Dangit..Part II - No More Excuses

May 2008

June 2009 - look collarbones!!

Hey All!!

Let me start out by saying that I love, love, love running!!  Love the way it makes me feel, love the energy, love the stares of others as they watch my boobs bouncing (I mistakenly thought that they were smiling and honking at me out of admiration, pigs!).

I also love the way my body is starting to change !  The scale is moving at a snails pace – tho I did weigh in (at home) at 174.4 last Monday.  That’s 82 pounds gone – woo hoo!   I love it when I see folks that haven’t seen me in a while and they are floored cuz I look so good!  Their favorite saying is “where did the rest of you go?”  And my favorite answer is “I ran her off!”  Bwhahahaha…..well I thought it was funny…..

I love the cash I am making from selling off my old clothes – I was a total clothes horse! And I love fitting into a smaller friends clothes – thanks Teresa and Melissa!!

I totally love showing my arms and wearing tank tops with no shame! I love how my hair, nails and skin react positively to the daily workouts I give my body.  I reaaly love the runner’s high – did you know that you can have multiples of those too?

I love the new confidence that I have in myself.  I always knew that I could do anything, now I am actually putting things into motion.  Except for, ahem, posting – I am trying to catch up!  Which reminds me, somebody better post soon, cash and shirts are on the line!!

Anyhoo, back to the topic.  I am totally loving what proper nutrition and exercise are doing for my well being and overall outlook on life.  Really, at this point, I cannot see going back to the way I was.  I was tired, sick, bloated  and had no energy.  Yes, I lived or rather existed in an ok life – had friends, nice job, some semblance of a life.

But now I am living!!  Breathing, seeing things in a new way.  My mind is clearer, my body can move , my soul wants to play!

I wanted to  write a thought provoking, witty, but serious post.  And I did come up with a few things but they did not sound at all like me, and frankly, if I stumbled across all that blather, I wouldn’t read it!  You came here to learn how to get healthy, not to be bored to death!

So,  I’m just going to post this plain and simple – Ms. Tracy Style!

Listen,  stop the excuses!!  Stop using Society, God and White Women as scapegoats and face the truth – to be fat is unhealthy.  Now matter how much good you do for others, no matter how successful you are, no matter how much you love yourself………you are cutting 5 to 20 years off of your precious wonderful life.  Years that could be spent with your loved ones, or traveling, or just plain old wonderful living…..gone!!

I am not advocating anorexia.  I’m not for starving or hurting yourself to gain a certain body type.  I am for setting realistic goals for wellness, and for setting the bar a little higher than we have been.  If you are carrying 50 to 100 pounds of extra weight, don’t stop at 20!  Keep going, keep pushing – You Can Do It! You will be amazed at what perseverance can do for you!

We are dying…..dropping like flies from Diabetes, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, AIDS , etc.   And we are not going quietly into that good night – we are suffering painful slow unnecessary deaths  – and for what? What are we proving?  The only ones getting hurt are ourselves.

“But Black Women’s bodies are naturally bigger, bla bla…”  Bullshit!  The reason we are bigger is because:

1. We eat too much of the wrong foods.

2. We don’t eat enough of the right foods to counter the bad stuff.

3. We sit on our asses and don’t exercise.

Women of other races that follow that pattern – they get big too.

“Well, Society says White Women bla bla….”  Uh Huh….Society at one time said that we were basically inferior monkey’s that didn’t have the right to basic human rights like school and voting.  We didn’t throw in the towel then……

Stop worrying about White Women and Society – they have their own agenda, which is to be at the top, to be the best. At everything.  Get your own personal agenda to do the same, follow through, don’t look back, and see what Society has to say about you then..

If you are happy fat and ya know it (clap your hands!) – good for you!  Try this: eat a little better, and get some real exercise.  Lose a couple of pounds, gain some muscle, get some energy….If you thought you were happy then, honey, you are going to be f__king ecstatic!!

And as for my reasons for wanting to be “skinny” as being shallow and materialistic – I just want what every other woman of every other race gets.  We are the only race of women who constantly deny our femininity in favor of “gettin it for myself”.  It’s like we weren’t brought into this world to be loved and taken care of and revered.  Instead, somebody decided that bw were going to be the workhorses and bear the weight of the world on her shoulders.  Well you know what happens to workhorses when they are no longer useful?  Mmm hmm,  Ms. Tracy ain’t going out like that…..

Life is hard enough, why make it harder?  Take a year out for yourself, half a year, hell take a week!   Try it – your life, your quality of life depends on it!

You can do it!  I did!  And I’m glad for it!

Til next time!!