Making Dreams Reality

This is an important day for our family, as our younger daughter graduates from college with her BSN this afternoon. She went back to college almost three years ago to pursue her second bachelor's degree (first one was in psychology, plus she completed all of the course work for a master's in social work), so today is the culmination of a long academic journey. She likes to joke that after all the schooling she's had, she finally has a marketable degree :-). Melissa will be 29 this summer, has been married almost 9 years and has two children (ages 6 and 4). Her husband is completing his MBA, so their lives have been crazy for the last couple of years.

I am so incredibly proud of her, and proud of my son-in-law, because they had a dream and have worked hard to see that dream fulfilled. There were times when it was very stressful, and times when she wasn't having a lot of fun, but she held on to her dream and kept putting one foot in front of the other, and today she graduates and is ready to begin her new career in nursing.

That reminds me a lot of our own weight loss journey (you just knew that eventually I'd tie this back to our weight loss, didn't you? lol).

We started this journey because we had our own big dream - a dream of getting to our goal weight. The big dream of getting to our goal weight has lots of other, smaller dreams, wrapped inside - a dream of getting off medications, of wearing a small size, or maybe a dream of doing something we haven't been able to do in a long time, like ride a horse.

Sometimes the journey towards that dream is a difficult one, and sometimes it's not a lot of fun. I know that I didn't wake up every morning of my journey joyful that I got to do 5&1 another day, but I kept putting one foot in front of the other because I had a big dream and I kept focused on that.

And that's how you're going to reach your own goal, one on-plan day at a time. Keep your eyes on your dream - don't let go of it! Unlike some dreams that may or may not happen, I can promise you that if you stick to the program, you WILL reach your goal and see many of those long-held dreams become reality. Go for it!