Put Your Mind To It, Go For It

As you read in my Confessions post, I am a self proclaimed diet-a-holic. Why, you might wonder, after trying a variety of different diets, did I choose the Weight Watchers program? First, a little history… As I mentioned before, I have been over weight for as long as I can remember. I remember restricting my [...]

I have always considered myself to be an overweight person. I’m not sure when this identity trait infiltrated my thinking but I can not remember a time when who I am as a person was not closely aligned with what I weighed on the scale.

In college, I had a friend suffering from bulimia. In order to convince her to get professional help, I recommended that we both take advantage of the free counseling offered in our university health center. Knowing that she wouldn’t walk in the door unless I were going with her, I made an appointment for her and another for myself. What I didn’t know is that I would walk out of my own counseling session with a question I have yet to be able to answer for myself…