My name is Melissa…
December
16, 2014
Thoughts for the Week…
When we get to the point
in our life when we feel we need to do something about our weight, the first
thought that comes to mind is, “I need to workout.” We join a gym (maybe even
pay extra for a personal trainer), workout and lose weight, quit the gym because
we’ve met our goal and in a year we are back to where we started in the first
place. What went wrong? We didn’t treat the “illness”.
When I first started my sessions of Train Your Brain, Marty kept referring to
us as food addicts. I thought I was in the wrong place and that this class
wasn’t for me, because after all, I’m not addicted to food. Never in my life
had I ever thought of myself as a food addict. I was just overweight because I
wasn’t working out and I’m “big-boned”. But after 10 months of digging into the
reality of the who, the what, the when, the why and the how of eating, yes, “My
name is Melissa, and I am a food addict”. I have an illness that needs to be
taken care of or else I’ll continue the cycle of joining a gym, working out,
losing weight, quitting the gym because I met my goal, and gain all the weight
back again.
So how does this
“illness” become “wellness”? In an illness,
nobody knows the issues but “I”. And
sometimes the “I” doesn’t even know there is an illness. I didn’t! To transform
this food “illness” into “wellness”, we must talk to other people about our
problems to help us out. We all need to be listened to and we need to listen to
others. Thanks Marty for helping me realize I have an illness, but even more
thanks to you for helping me transform that illness into wellness. I’m learning
that this isn’t a 10-month cure…it’s for a lifetime.
Get
Moving!
- 15 minute AMRAP (as many rounds as possible)
- 10 push ups
- 10 push press
- 10 sit ups
- 10 jump squats
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