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My Weight Loss Journey
This article is in response to a writing prompt called “Write about a challenge and how you overcame it”
One day I woke up and realized I was obese. At my heaviest I was 380 lbs. I remember how miserable I was. I felt bad. I had very little energy and daily activities took a lot of work. I was so out of shape and in such bad health I could barely make it through an average day.
I do not remember what happened that caused me to make some radical changes in my life. I just remember that I was tired of feeling the way I did. I did not like who I saw in the mirror. I did not like how I felt that I was perceived by others.
I believe that I was in my late 40’s or early 50’s when I decided to make a change. I knew that I needed to eat less and exercise more. I needed to burn more calories than I consumed. I really did not know how I was going to do that so I joined the Planet Fitness gym.
I started going to Planet Fitness because their motto was that it is a No Judgement zone. That is right, bring your fat ass into the gym and thunder along on the tread mill and we will just ignore that you are doing that.
That is where I was at mentally. I was very self conscious about how I looked to myself and others. My desire to make some radical changes overcame that still small voice in my head.
