I stole this off of Ben Davis's blog... When I don't feel like running or dieting anymore, I read his blog and it helps to motivate me. I've been reading his blog a lot lately and I started at the beginning a few months ago (there are a lot of posts) and I've made it up to Dec 14, 2010. I came across this really motivation post... Enjoy.
December 14, 2010 About a week after I was on the Today Show back in October, I got a FedEx package in the mail. I knew they were just returning my “before jeans” to me so I never bothered to open it. But today I did and it brought back a lot of memories. You see, these jeans aren’t just my before-jeans. These jeans were my before-before-jeans. I actually got too big for these jeans (size 48) and decided that rather than face the reality of moving up to size 50, I would just start wearing sweatpants and windpants. Sweatpants come in nice little letter sizes such as XXXL and XXXXL. No numbers to remind you just how out of control your life has gotten. Now I sit comfortably in my size 36 jeans and occasionally I break out these 48s to look at and remember that even though bad food tastes great or that sometimes it might be more fun to not run, it’s not worth going back. Not worth going back to the place where I had to turn sideways to fit in doors or I had to say no to the booth the hostess tried to sit me in because it hurt my stomach to be smashed into a table. I really love sitting in booths, and it’s not something I plan on giving up. |
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