Secrets of a Former Fat Girl
5Jun2007 Filed under: Randomness Author: LauraI was reading an article in my Health magazine the other day about a new book called Secrets of a Former Fat Girl. It looked really interesting – part of the article is available online right here, and it has several success stories about women who have lost substantial amounts of weight and kept it off. One of them in particular that I found inspiring was the story of a woman who had dieted again and again – with Weight Watchers, no less – and never stuck with it. I guess something finally clicked for her, and she finally DID stick with it, and lost a hundred pounds. I love reading success stories about women who seem really similar to me – I don’t dig at all on the stories about women who finally “lost that last twenty pounds…” Their boo-hoo-hoo before weight is always my GOAL weight!
The author had some secrets for The “After” Life, one of which really stood out for me:
THINK: IT’S NOT AN OPTION. As in, “It’s not an option to quit my workout or to have another slice of pizza.” Simple as it sounds, this little mantra helped me shut off a whole world of possibility, a world where giving up and pigging out were not just acceptable, but the norm.
I think that might work for me. I’ve relied on several mantras to keep me going throughout the day, every day. It’s not easy raising four little toddlers, you know. Soooo often I tell myself, just do it. Just do it. Just do it! Just like the Nike commercial. I’m dead-assed tired, but the kids need lunch. The last thing in the world I want to do is get up and make four healthy little meals. Just do it, Laura. Just throw in a load of clothes. Just clean that bathroom. In ten minutes, this will be over. That’s another one I tell myself all the time. “Just ten minutes.” In ten minutes, we’ll be out of this car and I won’t have to listen to any more whining, so smile and be happy and don’t scream at everyone.
Maybe if I add, “It’s not an option,” to my day, I can make a big change in my life.
posted by Laura at 9:50 PM 
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10:23 PM
Don’t be so quick to judge. I’m sure you know how it feels…
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I wish you tons of luck.
1:04 PM
I’ve lost over 80 lbs so far,and have 60ish more to go. I almost did it last time (lost over 100 lbs but then got off track and gained it all back and more) – this time, that switch in my head I think has clicked. It’s all the way – health first!!! doesn’t matter what size I end up being.
I have rules I set for myself – I look it as “reparenting” myself — how do I want my daughter to eat, what do I want for her – and then I apply the same philosophy to myself. (Luckily I was aware of my health issues before adopting my duaghter – and never made her finish her plate, always had fresh fruit and veggies around, no sugar before she was 3 and now she doesn’t even like icing on cakes that much, and she is active and almost a black in karate, and very trim and fit)
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