“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
– Maya Angelou
The journey to get to a healthy goal weight comes with its share of ups and downs and highs and lows. It isn’t “easy” all the time for anyone, but it’s a journey with so many benefits that reach into every aspect of our lives that we all know it’s well worth the effort. Lasting change doesn’t happen over night and it takes persistence and commitment. The commitment is to yourself to get up each morning and treat it as the fresh, new start that it is and to persist, to keep doing the best you can in every given situation, even when you think it isn’t good enough. No one is perfect 24/7 and thank goodness we don’t have to be to find success!!!!!
The people who have gotten to a healthy goal weight and are maintaining it….those people who have occasionally sat next to you in your WW meeting and you silently wondered “What is she doing here?????”, yes them….They will be first ones to tell you that they are not always perfect but they NEVER QUIT. THEY NEVER QUIT! That’s why they still come to the WW meetings on a regular basis, looking all healthy like the beautiful butterflies in the above picture. And just like the butterfly, they have struggled, learned, grown and adapted to a lifestyle that supports their healthy weight. They have put in effort to learn to stop beating themselves up for every unhealthy choice they make and they get right back to their healthy style after occasions when they over-indulge.
I love the above quote because I think all too often we look at other people’s situations (in all of life) and think how easy it must be for them or how “lucky” they are, but the fact is, everyone has challenges and everyone is working on something in their lives. Our challenge happens to be gaining and maintaining control over our eating and although it’s not easy, I could think of many challenges that would be far worse. Gaining control our health FEELS GREAT and empowers us to take control in all areas of our life and that is a beauty well worth achieving!!!
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