If you've ever read anything from the fat acceptance people, you may have read something that looks like this..."A "healthy lifestyle" is still a diet, it's restrictive, you'll gain your weight back so why bother, just accept your fat blah blah blah..."
Carrying around a negative attitude of that size must be exhausting, but I digress. Sure, sometimes I do have to tell myself no to a second helping at dinner when I feel like I still want to keep eating and no, I can't allow myself to buy peanut M&Ms because they are a trigger for me.
But the flip side to that is the wonderful feeling of freedom that comes from no longer being a slave to overeating, a prisoner to a morbidly obese body. Case in point...
Carrying around a negative attitude of that size must be exhausting, but I digress. Sure, sometimes I do have to tell myself no to a second helping at dinner when I feel like I still want to keep eating and no, I can't allow myself to buy peanut M&Ms because they are a trigger for me.
But the flip side to that is the wonderful feeling of freedom that comes from no longer being a slave to overeating, a prisoner to a morbidly obese body. Case in point...
Last Sunday evening Rob and I were hanging around the house and I felt the urge to get out of the house for a walk or something. So off we went to Acworth Lake. I was immediately drawn to the playground, not having been on a swing for years. It was SO MUCH FUN!
Fat Andra would never have gotten off the couch to go the lake just to go for a walk, never mind attempting to get on a child's swing set at a playground. Freedom is the payoff for not keeping 2 pound bags of peanut M&Ms in the couch cushions. I made the right choice, don't you think?
Fat Andra would never have gotten off the couch to go the lake just to go for a walk, never mind attempting to get on a child's swing set at a playground. Freedom is the payoff for not keeping 2 pound bags of peanut M&Ms in the couch cushions. I made the right choice, don't you think?