Sometimes it just takes a little reminder.......

Big changes in your life, take small steps, small changes, and most of all the want or need to do it. I have been in a rut with my weight loss the past 5-6 weeks. I have lost 70 pounds in the last 6 months, 65 of which was in the first 5 months. The last 5-6 weeks I have only lost 5 pounds! I am discouraged with myself, I was not feeling that motivated to continue at the pace I was going. It is hot out, I am working a lot, and I am tired! I have a list of excuses, I will work out tomorrow morning instead of tonight, I will go to the gym right after work, and the list goes on and on. I started this weight loss journey or should I say “Life Style Change” because I was not happy at the way I looked in or out of clothes! I hated getting my picture taken because I would see what I really looked like, I was morbidly obese! I needed to do something. For me to realize that I needed to get back on track, a reminder needed to happen in my life, to show me what and why I am doing something. My reminder came today in an email from my dad, to me and my family. In the subject line all it said was “Kathie”, when I got it I was surprised and wondered to myself what is my dad sending with my name as the subject?? I opened the email and it has an attachment with it and he wrote “WOW...THIS SHOWS YOU HOW MUCH WEIGHT KATHIE HAS LOST...THIS IS THE BEFORE PICTURE...NEED TO GET AN AFTER....KEEP IT UP”. So I opened the attachment and it was photo of my sister Diane, my daughter Maranda and me sitting around a table at a party about 2 or 3 years ago. All I could see was me, I was huge. At that point I realized that I have come a long way and I am on my way to looking the best I have in years. I realized this is why I started my “Lifestyle Change” this is why I have lost 70 pounds to date, and this is exactly why I will continue to lose another 70 or more pounds, I am doing this because I want to be healthy, because I want to feel good about myself and I want to be ok when someone takes a camera out. I don’t want to be the one hiding behind the lens when pictures are being taken and I don’t want to be just taking the photo’s I want to be in them, by getting in front of the camera. The email that was sent to me today was a subtle reminder of where I was and where I will never be again. It gave me the motivation to become the motivated, neurotic work out fiend that I was when I started this journey and what I will do to continue it. It only takes small changes in your life to make a big change; this was mine for this week, seeing a picture of me at my highest weight and doing something about it 6 months ago and now continuing it so I can get to my healthiest self I possibly can! Thanks Dad for sending me that reminder today, I needed it!!