Shame! It Changed My Life

My dad celebrated his 80th birthday this year, and my sister threw a party in England for him. Friends and family from near and far were all there. It was such a special event!

It was an event that changed the trajectory of my life! Never have I felt such shame being in front of those guests. The friends and family members that were there that day have known me most of my life. They knew of my athletic successes. But now I was far from being the elite athlete that I once was. I was the heaviest person at that party, and it left me feeling such deep shame. Shame that I had let myself plumet to the heaviest I had ever weighed. I tipped the scales at 270 pounds!

That feeling of shame was the impetus for a radical shift in my life. I came home from that overseas trip a new person; a person determined and resolved to flip the script of my life. So, new habits were created. A new mindset was adopted.

I can now report that I have lost 30 pounds and I am on my way to being the best version of myself!

It took that powerful emotion called shame to spur me into action. I am grateful for that life-changing revelation, but never again do I want to feel that level of pain!

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