifast, Weight Watchers- who knew there were so many options:) My mind instantly told me that I wanted a quick option but I was instantly reminded that I did not quickly fall off the wagon and that I needed a plan to get back on it.

I “googled” fall off the wagon to see what would appear. Many of the articles spoke to people struggling with Alcoholism but I found a blog written by Michelle Anderson, who is a fitness exp. Her words and the image  ” jumping up and beat-feeting it to the rest stop ahead where you can catch up to the wagon, eh?” put me in motion this morning. I was so focused on the fact that I had fallen and not on the fact that I could catch back up to it and get on.

Today, I am recommitted to my wagon and I hope you will join me on the journey or at least encourage me…

2 miles down at 8:30 AM:)