From fat to fit at 50: A Personal Journey of Self-Discovery and Weight Loss. (Project me)
Synopsis "From fat to fit at 50: A Personal Journey of Self-Discovery and Weight Loss. (Project me)"
This is a personal account of my original goal of finding a more healthy way to tackle my depression. I was motivated to reduce the number of pills I had to take. I was motivated to break out of the slump I was in. I was motivated to do what I could to be happy for my remaining years. Depression had me feeling like I didn't have much longer to live, and in my heart, I felt that if that were true, I at least wanted to enjoy the few remaining years I had left. The steps I took during this transformation were very personal, some private and some that some people considered controversial. I have to admit that in retrospect, I find that the path I took was very similar to the scene in the movie Forrest Gump, where Forrest starts running, and when he gets to the edge of town, he decides to just keep running. When he gets to the edge of the county, he decides to just keep running. When he gets to edge of the state, he decides to just keep running. And so on, for a journey that lasted him well over three years. Similarly, when I started my journey, I really didn't have any end result in mind. I just knew that something had to change. I started with a few small changes, and those led to other changes and along the way, the whole process snowballed into where I am today. I know my current change and transformation is still an ongoing process and that addiction is a lifelong challenge, but I hope I have begun planting some deep rooted habits to help supplant some of the old ones I am trying to combat. All my life, I have been a son or a boyfriend or a husband or a father to someone. I have never really been all about just me.I didn't know when I started that I would end up where I am today. I just knew I did not want to be where I was anymore.
