Friend of Julie: Moment in Time

One of the focuses of this blog is to look at the positive changes our weight loss journey has brought into our lives and to shine a light on them. These moments in time, where we discover a change in our lives directly related to our weight loss, allows us to reflect on how far we've come in more ways than dropping sizes. 

photo by Theresa

Our stories are not all the same, but sharing and celebrating such abstract moments, moments Oprah refers to as "ah ha moments," inspires the rest of us who are on this journey. Linda's recent posts have been about these kinds of moments in time, moments where she discovered a positive change in her life that resulted from her weight loss journey

Yesterday Linda wrote "I think we all need to look at positive changes in our behaviors and current sizes and remember where we have come from" (see Positive AHA Moment - Doctors Visit).

Today's moment in time story comes from Jennifer. She shared this story this morning and I immediately asked her permission to post it here.

Jennifer's moment:

I went in to CVS this evening to pick up a few things.

A nice woman who works there handed me a coupon for the nail polish I was buying.

She says "I just bought this bag of crunchy candy blahblahblah, would you like a piece? I don't know why I bought this huge bag-it was talking to me I guess!"

I say "no thank you."

She proceeds to say "Oh come on, one piece! It won't hurt you!"...............

I look her in the eye, and say "70 pounds" (I really don't know my weight, this is a guess!), and "yeah, it can hurt me. I don't think it would be worth me eating it-I'm not giving up those 70 pounds for a piece of candy!"

She says "yeah, I wouldn't eat it either! Good for you!"

Ladies (and gent) THAT was a TEST! lol!