My "AH-HA" Moment

 I want to first give a big round of applause to my two followers .... Thank you for following my blog wheter you know it or not it's the biggest encouragement there is in this weight loss journey. Kudos!!!
 Now about my ah-ha moment it happen while I was in the weight watchers center with my mother.   She (my mother), have very bad knees I've had to encouraged her to eat right and stay focus. My reasons for encouraging her is that it will help her in the end.

But I was not the food police I did not visit her every day and I did not call her daily. I touched base with her several times a month and visited with her at least 6 times during the course of the month. I did not want her thinking she had to answer to me and I did not want her to feel obligated to lose the weight because I was hounding her and for all intended purposes I surely did not want to be there to enable or influence her eating knowing I was on and off the wagon at a drop of a dime.

 Anyways I picked her up Saturday morning and she was ready to face the music I mean the (scale). This is basically how it goes you find a center in your area or zip code and find out what days they are open that will work with your schedule then you  show up on that day that the center/office is suppose to be open. They give you some paper work to fill in and you fill in what you can and that my friends is the very first step to a healthier you.  So that is what my mother did so when she turned in her paper work they called her name and it was time to step up on the scale. 

When she weighed in I just knew it would be 230lbs if not more nope it wasn't this woman (my mother) followed all of the tools that I gave her and she weighed in at 217lbs. You may say that is a lot but for a woman that lose her child and her husband in a span of two years that is damn good. And I was proud of her to and I let her know it.  And that is when I had my AH-HA moment.

My mother realized that her health was bad and no one was going to baby sit her so through trials and tribulation and sorrow she decided she still had to try to live and live healthier. What made it a ah-ha moment was the same tools I gave my mother I also had but did not use them.  So the ah-ha was sh*t or get off the pot.  Your either do it or you don't; you either lose or you gain; you say what you mean and do what you say or stop talking about it. So when I got on the scale my weight lost was 1.8lbs and that very moment made me decide I am worth it.