Wed, Nov-26-03, 10:46
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Senior Member
Posts: 3,060
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 338/253/210
BF:
Progress: 66%
Location: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
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Sometimes, it's just that way, but you have to look to the longterm. Like you, I sometimes get discouraged about losing 34 pounds and still being fat. Not just fat, but morbidly, dangerously obese. When I lose another 50, I'll still be fat. That's the reality.
But then I think of the prize, and the mountain we 100+ people must climb to put our hands on that prize. I think that yeah, I'd like to be further along than I am now -- I'd love to be where you are -- but I can't get there in a day or a month or even a year.
I wrote in my journal a few days ago about the quest for average. I'd love to just be average. I'm looking forward to taking the "mordbid" out from in front of my personal "obesity." And I know that there ain't no magic and there ain't no easy way, but that determination and our own spirits are what we have to take us there. Those are kind of magic in and of themselves, if you think about it. People who have always been thin have no idea what people like TDCers go through just to get what they have. But like any other great struggle, it makes us strong.
You've lost a lot of weight. You're doing the right thing. You're taking command of your life, and people should applaud you for it. You should consider yourself an amazing person because you have this difficult demon in your life, and you've got it under control.
Fat girl? Maybe outwardly, maybe at the moment. But a moment is just a moment, and you are a million things besides fat. Fat can't define you unless you choose to let it. The fact that you're here says that you have decided that it cannot define you. Bravo.
You just have to keep that faith.
-Scott
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