I told someone recently "I spend 26 years of my life living unhealthy, now I will spend the next 26 years being healthy". I am committed to do that, whether that means I am inconveniencing myself (or sometimes others). This so far has been about the weight, cuz lets face it, I need to lose some and when those pounds melt away I get tunnel vision. This morning I realized, again, its not about the weight (although I enjoy losing it), its about being healthy, setting a good example, and treating my body as the temple it is. That's why I'm doing this post, not to lose weight and brag about it, so people can see my journey and hold me accountable as well as may be feel encouraged in the same way. My friend Elizabeth said, "I don't care if it takes me 3 years, I'm going to get this right this time." That stuck with me because she's right, it doesn't how matter how long it takes if you're willing to spend the rest of you life on that track. It might take me a year before I feel comfortable, and I'm sure I'll make mistakes the rest of my life, but I have the rest of my life to live it right.
I once told someone that people who change in an instant shouldn't be trusted because they didn't earn it. People who crawl through the desert to find water are real; they've earned it, they appreciate it, and they don't take it for granted. People who sit around and wait for it to rain in the desert are lazy and will probably die waiting or if they do get a drop of rain they wait around for the next one. They spend their whole life sitting in one place waiting for change to come instead of discovering it themselves.
To those people (who I used to be) I say to you: Be adventurous, who knows what you'll discover along the way through the desert.
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