{"id":12339,"date":"2011-01-25T13:15:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=12339"},"modified":"2011-01-25T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:55:56","slug":"actually-it-will-change-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=12339","title":{"rendered":"Actually It Will Change Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I came across a post called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/s.rvxn.org\/2010\/11\/02\/losing-weight-will-not-change-your-life\/\">25 ways losing weight will not change your life<\/a>.&#8221; Go ahead and check out the list. The author claims that losing weight will NOT:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>change your life<\/li>\n<li>destroy your insecurities<\/li>\n<li>result in better health<\/li>\n<li><strong>make you love yourself<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so on. You get the idea. My intent in this post is <strong>not <\/strong>to be a jerk towards that author. I don&#8217;t know them. I don&#8217;t know their story. They don&#8217;t know my story. But I was honestly really turned off by the whole thing. I disagreed with a lot of the things on the list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ready-to-lose-weight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12344\" title=\"ready-to-lose-weight\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ready-to-lose-weight-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ready-to-lose-weight-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ready-to-lose-weight.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLet me first say that losing weight will not solve <em><strong>all <\/strong><\/em>your problems. That&#8217;s for darn sure.<\/p>\n<p>If your problems are high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart problems, stress, depression&#8230;YES losing weight will most likely solve those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=2603\">problems<\/a>. They did for me. A friend of mine has lost weight and she&#8217;s cut her diabetes medication in half. It does improve your health in so many ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/chicago.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12345\" title=\"chicago\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/chicago-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/chicago-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/chicago.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI was so unhealthy at 250 pounds. Sad, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=742\">depressed<\/a>, unhealthy, lethargic.\u00a0 My quality of life was not good.<\/p>\n<p>I hate to sound like a soap-box preacher but losing 100 pounds changed my life in so many ways&#8211;all of them positive. This is why I disagree with that list. Losing weight DID change my life. If I hadn&#8217;t &#8211;would I be on the cover of a magazine?? NO!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mag1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12347\" title=\"mag\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mag1-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mag1-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mag1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWould I have been able to bike Reach the Beach or run Hood to Coast? NO!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/htcbox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12348\" title=\"htcbox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/htcbox-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/htcbox-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/htcbox-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/htcbox.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf I hadn&#8217;t lost weight I never ever would have found a love for fitness. A love of running, a renewed passion for swimming, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=1293\">hiking <\/a>and a new love of cycling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/smithrock1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12346\" title=\"smithrock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/smithrock1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/smithrock1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/smithrock1.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWho knows if I would have met Michael? I&#8217;m sure my life would be a lot different now if I hadn&#8217;t lost weight. I had very low self-esteem when I was obese. I didn&#8217;t love myself, so why would anyone else love me? I dated a string of loser guys that didn&#8217;t treat me very well and I thought that was the &#8220;best&#8221; I could find. Sad, I know, but really common.<\/p>\n<p>When I lost weight and got healthy in mind and body I realized that I was worthy of everything I wanted out of life. That included positive, healthy partners who valued me as <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I VALUED MYSELF<\/strong><\/span>. I dated a few more jerks in my journey but my patience was growing thin.<\/p>\n<p>Michael has repeatedly told me that one of the most attractive things about me is that I am a &#8220;do-er.&#8221; I do things. If I want something, I get it. I try hard, I am focused and determined and strong willed (he calls it stubborn). That&#8217;s attractive in a person. And I wasn&#8217;t like that at 250. I was kind of a whiner at 250. I said &#8220;I can never lose weight&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ll always be fat.&#8221; I also said &#8220;I&#8217;ve tried everything&#8211;nothing works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m lucky I found someone who sees past what I &#8220;used&#8221; to be. A lot of guys would be turned off to the fact that I used to be fat. Thankfully Michael is not shallow like that. Plus we&#8217;ve grown to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=7638\">love fitness together<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=11156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12349\" title=\"snowshoe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/snowshoe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/snowshoe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/snowshoe.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not to say that I was a bad person at 250. Or that my readers are somehow not valued because they aren&#8217;t &#8220;skinny.&#8221; That&#8217;s absurd. I am not a fat-hater. I didn&#8217;t hate myself as a fat person. I do not hate overweight people. I think that article confused the two. <strong>Feeling like your life will improve with good health is NOT hating your fat self.<\/strong> I just don&#8217;t see that. <strong>How is trying to better yourself a bad thing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I am an anomaly.\u00a0 Maybe most people who lose a lot of weight DON&#8217;T feel different and don&#8217;t feel like they are a different person. But I do. I feel completely different and I am happy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Losing weight I found myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I found a self-worth that had been hiding within my fat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I found happiness. I found health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It DID change my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>QUESTION: Do you agree or disagree? Did getting healthy change your life in any way?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I came across a post called &#8220;25 ways losing weight will not change your life.&#8221; Go ahead and check out the list. The author claims that losing weight will NOT: change your life destroy your insecurities result in better health make you love yourself And so on. You get the idea. 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