Had my brother, Chip, spend the night yesterday and as we started to talk about our weight loss (he is still loosing - while I am holding), I thought about how this applies to us all. My husband asked Chip if he ever thought he would be small again. We both laughed and said we had come in agreement that we were always going to be fat. We'd loose a little for about a month, hit a stall (with no one to help us through it) eat to comfort the fact that we had failed again and gain all the weight back plus 5. We laughed and said that is what we accepted as "normal" and never really felt we could do anything else. In fact, we had both given up totally. HCG for us was a "last attempt" and questionable, at best, in my mind. After trying every imaginable diet, diet pill, shots, etc.......AND going to a clinic that wanted to charge me 1600$ to loose 30 pounds - I had really just GIVEN up.
BUT......Chip and I fought through those first couple of weeks, called each other daily (sometimes more than once a day) to share our weight loss, new discoveries, and issues. And God gave us the courage to face the next day and keep going one step at a time. Today - we look back to Jan 24th and realize that others CAN do this. If we can.........anybody can. :) Chip didn't register on the scales for weeks and was in a size 54 pants. Now he is close to a size 40 and said, "I feel better than I ever have." WOW! And all this without surgery - who can conceive that? :)
One of our fam reached goal weight this week and one who is working on 100 pounds hit 50 this morning. She said, "I can see the end in sight." Her first round of drops and HCG launch was close to Easter. Give a shout out - that's 50 pounds in four months. YEA! And she feels so good.
Encouragement to us all - we need one another for a long time to keep us moving forward. Our habits of embracing lies don't just float away over night. I still have not come to the FULL realization that I'm in a new body. (just being honest) I still, sometimes, think like an obese woman. I am much better - but always want to keep in focus health, whole foods, helping others, refueling as opposed to just eating, and the extreme benefits of water.
Keep going - your stories of victory bring tears to my eyes. I felt that we all needed to stop this morning and really thank the Lord for his help - and stop and thank the Lord for each other's voice and encouragement as we LIVE a life as free people and not obese people. :)
Have a great day - talk again on Monday - unless you're coming to my house tomorrow night. PK
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