I'm in control of this...

During one of my Weight Watcher classes, I met this young girl that is a new member. Her first week she joined, she came back and had a weight gain. How frustrating is that?! Her second week, she lost one pound. Equally frustating! This young girl stood at my scale and cried. She had faced a lot over the week (loss of job and other stresses) so no wonder she was having "scale crisis" I searched my mind and heart to try and give her the best answer, to find some way to help her through this slump that she was in. In all honesty, all I wanted to do was hug her and give her my phone number and tell her to call me anytime!! I gave her the best advice I thought of. I remembered what my life looked like right before I joined Weight Watchers. The two years leading up to me joining WW were very hard years for me. So much in my life had changed. It was probably some of the hardest two years I had gone through. And on top of that, my health was declining. I was dealing with high blood pressure and borderline diabetic. I was tired all the time and had allowed my insecurities to keep me from doing things. I realized that many of the things in my life I had no control over. I couldn't control my relationships, my job or my responsibilites that I had. I could work at those things.. but never could I control them. When I joined WW, I realized this is something I had control over. I learned that I had control over the food, over my lifestyle, over the sitting on the couch doing nothing, over the late night snacking. I had control over the emotional eating binges. We seem to think we don't. We seem to think those things control us. But in all reality, it doesn't. We allow it too.. we sorta give in to those things. So here's what I told this young lady; your life might not look like you want it too. You don't have control over your job and the other things that might come your way. But you can have total control over getting healthy. And once you realize this, you will feel so strong on the inside! You will feel like you can accomplish anything! Your insecurites won't be able to hold you back because you'll be bigger than them. I wanted to share this with you. I want you to remember that, if you put your mind to this, you can conquer it. I know, many of my blogs are about not quitting and conquering.. and it might get old. But that is something I hold on to. If you never quit, you'll never go backwards. You have total control over your eating! Stop allowing excuses to cause you to quit or to not even start! Stop making excuses as to why you can't get up and move around. The time is right when you finally just take control. I hope my new friend realizes she can do it too!!