Change and Weight Loss

There are three moments in my life that triggered me - made me know that I needed to change my habits and become healthy. They're odd situations, but here they are:

1.) When I was 19 or 20, I was at work, and I was complaining to my supervisor that I didn't like this particular song we were playing on the stereo system, and he said to me, "change it". I remarked, "i'm allowed to do that?" He responded, "yeah, if you don't like something - change it". I know it seems pretty weird to a be a life changing experience. But after that quick conversation, as I was changing the CD in the stereo, I remember thinking - wow, yeah, if I don't like it - change it. I spent the rest of the day that day thinking about all the things in my life that I disliked and making a plan to change it -because really, the hardest thing about change is making the decision to change.

2.) Talking to a former best friend of mine when I was about 22 years old. I remember complaining about how my mom was going on and on, ragging on me for being fat and begging me to start losing weight. I guess my friend got tired of listening to my complaints, because she snapped at me, "then just do it already - just lose weight if her comments bother you so much". Well I shut right up then and there. A little insulted, I thought, "hum, ya, she has a point..."

3.) When I was 24, talking with my dad on the phone, he was telling me about how my mom was saying that she just wishes I would lose weight and was thinking of some incentive she could give me to help me make that change. My dad said to me, "when you decide to lose the weight - you'll do it. Once you chose to do it, you'll be successful at it and will lose all the weight". This sparked a "I should just do it then, if deciding to do it is all it takes..."

These three moments in my life really stand out in my life in terms of change - sinking deep into my subconscious and reminded me constantly that all I really needed to do was make the decision that I did want to change and the change would happen.

I went to see eat pray love last night, and although I found it to be more of a love story than anything else, I saw this idea of change burried deep within the underlying message of the movie.

The hardest part about change - is making the decision to change!