Kind of.
I don’t know.
Don’t throw things at me.
Maintenance is hard….ish.
I mean once you enter maintenance you lose all your
cheerleaders. Long gone are the days where I would post my weekly weight loss only
to receive tons of positive feedback. Or the days where I would post about a
weight gain and still receive tons of positive feedback. People love the weight
loss story- the triumphs and setbacks, the struggles and the victories. It’s
great to watch for so many reasons. It’s why people love the Biggest Loser and
reading weight loss stories in magazines. It’s fascinating and motivating.
But then you hit your ‘goal weight’, the finish line is
crossed, and then….nothing new to report. I mean then it just becomes ‘normal
life’ and that is quite boring, in comparison. I mean really, I am not sure how
anyone not of blood relation to me can stand reading this blog. Trust me, I try
to write about topics that are important to me and I try to make my posts
meaningful but that is easier said than done. And instead I end up writing
fluff, short updates on training or my day to day life and I know that is not
everyone’s cup of tea. Some days it isn’t even mine…
My point is this that after goal, you lose your niche, your
story and in my case you lose direction. I started out as a weight loss blogger
and then I lost the weight, what else is there left to talk about. I can talk
about my life but that seems boring.
That is how I would describe maintenance. Not hard but
boring.
You see, for me, maintenance involves a few different things
-being active (which I love)
-eating really great meals (most days) based around a whole
foods plant based diet (which I also love)
-creating balance (which in turn keeps me happy and I love
that)
Yes, doing these things does take a little extra time and
effort. I have to meal plan and schedule out my workouts/training
sessions/running plan. I have to make sure I wash all my gym clothes and pack
up my lunch. But that stuff, that’s kind of just normal life. Boring and
normal.
I find that in this phase I often forget what hard really was. And to me,
my present life, isn’t it. Yeah, I would definitely say that maintenance is
less glamorous than weight loss mode but hard?
Hard was weighing almost 300 pounds. And nothing will ever
come close to that. Not weight loss, not maintenance. Hard was not being able
to do anything, or at least anything easily. Hard was being in pain all of the
time. Hard was humiliation from feeling judged, criticized. Hard was feeling
that people were literally disgusted by you. Hard was not having control and
watching your life spiral into nothingness all because of your weight. That was
hard. Unbelievably hard.
In comparison, everything since that first day of my weight
loss story back in February 2011 has been easy/easier. And I need to remember
that. I chose that life back then and that life sucked. I choose this life now
and it is freaking awesome. So my question is then…what the heck is so hard
about awesome???
Remember that, Dacia!
Love and hugs,
Dacia
xoxoxox
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