Why Not Me?

I find The Biggest Loser really inspirational. I do understand that a lot of it is set up and find it hard to believe that those people can lose that much weight in such a short period of time and NOT gain it back. I also believe that once most of those people go back to "real life," it may not be as easy for them. I mean, I could totally lose weight if my only responsibility in life was to exercise and eat what my trainer told me to eat. But, in real life, I have a lot going on. There's no way that I could exercise for eight hours a day. I took an hour walk today, and that was hard with a little one, in the stroller, complaining for the better part of the walk.

Anyway... back to The Biggest Loser. Ali really inspired me the other night. She could have been talking about ME! She was talking about how she shut down and didn't think she was worthy of happiness. She's now discovered "Why not me???" And so I ask myself... "Why not me?" I'm worth it. I SHOULD be happy! I should love myself enough to get healthy. And I'm really working towards that.

Today, I took a long, long walk with some of the ladies in my neighborhood. It was hard. In fact, in the beginning, when they told me where they were walking, I had serious doubt that I could do it. But one of the ladies encouraged me to do it. And I did. I made it! And I felt okay afterward. I seriously could have taken a nap afterward, but I didn't. I drove it and it was a little over 3 miles. That I walked. While pushing a stroller (that probably weighed, with child, about 40 pounds). And I'm going to do it again next week.