The Will to Win

The will to win, the desire to succeed, 

the urge to reach your full potential... 

these are the keys that will 

unlock the door to 

personal excellence.

                                              Confucius

I spoke to both my girls a couple of days ago on Facetime and both remarked that they could really begin to see a difference in my face and neck.  I'm seeing it too. The scales aren't down anymore but everything is changing.  The new sized clothes that were wearable but snug a week ago are loose today.  I see hanging skin, sigh, a new side effect I'm afraid, in my arms that was puffed up and full weeks ago.

So just for hee-haws I went back and found some pictures of me to share. Some, like the 2010 photo above were so hard for me to look at.  Wow did I look like that? Amazing how you ignore the fact of how big you are getting.  Perhaps that's why I hated having my picture taken.  I always had the camera in hand to take photos of others but hated them of me.

Here's the part of the photo I didn't want to show.  These are my girls, and look at me, I'm huge as a balloon.  The good thing is, even though right now I have tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat I know these days are gone.  I'll never have another photo taken where I look like this.  I remember getting around that day, and that was 5 years ago.  It was hard, I was tired.  No wonder.  With all this extra weight we as fat people don't move too much, it's too hard.

So onward and I'll end with the same quote I started with because it's so appropriate for how I'm feeling at this moment in time. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential.  These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.  Confucius was one smart cookie!