Sit back and ask yourself why you want to lose weight? When I asked myself that question I am ashamed to say it was out of vanity. I wanted to become some great beauty that walked down the street hearing mutterings about how I looked amazing after having four children. After years of my husband telling me that vanity is not a goal and only a concrete goal will give the tool to accomplish, I finally figured out what he was trying to say. Vain aspirations will achieve vain results.
My desire to be something or someone else was not a goal. Fitting into a sexy little black dress is a short term goal that will yield short term results. It was time to kill the desire to be a beauty queen and find a real goal to hang my dieting cap on. I’ve been ready to give a good licking to a beauty queen anyway so why not the false image of what I would become if I only lost thirty pounds? While I was convinced I could nab Brad Pitt or achieve world peace if only I were thinner, my goals were abstract. Where there is no vision the people perish. Taking that same principle, where there is no concrete goal and work there will be no concrete results.
Beauty does not equal a thin body. A thin body does not equal success. I think we need to re-evaluate our math skills. Achieving beauty is a vain goal that will only punish us with no results, short term results or feelings of inadequacy. We can be our own worst enemy in the game of beauty and weight loss.
I encourage you to squash vain goals and aspirations. Do not lose weight because you think your neighbors will get jealous. Do not lose weight to make yourself feel better by wearing a smaller size. Lose weight because it is a gift to you. Examine your heart and find the real reasons you want to lose weight and how those reasons may be your stumbling block. Be a better you not by being a smaller you but a smarter more self aware you…who eats green salads and drinks protein shakes.
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