The One Nine Oh

Well, about a year ago I started this journey. At that point, I weighed 275 pounds and I had just started working at Visa, Inc. I was serously overweight and perhaps on my way to a variety of health problems. My back hurt a lot, my blood pressure was always up there. My waist was a 46 and moving onward. In short, I was a walking, talking commercial for a failed lifestyle. That was last May. My changes before that was losing a nowhere job for a nowhere company with no future in sight. In December before that, I was mercifully severed. The same month 5 years later that the same company with a different name had severed me before. By the same CFO. A mark of distinction perhaps. The reason I dwell on all this meaningless past is that it had a bearing on my health. The job contributed to coping mechanisms I had around food and beer. I found myself not being able to plan out the future there or even be assured that the company had a vision for a future. A monumental waste of time, life, energy, resources.

Then Visa came along after about 4 months of no work and unemployment. Wow! A job, a manager, a group that I liked. It has just gotten better and better and now I’m moving to a new groove there and have been promised additional platform work around hosting solutions, support services at a global level, and more intricate assignments. In short; they like me and I like them.

But today it came around, folks. I had dieted religiously for about 8 months. I lived the diet, practised better eating habits (fruit, veggies, lower amounts of meat, potatoes). This morning the scale said…

One Nine Oh

I had reached the goal. I just stood there on the scale in some degree of disbelief. You all remember when you set a time-based goal and the time rolls around and you have done it? Its that shaky feeling that the months were worth it after all. But I also knew that I would never go back to the bad eating habits. I had made a basic change in lifestyle. Now I can move on to a new phase and I have the same great job. No more startups or spindowns. No corporate mentality which is a contradiction of terms. I work with people that care and that care about me. It made this day easier to reach. Thanks Scott and Mani for being there. You both probably don’t know about this site; but it does not lessen my appreciation for each of you being there.

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