The original post below is from December 21, 2020. Today is August 11, 2025.
I was feeling tired today and disappointed that I’ve once again re-gained the weight I’d lost. I know that’s why my knees hurt and I get tired quickly.
It’s time to get back on the wagon and I hope by seeing how happy I was when I’d reached my Weight Watchers goal this day that I’ll feel motivated to make a few changes.
I reached a big goal today! I’m normal now, at least in size.
I’ve spent most of my adult life hoping, wishing, and making multiple attempts to reach “normal”. I always gave up. Not because it was too hard to eat healthy food or, because tracking what I ate became too tedious. I quit because I got impatient.
I’ve had success in accomplishing goals in the past. Some were easier to achieve than others and many took a lot of work and dedication. None of them, however; challenged my ability to stay motivated like losing weight has.
One of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to overcome is looking in the mirror and not getting discouraged. It’s hard to persevere when the first thing you see every morning is the consequences of your bad choices staring back at you.
While I was working on losing the weight, people would often say “this is a marathon, just be patient”. They were wrong. Not the part about being patient, that’s important, but their analogy was incorrect. Losing weight isn’t a marathon, it’s navigating a maze.
You walk into brick walls, take wrong turns, and have to continue trying to figure out the path that moves you forward. Time and patience alone won’t do it. Staring down that image in the mirror and vowing to keep going (even when you run into that proverbial brick wall) is the only thing that works. Knowing with everything in you that there is no going back to where you began – no matter how familiar that path might feel.
Time to Quilt 