Why Bother?
July 19, 2009
If you want to know why I’ve been willing to work so hard to lose the excess weight I carried for so many years and get physically in shape, this photo tells it all. I’m not only doing things I could never have imagined doing and seeing things I could have never seen. While on vacation D and I have gone on several hiking adventures. This one in the Columbia River Gorge was a five mile loop with some notable ascents that led us past Horsetail Falls, Ponytail Falls, Oneonta Falls and up to the end of the trail at Triple Falls. Never could I have seen this breath-taking beauty at the height of my obesity. I could never have stood on this fallen log. I could never looked around at all this incredible wonder and thanked God for such a view and such a special time in the silence and seclusion of such a place. This photo could never have happened when climbing a flight of steps left me breathless and when I would have rather laid on my couch watching another movie and eating another bowl of butter-logged popcorn than venturing outside to explore the world around me.
Losing weight and getting in shape is so much more than fitting into smaller clothes. It’s about engaging in life in a way that was once impossible to me. I’m just so thankful today for the gift I’ve been given.
Posted in Fitness and Exercise, Pacific Northwest
July 20th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Amen to that! I have finally hit 90 pounds lost and just got back from vacation. There were still tons of things that I could not attempt, but I also realized that there were things I did this year, that I could not have done last year. Progress is progress, pound by pound. Thanks for sharing!