The last thing a woman is going to do is wake up in the morning and suddenly decide to get fat, (unless she is trying to hide and change her identity for some mysterious reason). Actually, it just kind of sneaks up on you a little at a time until it is too late. I remember many times cursing my dryer for shrinking my new jeans that I had only worn a couple of times. Something that was even more irritating than the shrinking dryer was going to the store to shop for more jeans and finding out the sizes had suddenly changed. My size just didn’t fit anymore. Something had to be wrong, because I have worn this size forever! Little things like that happen over time until one day you look in the mirror and there is a fat person looking back! Once the fat person is looking at you in the mirror, it is simply too late to worry if your gaining weight, because obviously you have been gaining it for a while.
Not only do you get fat, but you get tired and weary right along with getting wider and wider. It gets harder to haul your big butt up the steps, down the street to the mailbox and chairs begin to get uncomfortable. You lose all interest in things you once loved and the phrase leaving the lights out bring on a whole new meaning. Once this happens, the fad diets begin and you lose some weight and get back down into your favorite jeans that dryer hadn’t shrunk after all! A few months later and you’re looking in the mirror and the fat person has returned looking back at you. And guess what? She looks even fatter than she did the last time she showed up! This is when the new fad diet begins. It turns into a yo-yo fad diet, eat the way you did, and find a fat person in your mirror cycle.
Sooner or later, if you’re smart, you will suddenly realize that fad diets are the devil and if you want to lose the fat person in the mirror, you have to make some serious changes. I am at this point in my life and for the last five and a half months, I have been making necessary changes to my diet. However, the fat person in the mirror is still there (although she is not quite as fat). It seems as though the skinny me appears much slower than the fat person appears. I keep looking for the skinny person to show up in the mirror, but apparently my mirror is a little stubborn.
Soon, I will finish the journey of learning to eat the right foods, in the right amount and it will be a new pattern of life, a new way of life. Since I waited too long to wake up to the fat person in the mirror, my health has suffered and now I am in for a new journey. The gastric by-pass is now a necessity. Learning the new lifestyle has insured that once the fat person leaves the mirror this time, she won’t come back! I will celebrate her demise! I have learned though, and I will celebrate with a stalk of celery or an apple instead of a piece of chocolate cake!
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