Putting Weight Back On! Depression, Anger, Acceptance to get it off again!

I have been on a roll, losing, losing and losing weight. Getting healthy and increasing my running distance, time and pace. Then it happened, I got hurt, I got sick and I lost some willpower to stop snacking.

It was a success story in the making, all my friends and family watched on Twitter and Facebook as I got healthy, lost weight and was doing wonderful things in my life. Then God said, I need you to slow down just a bit, I asked why? His response as always, I have something in mind and I need you to slow down. I didn’t listen then it happened. He allowed events in my life to cause me to slow down. I hurt my knee, I got sick (after two years of not even having a cold), and I continued to eat like I was still exercising. Due to these events, I put some weight back on. I refused to weigh myself, but I had a doctor’s appointment and I knew they would weigh me. Sure enough, “Get on the scales please.” I didn’t look, I asked the nurse not to tell me the weight. I knew there was gain.  But as I was leaving the office, they gave me my workup sheet and there it was my weight.

13 POUNDS!   Let me say that again 13 POUNDS!

I was horrified, I went home and cried. I kept it to myself, and I ate through it. My biggest addiction, food, but I didn’t eat the bad, I ate the good, this helped, but not enough. I needed to get back on the road. I needed to be running everyday.

So I got angry, why did this happen, I still don’t know, other than God wanted me to slow down for his purpose. I let the anger go, He is in control and I didn’t listen. So I then accept my “break” and wait for Him to allow me to get back on the road.

I finally got rid of the sickness, the knee pain and hit the road. I have slowly brought myself back to my running distance before the injury. During this time, I get an opportunity to get more involved in my work, to learn my family business. I also get to continue to help others with their struggle of weight loss. I realize I must “Balance” God (I am going to church more, making new friends and getting more involved there), health (it’s not all about the gym and workouts), family & friends. I was pushing myself to run, run, run, and neglecting other things in my life, things God wanted me to experience as well as a healthy heart and life. 

Those 13 pounds will be gone soon as will the rest of the weigh I need to shed, but I will take it in stride as I allow myself to “live” my life too. 


Starting next week I am very excited to present the Forsyth County Go Red Women "The Fab Five" interviews. I will be doing a blog on each Lady involved in this Campaign of 2013.