No More Swimming In Circles

As you all know by now I LOVE LOVE LOVE to read and to draw parallels from what I read to this lifestyle change journey. So I was reading this analogy about change and there was a man who had this really small fish bowl and he noticed it was getting dirty and the fish were just swimming in circles. Tight and small circles at high speeds and then sometimes slowly. He decided to go and purchase a new bowl but felt so bad for the fish in all the grime and how they were in these tight circles….going round and round. So he filled his very large bath tub with water. Brought the pH and everything to the right level so they would be safe as he went to shop for a bigger bowl for them. So he put the fish in the very large bath tub and walked away to get dressed to shop for the bigger bowl. He thought he’d check on the fish one last time before he left for the mall and he was surprised by what he saw. In spite of being in this VERY vast and VERY large bath tub of water…..the fish were still swimming in tight concentric circles. They refused to make a different choice even though their “world had gotten bigger”…ding ding ding! So what the heck does this have to do with us?

Soooo many posts this week about wearing new clothes, doing different things, thinking differently, owning your red dot, etc but then there are also our posts about missing the mark (me included). It got me thinking that sometimes we’ve been placed in a bigger “fish bowl” and yet we CHOOSE to do the same thing. Get stressed…eat. Life goes haywire…eat. People say and do crazy stuff…we eat. We plan poorly and then wonder why that didn’t work. Going in tight concentric circles in “dirty” water when this program has given us ALL the gift of a bigger “bowl” to play in. We don’t have to follow our old habits and our old ways of thinking. WE chose to “swim” in a bigger “bowl” the day we joined Jenny Craig. Tight circles of hating the way we look, sitting on the sidelines of life wishing we could participate, envious of what others could wear and how they look, pity parties over what we just ate or even what we can’t eat, wallowing for days sometimes months over a slip….all tight useless circles. When we change the way we look at things the things we look at change. THAT is what we’re all doing. As we lose physical weight, the clarity we all are beginning to have in our “clean” fish bowls of life is incredible. It is life changing.

So Coaches….my challenge to myself and the one I invite all of you to this week is to realize how large you can live life. Realize that you don’t have to CHOOSE to move in circles anymore. Realize that you don’t have to follow your former ways into even more pity. Whatever happened up to this moment, whatever choices you made that you didn’t like….it’s a new day…get out of the circle. That’s my plan….how about you?

Oh and BTW….I got out of my “circle” big time this week. I lost 3.6 pounds. Yay me! 32 pounds total….and counting!

Here we go……

Hope

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