There is 28% less of me than there was 21 months ago. I set a goal in
January 2011 to lose 50 pounds by my 50th birthday and I reached my goal
with a few weeks to spare. I was so fortunate that my company offered
at-work Weight Watchers
meetings because I don't know that I ever would have lost weight without
them. I had been planning to lose weight for 10 years. For 10 years I
talked about losing weight but when I turned that talk into action I
would get frustrated and go back to the
old habits that had packed on the pounds. Weight Watchers changed that.
They taught me the right action to take to change those old habits and
lose the pounds that had been weighing me down physically and
emotionally. I hope my weight loss story will inspire others and I hope
writing about that story will inspire me to keep those pounds off.
Five Minute Friday is a writing event that has writers spending five minutes writing on the same topic and then sharing them at http://katemotaung.com/five-minute-friday/ . This week's word is Time. Sometimes time feels like this, like we are in it. Standing inside it, watching life pass by. It is so easy to get stuck in a time - in our pain, in our hurt. We hear the ache tick away in our head like a giant clock. Time, instead, is a gift. More time with family, more time to accomplish goals, more time to see the world. When you are hurting, it seems like time takes forever. One day turns into another day, turns into another day. When we hate a job, the five days of time that make up a work week seem to go on forever. But those five days are also a gift. Because these days, a job is not a guarantee. I want to see time as gift, not as a chore. I want to be on the other side of it, wishing there was more of it. Making the most of every hour, minute, and second instead of
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