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Originally Posted by Simply Red
I'm proud of you.
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Thanks! I'm proud of me, too.
I wrote a poem not long ago. I'm not going to share all of it, but part of it goes:
It's not the shedding of weight
that has opened my eyes to myself.
It's the accomplishments along the way.
It's finding myself doing those things
I thought I knew I couldn't do.
What else have I "known" I couldn't do
that's been waiting to be done?
The weight loss has been great for the self-image, but it's the daily goals that I set and meet at the gym that boost my confidence everyday. One quick story about the day that self-confidence entered my life for the first time as an adult:
I was with my trainer, and we had just done the weight training portion of my workout. For my cardio for that day, he told me to row 1000m. The most I had ever rowed was 750m, and that took me 3:08.0. He said that he wanted me to row the 1000m in under 4:00.0. I told him that I thought that was low considering what I had done on the 750m. He adjusted the time to 5:00.0, but said he knew I would have no problem with 4:45.0. So, I made my aim 4:30.0. When I got done, I had rowed the 1000m in 4:00.4! I didn't even think that was possible! In that moment, the "impossible" became possible.
I did finally beat that damned time. The last time I did it, I got it in 3:59.8. It's barely under 4:00.0, but it is! It's constantly finding myself doing things like that which changed my attitude. Things are no longer impossible. They just aren't possible YET, but they will be. Finding confidence has been the most liberating experience of my life.