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		<title>What It&#8217;s Like to Lose 100 Pounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Borgstede]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health/Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[100 Pounds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was at the post office. Handing my I.D. to the clerk, she examined it, looked at me, and looked at the photo again. &#8220;Wow, you look really different!&#8221; I get that response often so wasn&#8217;t too surprised. I&#8217;ve considered ordering a new driver&#8217;s license since I&#8217;m slightly worried I&#8217;ll get stopped at the airport for not being the actual Sara M. Borgstede. (I&#8217;m really me, I promise.) &#8220;Thanks! I&#8217;ve lost a lot of weight,&#8221; was my response. How did you DO it? The next question I hear is usually, &#8220;How did you do it?!&#8221; I have a variety of possible responses: Short answer #1: I&#8217;m still doing it. Short answer #2: Therapy, prayer, exercise, life-style change. Slightly long answer #1: Therapy, more therapy, sweat, tears, food and calorie obsession, slow progress and back sliding then progress, prayer and railing at God and more prayer and trust, triathlon, exercise I hated, exercise I loved, support from my husband, time alone with my thoughts, emails with a dear friend who &#8220;gets it.&#8221; Weight issues are so public yet so private. We wear our addiction for the whole world to see in the form of unwanted pounds. I see the longing in the eyes of people who ask me this question. I know the desire I felt when I asked that question myself when I was at my heaviest. What was the secret that would get me out of the prison of food and weight obsession in which I was trapped? My struggle with my weight was the heaviest of coats I wore no matter the weather, the burden I carried and from which I never got a vacation. On my blog, The Holy Mess, I share in the 100 lbs lost series the outside tools I used to lose weight &#8212; which diet plan, which exercise methods and which foods I ate. None of those really matter all that much, though. I had tried and used those methods at least 50 times before, when I lost the weight and then regained every pound. Nothing on the outside will fix what is broken on the inside. Changing my thinking, my core beliefs about who I am, and my deepest realizations about the way God loves and accepts me, are what turned my life around. I&#8217;ve done it and it&#8217;s absolutely possible you can do it too! &#160; The 5 Keys to My Weight Loss The main keys to my 100 pound weight loss: Therapy. Not just with any therapist, but with one who knew about eating issues. All the diets and programs in the world didn&#8217;t work for me until I got my head on straight. An Accountability Program. For me that was Weight Watchers. For you it might be something different, but I had to have something to keep me on the rails. I started Weight Watchers online program about 6 months after I was going to therapy regularly. Faith. I&#8217;ve been a Christian all my life, believing in Jesus as my Savior. Through this journey I needed to rely on God in new ways. I also had to have faith that losing weight and overcoming my eating issues was really possible. At times it was just a tiny speck of light, but I held on to it. Support. Binge eating tends to be a solitary activity. Losing weight needs to be done with support. I couldn&#8217;t do it alone. I am here for you! Other people in your life will be too when you reach out for it. Exercise &#8212; later. Eventually exercise became a huge component to my weight loss journey, but I didn&#8217;t start with it. &#160; Do you struggle with your weight and fitness? Leave a comment below and join in the discussion. &#160;]]></description>
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