Hitting the Wall

There is a saying among marathon runners, it is "hitting the wall". This refers to when a runner is on a good pace, when all of a sudden, WHAM, they are completely fatigued and feel as if they can no longer continue. But, if they push through it, continue taking step after step, they soon are through that wall and on their way again.

I have found that in weight loss, the same saying applies. After losing 37lbs, I found myself stuck, unable to move away from that number. The holidays came, I gained some weight back, but managed to lose it again. However, the scale stubbornly stayed still, as if mocking my efforts to "push through the wall".

Today I did it. I moved past that looming number, and now that I have, I feel as though I can do anything. Only 4 months ago, I weight 38lbs heavier than I do today. I was wearing a size 20 pants, and XL teeshits. Today, more often than not I'm in a size 16, and Larges are starting to be big on me. (though, my ample chest will keep me in the for a while yet)

Anything is possible if you put your mind to it I'm finding. I wish I had come to this conclusion while still in high school, but then again, I'm blessed in the fact that I still have a lot of years left where I can put this revelation to use.

So I say, perservere through your troubles. If you keep at it, eventually something will give, and you too will know that anything is possible.

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."  ~Jacob A. Riis