SOS. I tried to go it alone but I need your help.
I began this road to healthy back in January. The beginning of my journey was pretty smooth sailing: I attended my wellness meetings, diligently watched my diet all but my “Thursday night” cheat night and was reaching my goals, tossing out too big clothes and on my way.
During the first couple months of my quest, I made sure to hit my Weight Watcher meetings, post on my “Wellness Facebook” page every day and put my goals and stories and day-to-day going ons out there for all to see. Basically I had a co-pilot on this road to healthy—the gentle prodding, encouragement and peer pressure from those who were tracking my progress.
My weight was falling off and I was feeling great about myself. My blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose levels, etc., were all the best they had been in years. I was on a quest and I was on my way.
When I opened my new store on April 4, I was officially down 44 pounds from my start weight. I was ready to reach my goal of being down to 275 pounds by June 23rd, and being lighter in October than I had been since my 30th birthday.
Well, call it complacency, stress, long work hours or just plain self confidence; I thought I could just do this on my own.
I continued with my juices, stayed off my diet sodas and drank my water. To this day, I still live a much healthier lifestyle then I have the past few years.
But slowly I let my reporting on Facebook slip and I started skipping my Weight Watchers meetings. As a result, my weight plateaued. I wasn’t gaining weight but I wasn’t losing either.
Then a few weeks ago my pants began to tell another story. I had to let the belt out a little bit. And I didn’t feel as good as I had.
I hopped on the scale. Insert a few choice curse words here: I was up 8 pounds!
I knew I needed my support group back.
So now I am asking all of you to turn up the pressure again. I will do my part, work on the diet, get back to my meetings and make sure to renew my quest on Facebook to reach a goal of losing 100 pounds of and gaining 100,000 followers. But I now know that I cannot do it without you.
I’ll admit it, I get a thrill every time I get another “like” on Facebook or when someone comes up and comments about my column here in the paper. And the encouragement I get from the group leaders at both Weight Watchers and the Wellness Foundation is not only appreciated, it’s instrumental to my success. Peggy, Mike, Dominick and Pat: if you’re out there, I miss you and need your support.
So for now, I am going to do this and am going to take this as a wake-up call rather than an admission of failure. I have too great of a wife and children to not do my part to spend as many years with them as I possibly can.
It’s clear to me now what the difference between success and failure is and what it’s going to take to succeed. Going forward, I’m going to make sure to let you all into my quest by putting this out there, not just a challenge for myself but one for all of you to help me stay on this “Road To Healthy.”
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