Does any of this weight-loss stuff actually work?
For years you've dragged yourself to crack-of-dawn boot camps to hurt the fat away. You'd choke down a miracle fruit from middle earth if it would reduce your appetite.
This year, you own two health club memberships and an expired class-card to Total-Fit. You've invested years of time and money to make that darn fat disappear, but no matter how hard you've tried, the weight remains happy at home-on your belly.
While straddling hope and aggravation, you doubt whether it's even possible to lose 20 pounds.
No wonder you binged on pizza and cheese sticks at your niece's birthday party. You had to-there was nothing else to eat. Plus, everyone was eating it; you didn't want to be rude.
And last night, after you rubbed the cellulite dissolvent over your hips, you treated yourself to a sugarless ice cream sandwich... well, two sugarless ice cream sandwiches. You had to-you deserve something more interesting than the celery leaf soup you slurped for dinner.
Ugh is an understatement for your plight.
Should you just give up on the whole thing and go back to scarfing down those doughnuts before work? Yeah, you've thought about it.
Yet, you keep getting pulled back to what if?
What if I could wear a bikini on my next vacation to Punta Cana?
What if shopping for clothes wasn't such a downer?
What if I could show up at my high school reunion wearing the same dress size I wore in high school?
What if I could wake up excited, energized, and confident?
What if I could get through the day without feeling exhausted, old, and uninspired?
So far, you've gotten nowhere near a happy return for your investments, but you're not totally ready to jump off the "I give up" cliff.
Listen, my lady, you are about to receive your happy return for your investment. You're about to get the results you've intended.
You're much more than a body. You are a person with responsibilities and obligations to your work, family, and community.
You have personal interests and aversions. You have acquired a treasure of experiences, memories and dreams during your lifetime.
All of this plays a role in your weight-loss journey.
You want results that move you forward, not backward or sideways.