Wellness and Fitness are Worthy Goals

I have been overweight my entire life, although when I look back on my high schools days, and even when I got married, at least I wasn’t morbidly obese.

  • Over the years, I can count the number of times that I have lost a significant amount of weight.

My first year of teaching, I lost forty pounds. When I was in the process of getting a divorce, I lost forty pounds again. Years later, I was engaged to be married, and the true love of my life went missing in a horrible storm with flooding, eventually to be declared dead by the courts. Now that he’s been gone for a decade, I am once again fat. My goals have never been for wellness and fitness. Now, though, I am counting non-scale victories. Can I walk a little farther because of my workout plans and workout classes? Victory. Has my nutritional counseling helped me choose a salad over fast food? Victory. Do I actually use the gym membership I got with a membership discount offered through our corporate wellness programs? Victory. Is my personal trainer helping me stay on track, and does my personal fitness training take precedence in my life? Big victory. I have come to the decision that, yes, I need to lose weight, but wellness and fitness are also worthy goals. Do morbidly obese people enjoy wellness and fitness? No, but I am no longer waiting for my weight to be acceptable to begin my workout classes or go to the yoga studio or hire a personal trainer. I am doing those things now, with the goal in mind that I will not only lose weight, but I will also use my workout program and nutritional program to help me be a better me. I am on my way!

 

 

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