Net Loss Club: Morbese City

Morbese City!

Written by Frances
A Net Loss Club member.

Dear Friends,
Hi, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Justme. I'd like to submit my profile to the Net Loss Club.
I currently live on the border of a town called Morbidly Obese, in the state of Overeating. I've lived here for a few years. When I was young, and used to envision all the exciting, wonderful places I could live, I definitely never pictured myself ending up here.
How I came to settle down here is a long story. I got here based on choices I made along the way. Choices made in college led to choices made at work, to choices in relationships, and eventually the marriage and motherhood choice. It's not a very great place to live, but there are some benefits. It's comfortable, and I definitely have learned some things living here.
When I first learned about this town I'd settled down in, I was horrified. I didn't want to live here - in fact I HATED living here. I was absolutely miserable. I saw no good in it. I was also very lonely. I met some other people here in Morbidly Obese. Some were happy; some were not. Many people in this town seemed to just blindly go about their lives as if they were perfectlly satisfied and nothing in the world was wrong. I wanted to get out of this town desperately.
After a number of failed attempts to get out of town, I resigned myself to living here. I thought, well, as long as I'm going to live in Morbidly Obese, I might as well make the most of it. I started shopping in the downtown stores. I made some friends. I became acquainted with life in this town. I learned about the Plus size stores to buy my clothes in. The grocery stores were filled with my favorite things to eat. I began to realize that it wasn't my ideal place to live, but it wasn't all bad either. The men who lived here didn't try to make you be unfaithful to your husbands. The people who lived here tended to be loyal, and cared for each other.

Believe it or not, I really began to find out that living in Morbidly Obese wasn't the worse place to live in the world.
Yet, I had my eye on this other town that appealed to me so much. It's called the town of Ideal Weight, and it's in the State of Self-Mastery. I've heard a lot of good things about that State. There's a lot of nice little towns there. The town of Physical Fitness is nearby, and the fashions in the stores are pretty chic. The town of Ideal Weight is a nice place for mothers with children, because there's a playground there where there are no benches for the mom's to sit on. They actually go down the slides, and tumble and climb.
It's a little racier in Ideal Weight than Morbidly Obese. You have to know what neighborhoods to stay out of. It's a bit more competitive, lots of gossip. It's hard to find a woman friend. Yet these are minor problems, and with a little know-how can be managed. A friend of mine moved to Ideal Weight. I went to visit her there. I really enjoyed it, and was sad to come home to Morbidly Obese.
Since I enjoyed my trip to Ideal Weight so much, the next time I visited, I rented a vacation home and stayed for a while. I really wanted to stay there forever, but my vacation time expired, and I had to get back to my responsibilities in Morbidly Obese. After I got back home to Morbidly Obese, I realized that this town was definitely not where I wanted to live. It was alright, not as bad as I originally thought, but it wasn't where I wanted to live the rest of my life.
Well, folks, after all that history , I've decided to take a giant step in my life, and really move to the town of Ideal Weight. I want to sell my house, take care of all unfinished business and move out of Morbidly Obese and start fresh in that nice town. The reason I had to keep coming back to Morbidly Obese was because of so much unfinished business. That happens when you take up residence in a place. You can't just up and leave. It's a major project.
There are a number of ways I can go about this major move in my life. First I have to find a job in the new town. Then I have to quit and finish up at my present job. I need to take an inventory and decide what of my accumulated stuff I'll take with me, what I'm going to trash, and what I'm going to sell at a garage sale. I have to find a house in the new place. Then I have to sell my house here. It's an enormous amount of work. I can't just pick up and relocate just like that. It has to be planned, and it has to be accomplished in a systematic way.
Okay, so what's happened? I took care of all my business, and packed up my things (sent some things on ahead, and took some with me). I've chosen my path (I guess I'm driving there myself, rather than taking a plane (like Weight Watcher Airlines), which costs more money. I actually used Weight Watcher Airlines to go there on vacation. It was a nice way to get there, but I think I want to map out my own route this time, take my time and see some of the sights. (Personally, some of the other airlines really stink, but I think Weight Watchers has a pretty good flight service.)
So, I'm driving along the road, leaving my life in Morbidly Obese behind forever. I'll miss some of the friends I made there, and I'll miss all the restaurants and grocery stores, but I've heard there's a few places like they have in Morbidly Obese in the new town.
This Christmas, I stopped off the route at a little rest stop. It held up my progress getting to Ideal Weight, and maybe I stayed at the rest stop a little longer than I should have. But I'm back on the road again, still heading the same way.
Sometimes I try to take a shortcut, and I get lost. It takes me a while to find the road again. Sometimes the shortcut works out. I try not to stray off my route too much. There's some dangerous territories out there. I have to make sure I avoid the town of Bingeing. I took a wrong turn one time and ended up there.
So, it may take me a while to get to Ideal Weight. But once I'm there I plan to stay. I'm ready to live there now, not just have a vacation. If I think it's taking too long, or if I run out of gas, maybe I'll just get myself a ticket on an airline. But I think I like going this way. I'm seeing a lot of sites, and learning a lot about the country I live in and the interstate routes.
Love,
Frances
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