I found this status on a friends wall on FB.
Once you've made a decision to move on, don't look back. You will never find your future in the rear view mirror.
Talk about true! For so long I have been glancing in my rear view mirror. Comparing myself to my past self. What I used to be. How skinny I was once. No wonder I felt discouraged for so long.
You see, I am not the same person I was 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago. I am an ALMOST 40 year old woman who has given birth to 3 beautiful girls.........all via c-section. No matter how hard I try that flat stomach is just not achievable unless I go under the plastic surgery knife.
I have earned all my tiny wrinkles around my eyes (they are starting to show up more as I lose weight). My tata's..................*sigh* I joke that they look like a National Geographic picture of a woman who has never seen a good bra. Again, I have nursed 3 kiddos.............plastics may be in my future if I would like them to point North again.
What I am saying is I AM NOT PERFECT. I never will be. And the more I take a good look in my non-rear view mirror the more I am okay with that.
Being fat has made me more conscience of other peoples feelings and for that I am grateful. I used to wish that I had never gone down this road. I am beginning to see that this journey will make me a woman that I will really like.
I have said before that I hope I keep my fat girl personality in a new skinnier body. That is still my hope. I NEVER want to forget where I came from and where I am going.
But, I will no longer long for the life that I see in the rear view mirror because each day this journey just gets more and more amazing.
Ohhh ... I do like it ... great saying !
ReplyDeleteGreat mantra!! No more rear view mirrors!!!
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Great quote, and so true!
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ReplyDeleteI have this dream of being me at 20 again- that is not going to happen and you know what, I don't really want it to happen. I like me at 44..... well, I like me here well enough. I know I am a much better person inside then I was at 20 (thank goodness).
My girls are already sagging and I've only lost 37 pounds. I lost a cup size already. There are lots of other places that I'd rather see the weight loss. Eeek. You're right about the rear view mirror. When I catch myself thinking that way, I stop and remind myself that although it may be easier to look back, I have to forge ahead, as hard as it is on some days.
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