From Cocoon to butterfly

Maturity  takes many forms and affects all ages. when we think maturity, we always think of children maturing into adults but do you realize it affects all parts of our life. Even the bible talks of maturity where when they are as babies, they must be fed milk but as they mature, they can feed more on the meat of the word. Maturity even affects us in weight loss. Many have asked me how I can just continue to lose weight and not give into cravings. There is a reason. I know that I am not mature enough to handle things. I keep to the “milk” of weight loss.

Ok, I know you are a bit baffled by what you mean. Let’s see if I can simplify it from my brain to my fingers typing here. Many times, we get started in weight loss and really get on a roll of not cheating and really staying on the right path. Then. something happens, stress happens and yes, we react different but that is not what I am talking about. Many people on my other forum (not buddyslim) get going so well and then it is their bd or somone else’s bd. Or, a good friend is coming to visit or there is a thousand and one different sceneros such as these. What is the same thread of thought that runs through them is that the people decide, ok, just this once I will go off plan, just one little taste, it is just one time, I can’t help it I have to … or my personal favorite, this is the real world, you have to learn how to live and eat these foods so we have to learn.
All these excuses/reasons show immaturity of our thinking in weight loss. We are like children while we are on the weight reduction path. We don’t know how to limit our eating, choose the right tings to eat and so on. We have not reached maturity. Think about it, when you are a child, you may learn how to ride a bike and you have your scooter that you ride on. That is what youa re ready and can handle. But what about the car? I mean, everyone has a car and you have to learn how to drive , this is the real world right. So, what does mom and dad do? DO they give the child a car because eventually they do have to learn it? No,  because they know the danger it would be to the child. Not only the danger to the child but to others around them.  When you are mature enough to drive, you know how to watch for the dangers all around you, you know and are able to manuvere around obsticles and roads. You are aware of the dangers and know how to avoid them althought here may be time it will be barely.

Such is with us. Parents would never give their child something theyare not mature enough to deal with. When we are on the weight reduction trail , we are as children. WE can’t see the danger till too late. We don’t know how to steer throught he obsicles of life and junk food. We are not aware of things yet and if we do get off track, we will fall everytime. Only through losing the weight slowly, learning phycially and mentally things about ourselves, can we grow in maturity. When I was in WW one time, in ninth grade, I learned how to starve myself to lose weight quickly. I lost really quickly but in the end, I was a child with a car and I crashed majorly. I never learned to reach maturity in handling and being able to stya on the road without going left or right (gaining weight)  How do I continually lose weight every week, because I acknowledge that I can’t handle the car. I am still a child, give me my bicycle, I can handle that. As I continue to mature and learn more, I can then maybe go up to something bigger but I know right now is not the time to cheat because you can’t cheat. Once I get to goal, I am like a teenager getting her restricted drivers license. Still not totally safe at first but learning how to eat healthy an correctly. ONce I mature more, I can try things out but have to keep on the right road. So folks, don’t try that car out now, wait till maturity has come.