Labels

So last night I was laying in bed ready to fall asleep and all of a sudden the word labels popped into my head. So for the next 45 minutes I laid in bed and thought about the word labels and what it means. Labels has such a variety of meanings...but at the end it has the same outcome. We have labels on our clothes, food, anything that we purchase has a label. The tax bracket that you fall in, your labeled, what you believe in, where you go to school, work, the circle of friends you hang out with, your relationships, politics, backgrounds, how much you weight, how you look and dress, the state you live in, your business encounters, the list goes on and on....all of us have a label. When you sit and think about it, if every we where to put a sticker on ourselves of all the labels we are....you'd be covered.

The other thought I had was that many times we let labels define us. But what many of us forget is that a label should never define us, we should define it. I watched about 45 minutes of the Biggest Loser last night. My heart broke and I actually had to turn it off. You'd think at this point I'd be encouraged by these people stories, but there was so much emptiness and pain shared last night that I actually found myself wanting to eat a bag of oreo's. I didn't, but it just made me re think where I've been, the hurt I've felt and how I dealt with it. We're a country, a nation of unhappy overweight people...see I just put a label on most Americans. Yikes...see think about today, what do you label in your life? Then decided if the label is defining you or if your defining the label. Food for thought....

Weight loss: -1

Total Weight loss: -96 pounds.