Weight Loss: Comfort in Company, not food.

This post is geared towards those individuals with weight issues. This is just a small topic I will touch on when it comes to the big big world of weight loss. Parties and big social events. This is advice from someone whose currently going through a weight loss journey.

Parties are filled with many finger foods and often at times alcohol and hi sugar drinks. What I have come to realize is my personal obsession with food on an entirety.

I realized as I went to our weight watchers meeting 2 weeks ago that every time the word "Party" has ever been mentioned in my life I automatically think "what will they be serving. Will the food be good. Will there be enough?". The worst part always came with actually going to the party. A girl at our meeting said something that made a light bulb go off in my head. She said "I finally realized that a party isn't about the food it's about the people. I realized it had nothing to do with the food. When I realized this I was able to actually have a fun time instead of obsessing over what to eat and what I couldn't eat.". This thing we have is literally an obsession, we obsess over it so much that it tends to take over the meaning of what party means. I would literally sit at parties as that beautiful girl at the buffet took another piece of cake while her figure remained flawless. I obsessed over the fact that she was having something I couldn't have. I found myself never truly satisfied at the end of the night.

This year with my new found mind set I will be focusing on the company not the comfort food. I will be satisfied because I choose to have that strawberry without chocolate covering on it. I choose to have that piece of grilled chicken over the saucy stake. I will choose to enjoy what I eat and take the value out of having a healthy life style and changing who I am. Because others can do it never has meant I can do it. I have always known this but was just to involved with what others had instead of being happy that I am an individual and I can beat this thing called over weight. It starts one step at a time.