It was the dawn of a new day because I finally gained a confidence in myself; I knew that I knew, in the deepest part of my knower that I would NEVER again gain an incredible amount of weight, EVER!! To maintain a healthy lifestyle the rest of my life, I had to make life changes, ones that I could maintain for the rest of my life. Heard it a thousand times, but for some reason, at 30 I knew it was what I had to do. I began to slowly change my thought pattern as well. Instead of kicking myself from here to next week over a 10, even 20 pound gain, I could stop the gain right there. Stop and get back into control right then...not in two months and 50 pounds later!
Again, to someone reading this who has never known the agony yo-yo dieter lives through, all of the above sounds like the most obvious and "duh" sort of statements, I'm sure! "Of course you should stop at a 10 pound gain, you goof ball!" or "have a little self control you glutton, just stop eating!" I’ve heard it all before from thin folk who have no idea the head trip a yo-yo dieter goes on. If it were just that easy, why in the world do you think everyone is not thin? Why is dieting a multi billion dollar industry in the US alone? If it was so simple, and all you had to do was stop your out of control eating, don't you think that one of the wealthiest, most prominent figures in our recent history would have just done that...years ago? Instead, Oprah Winfrey, the queen of the yo-yo dieters, has spent most her adult life going up one hill and down, and up...you get the idea. If anyone could lose weight once and for all and just be done with this, don't you think Oprah would have been the one to conquer it once and for all? I'm just saying, it ain't that easy. Until you have been that person, and walked a mile in our big pants and fat clothes, before you sit on your skinny throne and judge, you really know not what you think you do!
