May 16, 2012 - The Wishing Well

Yes, it's Wednesday and we are approaching the half-way mark - YEA! Two days of back to back water aerobics and I am really feeling the effects. I LOVE not sweating and getting such a GREAT workout. I'm just saying - the water resistance kicks my boo-tee. :) I am purchasing my own equipment to use at the pool in our complex as well as a group of us from work will also meet at a friend's house 1-2 days a week and challenge each other in the water. And, it's great fun too! Who knew water noodles could be such a useful tool??? :) For those of you who do not know me well, from another state or country (yes, we have people in our family from around the world now) I hear so many people "wishing" they could lose weight or get healthy. And, I so understand! For such a long time, I blamed my unhealthy life style and 65 extra pounds on everyone and anyone other than myself. YES I DID! And then, so as to not take responsibility, I could always make a joke and proclaim, "I WISH I could lose some weight." I laughed and confessed for years, but was never serious enough to really look at my health plan and realize I MADE ALL THE DECISIONS - I COOKED ALL THE FOOD - I LIVED FROM ONE MEAL TO THE NEXT. But, I continued to "stop by the wishing well" WHEN I needed my pants to zip, WHEN I went for a doctor's visit, WHEN everyone was getting in the pool and I was embarrassed. And how about this........it was never MY fault. Childhood eating patterns...............life circumstances...............love of cooking......................having "no other" vices in my life as I was a Christian. The wishing well never seemed to free me from the cell of obesity in which I was locked. But one day, I came face to face with the truth that the "wishing well" was just a myth and if I didn't turn my life around - I would eventually eat my way into a disease-filled death. NO, NO, AND NO! I had to determine the truth and stare it in the face and be more determined to live than okay with obesity. My doctors continued to say, "if you could lose just 5-10 pounds..........." Ever heard that? And I would visit the wishing well. They would say, "you can back off some of the meds if you could lose just FIVE pounds." And I would visit the wishing well. When we are younger, we MAY get away with some extra weight, but all that fat inside our veins DOES TAKE IT'S TOLL and we never see it. That's why heart disease is sometimes called the "silent killer." I don't know about you - but I don't want some "silent killer" pushing me to the LIE, which is the wishing well. I want to walk in the TRUTH and LIGHT and live as long as God has planned for me in great health serving him with this body at optimal performance level! Preach, sista! Stop visiting the wishing well and throwing your pennies into the water. Instead, make the LIFE DETERMINATION to choose health and fight everyday, as I and others do, together, to never visit the wishing well again. You can do it! We can do it together. Believing God for each of us! PK PS - Crissy said she went to Red Robin the other day to eat with her husband and they wrapped her hamburger in a huge lettuce leaf. YEA!!!! I stopped going because of the french fries that sucked me in (they are fabbbbb) - but with a lettuce leaf and apples instead of fries - freedom again!!!! That's what I'm taking about. :)