It's not how you start the race, but how you finish

I know how you feel when you work so hard and you feel like you can conquer the world then...the wind gets knocked out of your sails. It happens to all of us. Yesterday I gained three pounds, and it is frustrating, annoying, and downright discouraging, but I cannot dwell on that.

Weight is like a war with your body. Your body is fighting to stay the same, your brain lies to you saying you need what you really don't, and your stomach says you are hungry when you don't need that extra food. There are very few wars when one side wins every battle and even less, if there is any at all, when one side doesn't have a casualty.

When America fought for our independence from Britain we lost more battles than we won, so why did we win? We were more stubborn, what we wanted to win was worth more than the reason Britain wanted to win. We wanted freedom, they wanted tax revenue.

In our battle against our bodies and the lifestyle that we have grown accustomed to is just like that war. We will have casualties (weight gain) and so will our bodies (weight loss). We will lose some battles (overeating) and we will win some.

It is not how many times we fall, but how many times we get up. It is not how you start your race, or anything in between, but it is how you finish. Keep encouraged my friends, and when things seem like they do not go your way, know this: you body may have won a battle, but it has not won the war!!!