Posted by SusySedano
| July 18, 2011
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This week we celebrate Deb our Member of the Week. Deb joined LIVESTRONG.COM on July 3, 2009 and since that time has lost 125 pounds. Deb is truly an inspiration and testament that if you put your mind to something it can be done. Deb has tracked her food, exercised daily, and created a new life for herself by being diligent and committed.
Like many of you, I stumbled somehow onto LIVESTRONG.COM when I weighed about 251 pounds in July 2009. I had very little hope of losing weight then, and had not been trying. But somehow that day, the journals of 2 women, one who started at 400 and lost 200 pounds, and another who started at 335 and lost 100, these 2 women really inspired me. I guess I thought, “Ok, you are not the fattest person in the world! If they can try, you can try.”
I made no promises to myself, not even that I could do anything for a week. I just decided to be honest with myself. I wrote what I thought of as a confessional, “what makes me fat”, where I really faced what I did, how I lived.
I looked at what foods were really challenging, what foods were really contributing to me being overweight. And I also looked at what foods and habits I could KEEP because they were okay. I did not think I had to change everything. You don’t have to change everything either.
So many people are down on themselves for being fat. I never was down on myself. I do not believe people should feel guilty, or sinful, or less desirable, less loveable, less honorable or bad just because they are big. I feel it is somehow unhealthy to think of the body as ugly. I feel grateful, at any weight, to have a body. A body that moves, that can do things, that can pick up things, that can walk. Our bodies were not meant to sit all day. They were meant to move.
WHAT I DO: I exercise DAILY, never missed a day!
HOW I EAT: I ask myself "what do you need, body?" It tells me. After 2 years, I still use Tracking to guide me, but often I can key in on my body, and it tells me what foods it wants.
NOTE ABOUT LIVESTRONG FRIENDS: I welcome new friends who write something in their food diaries. That way I can learn about what's going on in your life & process, stay in touch; comment; help each other.
Congratulations Deb, keep it up you inspire us to make LIVESTRONG.COM better every day.
~Susy
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