The One Thing More Important than the One's I Love?

... Food?

It's almost too painful to comprehend, let alone own the statement ...

Could it be possible?

from the book .. Stop Whining, and Get a Life by Larry Winget.

Chapter 8, page 90

"Fitness, Fatness, and More"

Larry is a Very "in your face" kind of guy.  I was introduced to him when I watched "Big Spender" on TLC.  Love the Show!!  Working on my Finances as well as my weight ...

and one day while in my Favorite store, Office Depot .. I noticed he had written a book .. "Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life" .. True Larry.

he says in this Chapter "People are Stupid" ... and he goes on to say, "First, let me explain what I mean by the word stupid.  If you do not know any better, then you are ignorant.  If you know better, then you are stupid.  Big difference. 

"We eat things we know are not good for us.  Things that make us fat, clog our arteries, raise our cholesterol, and lots of other harmful things ... Even after we are diagnosed with these problems and told exactly what not to eat and exactly what we should eat, we still eat the stuff that is bad for us.  Stuff that will eventually kill us.  Do you call that intelligent?  I hope not.

.... hmmm, Larry has a valid point "with" me.

... and then later he says within the Chapter .. "How can you look your family in the eye and tell them that a cigarette or the fettuccine alfredo is more important to you than they are?  Can you really do that?  You do it every time you light up and every times you pack on the fat .... You do not use words to say it; you use a fork or a pack of smokes, but the message is still very clear."

Ugggh, Say it ain't so!!  but as I evaluate My life choices ...

I loved a large slice of Chocolate Cake MORE than my Son?

A Large ice cream cone from Dairy Queen MORE than my Husband?

A Whopper Value Meal MORE than my Daughter?

Finding excuses to NOT exercise all Day  than my Entire Family?

Was it possible? ... I guess it was ... I'm Fat!

And I did it everytime I packed on the fat and as I allowed the fat to remain ....

I say I love them More than anything else on earth ... I can see myself crossing an Ocean if they were in trouble, on the otherside ... but do I really?

With each day that passes ... with every breath I take ... with every fattening, not good for me food I turn down, and with every step when I walk on the treadmill or through my neighborhood  .. I'm "choosing" to make my choices reflect that I Do love my Family MORE!!

well said!!

Yep, you are so right.  Every time we carry extra weight, we are risking our lives and we need to think bout the others in our life.

Here's to making healthier choices!!

have a great week.

This is a very good point

for me it comes down to, what do you want, not what do you love.  I ask myself "do you WANT to be slim more than you want chocolate cake."  My desire to be slimmer wins about 95% of the time, but once in a while the answer is "CAKE" and i think thats okay too as long as its just once in a while. After all, we're learning a new lifestyle skill and its probably not realistic to think that we'll never have cake again.  Thanks for your posts on my blog too.  HOpe you're having a great day.

Hi

Im from the support group Sisters In Christ, so I was clicking on blog I havent seen yet.  This is a great post.  And if I think, what if my sister looked at me and said that to my face?  It would break my heart!!  

So anyways, thanks for sharing, it was touching. 
Good luck this week,
emi

WOW!

I too am from your Sisters in Christ group.  HELLO!  :)

Thank you for sharing!  I found myself leaning into my computer while reading this, wanting to soak in all that you were writing!  I have seen that show, and he is a very in your face kind of guy.   Sometimes it's necessary to hear the raw truth!   What a great motivation. The TRUTH is the stuff that brings forth change.  The TRUTH is the stuff that soaks in and makes a difference!  Thank you for sharing this.  I am going to print this post and keep it in my notebook.    Good stuff!  :)

"the TRUTH shall set you free"!

Nice

I like the way you write, it's nice and today's post made me think. Thank you for sharing1

I like that!

It was an awesome post!  Good food for thought! Thanks!

You know.....

I was looking back and reading some of my posts annd comments and I noticed you made a comment about me being 175. that was me but it was 4 years ago!!  I am actually still 199.2

After I got to that 175 I got pregnant and had baby #6. I never let myself lose the baby weight. I was eating way too much fast food!

I will get there again though! Happy to be back under 200 again :)

love your blog's

hi there ,  just love all your blogs your not wrong in what you write ..  i'm going to check out and see if i can get that book over here it sounds good.  hope your well and your family and your journey to a slimmer you is going well.. take care & keep smiling, your e.p friend from oz .. sallie ...