A Real Secret

Yesterday's blog made me think about something...secrets. Let's chat.

The definition of the word "secret" is as follows:

• not open or public; kept private or not revealed 
• not expressed
• hidden 
• confidential 

That means that if I had eaten something "naughty" yesterday and not told you guys, it would have been a secret. The only people who would have known (since no one was home) would have been me and me. The moment I shared the information with someone, it wouldn't have been a secret anymore.... And let me tell you, if I had done that, I wouldn't have told ANYONE...it would have been a REAL secret...or would it have been?

You see, I think the guilt, anger, disappointment, sadness - OK, let's be honest - the truth would have been all over my face. I would have tried my best to believe it wasn't, but I think it would have been pretty obvious.  

Food is something we lie about all the time. We keep these secrets, thinking no one knows, and lie, thinking everyone believes us when the TRUTH is all over our faces.

We bring pants into the dressing room in a size too small and walk out saying, "I just didn't like them."

We go to weekly weigh-ins and say we followed our "plans," only to weigh in at the same weight (or more) and swear we don't know what happened.

 

We smile and say, "I'll pass," when chips, brownies or cake are offered, but then, in the comfort of our own homes, when no one is looking, we create these secrets - which slowly become continual, enabling, sickening, uncontrollable lies.

Instead of lying to ourselves, we need to look in the mirror and deal with what we see. We need to make one of two decisions. We can choose to live in our current lives without complaints, OR we can choose to put forth the honest effort necessary to make changes. The one choice we do not have is to lie behind closed doors...because sweetie, the truth is all over your face!