Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Bilbo was sadly reflecting that adventures are not all Pony-rides in May-sunshine

AKA the Medifast Blues. Tolkien never spoke truer words than that one phrase. This phrase comes from The Hobbit and it occurs after the initial euphoria of beginning on an "Adventure" with the dwarves wears off. They are cold. They are wet. They are hungry. And the lofty ideals and mighty intentions they had when they began the journey are tested when the trials begin.

But they press on. No, our Medifast adventure is not all pony-rides in May-sunshine. It is not all fun. It is not all gung-ho-let-my-emotions-carry-me-through-the-day good times. Even the losses we see consistently on the scale from week to week sometimes just don't create enough motivation to continue. Welcome to the business of life, my friends.

We press on. We are running a race, and we hit a wall sometimes. We stumble sometimes. We pick ourselves off as we see the runners disappearing in the distance, those who did not stumble. We wish we were them and feel a bit sorry for ourselves.

But the choice is always ours. Do we continue with perseverance or do we turn around and get on the fat-wagon? I, for one, ain't turning around.

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