Shedding Your Secrets Each of us is carrying around information about ourselves that we feel uncomfortable sharing with others.
These secrets remain so because we feel that revealing them will change our lives.
Often we are afraid to disappoint others or to let them know that what we appear to be is not completely accurate.
We feel embarrassed about how we have dealt with situations and their outcomes.
And when it comes to being overweight,
It seems that society as a whole influences our keeping secrets.
We are supposed to be able to stop ourselves from getting fat because the general societal opinion is that it is bad.
And you get little sympathy when trying to explain how it happened.
Society feels that you shouldn't have allowed it,
That you ought to be able to control it.
So the disappointments you have about life due to being overweight fall on deaf ears when you want to share feelings.
Being overweight is never viewed as having advantages,
And so you are not free to talk about the comforts it can bring.
You are not given adequate credit for your accomplishments if you have achieved them while overweight.
So you hide your successes,
Never letting them shine as they should.
Now is the time to change all of this.
It is time to be honest with yourself,
To free yourself from the emotional prison you have kept yourself in by never outwardly admitting how you got fat and what it has kept you from doing,
Having,
And being.
You will feel better about yourself when you are free to grieve and then move on.
There are advantages to staying overweight.
State them.
Don't be afraid that by recognizing them you will be promoting them.
All you are doing is being honest with yourself.
And by sharing them they will sound differently to you and begin to change the meanings they have for you.
You have succeeded despite being overweight.
How have you done that?
Take time to pat yourself on the back.
Start doing it now.
