How Do You Handle Depression?

We must take our depression and turn it into a driving force. For me, I was depressed because I lost my parents. Now when I am depressed instead of eating I go to the gym and take my frustrations out on the treadmill or the elliptical. The amount of disappointment in your life is the difference in the ideal and real in your life. If you expected a lot and didn’t get it then that is your level of disappointment. The best part is we can close that gap through hard work and determination. I never planned on getting up to 460 pounds but I have closed the gap by 130 pounds and counting. You can do it and I am here to help you.

Now when it comes to ideal and real the one thing that will defeat you every time is comparing  yourself to someone else. If you feel like they are better than you then you get depressed or if they are worse off than you, you say to yourself, “at least I am not as bad off as that person”, and you slack off and don’t work as hard.

We need to set goals for ourselves and work towards those goals at an achievable pace. If you are wanting to lose weight don’t hit the gym for an hour a day for a week and get burned out. Start slow and work your way into it. Or if you eat really bad start cutting stuff out of your diet a little at a time and make a lifestyle change. If you go on some crazy diet it will only last for a few weeks or a couple of months and then you are right back where you started. My weight has been a roller coaster ride for years But I have just now realized what I was doing wrong all those years. I was doing it for all the wrong reasons. I would like a girl and try to lose weight, or someone would encourage me and I would do it for them. Or I would look at other people and not like what I had so I would try. You can use that type of stuff to motivate you, but it can’t be the source behind your motivation or it will burn out and you are worse off than where you started because you feel defeated.

My challenge is that you look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you are ready to truly change. Think about your future and what you are doing to those around you. How your problem affects other people. Obesity is selfish. I didn’t care about others, all I cared about was making me happy and fixing my depression. I wasn’t thinking about my future kids having a father die when they are teenagers because of my weight, or my wife someday having to take care of my because I am too big to do it myself. Or all the medications I would have to take for diabetes some day if I didn’t change. Think about how much fun it will be to go into any store and buy clothes and not worry if they have your size or if it is going to cost a lot of money because of how expensive larger clothes are.

We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. To non-Christians that sounds cheesy, but if it wasn’t for God I would not be where I am today. I would not have had the power to keep going

This is a cry from my heart to help people. I was dying and I thank God for the life He has restored in me. I still have a ways to go, but I feel amazing now and know that I will only continue to succeed. Keep your head up and know I am here to help you. Feel free to ask me any questions.