André R.
So much for getting started..
Jun 06, 2011
Reading back on my last blog post... I am both disapointed, and enlightened...it's been two years and I've done nothing but gain...
I was so ambitious.. so excited and determined, so ready for this change... but it never came. I worked hard at a lot in my life, but myself..my needs always took the backburner..
Now... looking back.. I'm not even half as motivated.. the intent is there.. I want it.. I just don't have it in me to do it and try again, and fail again... I barely have it in me to finish this blog properly now that I've started and realized just how damn lazy I've gotten..I can't hardly remember the last time I've walked anywhere.. I can however remember that I hacked and wheezed at some point...
Maybe tomorrow....
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I was so ambitious.. so excited and determined, so ready for this change... but it never came. I worked hard at a lot in my life, but myself..my needs always took the backburner..
Now... looking back.. I'm not even half as motivated.. the intent is there.. I want it.. I just don't have it in me to do it and try again, and fail again... I barely have it in me to finish this blog properly now that I've started and realized just how damn lazy I've gotten..I can't hardly remember the last time I've walked anywhere.. I can however remember that I hacked and wheezed at some point...
Maybe tomorrow....
An ode to getting started (and reasons why)
Apr 04, 2009
We can call this day 1, or we can call this day 6943 of my weight loss journey. Regardless, today is new. A new step in a new journey to a new me.
When I think back to my earliest recollection of being overweight, I am brought back to a day when I was in grade 3. Late in the school year, the weather outside turned beautifully sunny, so Mrs. S decided to have a break outside. Back then the cool thing to do was stop halfway down a slide, and wait for someone to come behind you and bump you down. Of course I wanted to be a part of this new 'fad', but when I reached the top of the slide, in an attempt to fit in, the girl in the middle of the slide yelled, and jumped off the slide. It was so devastating back then, to think that other kids my age were afraid of me. I had know idea that the public humiliation and ostracism would become the initial glove slap to what would be the war of my life: ME v.s. MY BODY.
Since then I've attempted a long line of unsuccessful weight-loss techniques. I've bought monthly gym memberships, annual gym memberships. I've tried Mince à Vie, Weight Watchers, Dietitians, Homeopathy, AB DVDs n Cher tapes, and Richard Simmons tapes, and starving, and stuffing, and running and walking and smoking and quitting........... All in hopes that one day when I get to the slide, that little girl will let me bump her down to the bottom, just as everyone else did.
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When I think back to my earliest recollection of being overweight, I am brought back to a day when I was in grade 3. Late in the school year, the weather outside turned beautifully sunny, so Mrs. S decided to have a break outside. Back then the cool thing to do was stop halfway down a slide, and wait for someone to come behind you and bump you down. Of course I wanted to be a part of this new 'fad', but when I reached the top of the slide, in an attempt to fit in, the girl in the middle of the slide yelled, and jumped off the slide. It was so devastating back then, to think that other kids my age were afraid of me. I had know idea that the public humiliation and ostracism would become the initial glove slap to what would be the war of my life: ME v.s. MY BODY.
Since then I've attempted a long line of unsuccessful weight-loss techniques. I've bought monthly gym memberships, annual gym memberships. I've tried Mince à Vie, Weight Watchers, Dietitians, Homeopathy, AB DVDs n Cher tapes, and Richard Simmons tapes, and starving, and stuffing, and running and walking and smoking and quitting........... All in hopes that one day when I get to the slide, that little girl will let me bump her down to the bottom, just as everyone else did.
