What I Have Learned

2011

I wrote the core of these a few years ago and have added to them over time.

I have learned

1. It is never too late, nor have I ever gone so far, that I can't stop and start over.
2. Screwing up, even royally, does not make me a failure. I just makes me human.
3. Fat, ugly, stupid and lazy are NOT synonyms!
4. There are others on this journey with me. They all have lessons to teach. It is up to me to listen well enough to learn.
5. Disappointment is rarely fatal. Discouragement does not have to be a permanent condition.
6. No one can, or will, advocate for me as well as I can. So I need to do it.
7. Even the most seemingly perfect among us have their problems. Those problems are as real and insurmountable to them as mine are to me.
8. There is no more devastating fear than being afraid to hope.
9. Stepping on the scale is simply a snapshot of how things stand at this moment. There is no judgement in the number. It is just a number.
10. The first bite tastes the same as the second bite. And after the third, I don't taste it at all. So why not be satisfied with one or two really well tasted bites?
11. I do not actually get rid of weight - it is always lying in wait hoping to find me when I am not looking.
12. Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.