What Have You Done Today to Make You Feel Proud?
on 9/5/08 6:04 pm
Let's just say I'm proud I made it through the day....and hopefully everyday hereafter will be better. And I'm proud I won't have to go through recovering from elective surgery anymore 'cuz it sucks! 
I remember years ago being in a meeting in the board room at work and our CEO started talking about that movie Super Size Me and how horrible it was that people ate fast food and allowed themselves to get so unhealthy. I was the only fat person in the room except for one of our executives, who was male and about 60 years old, so it was ok that he was fat. Although I don't believe the CEO was talking directly to me, my fat self certainly thought so and I wanted to crawl under the carpet and DIE (and blurt out that I never ate fast food...as if that would have made a difference!). From that moment forward, I vowed to start trying to lose weight so I could look better and not be stifled in my career. As much as I don't like it, where I work (and many other places), place value on how someone looks. And frankly, how I look affects my self-esteem which affects my self-confidence at work.
When something clicks and you get that sense of purpose that you never had to motivate you before then. Yours was your career at stake. Mine was seeing an old lady who weighed at least four hundred pounds use a walker to go into a restaurant. I just refused to be her when I got old.I'm proud you made it through, too. Hang in there Sister, after swell hell comes those great results!
Mary
on 9/6/08 12:33 pm
The hypocrisy of our leadership being horrified by the Super Size Me movie and yet we have a McDonald's smack dab in the middle of our hospital AND the realization that to really be noticed for my work, I had to do something about my weight. Our CEO is my biggest cheerleader and although I'd prefer his cheering wasn't about the way I looked, I realize that looks are very important in our culture (at work and otherwise) and he goes out of his way to compliment me. 