When we start the Take Shape for Life program using Medifast meals (or for that matter, ANY self-improvement program), we tell ourselves we "WANT" to change. We want to be slim. We want to be healthier. We want to look better, feel better, and have more confidence. We're tired of the pain of being overweight. We're tired of the looks we get sometimes when we're out. We're tired of having things be too tight....clothes, seatbelts, airline seats, you name it. We're tired of being slaves to our appetites. We're tired of getting out of breath walking up a flight of stairs. We've had it with pain in our legs, our knees, our ankles. We want to NOT see or feel all that FAT on our bodies.
We want, more than anything, to have a different body. A slim, healthy body. And a LIFESTYLE that supports it!
But how bad do we want it?
What are we willing to do to GET there?
What are we willing to GIVE UP?
These are important questions to ask yourself. And not just before making the decision to go on this program...THROUGHOUT the program. Because EVERY DAY you have to reaffirm your decision, and LIVE it, in order to truly change.
Changing our bodies does NOT happen overnight. It's a long tedious process, one that requires patience and planning and above all, SELF LOVE and SELF CARE.
When I first started the program back in February of 2012, I was one step away from having gastric bypass surgery. I was THAT desperate.
I read somewhere that a study asked 1,000 women this question:
"If you could be slim FOREVER -- never have to worry about your weight again -- but you would have to have your big toe cut off to do it, would you?"
I bet you can guess what they said. An overwhelming majority said "YES".
(I would've said YES, too!)
We would actually MUTILATE our own bodies in order to be thin.
This doesn't surprise me since, really, gastric bypass and other surgical methods actually SHRINK your stomach, making it smaller (permanently or 'adjustable', like the gastric sleeve method), so that you PHYSICALLY cannot eat more than a couple ounces of food at any one time. You LITERALLY cannot overeat.
