Moment of Change

On a flight to New York city, Marco was unable to fasten the seatbelt around his waist. His “moment of change” occurred when the passenger next to him turned and said, “Sir, can you move? You are too fat to sit here”. Crushed, Marco landed in New York to hold dressed rehearsals for a musical he was conducting. As his score papers fell to the ground, he bent over to collect them and the dress pants he was wearing tore, stem to stern. Marco wrapped his jacket around his waist and fled the room in tears.

Over time, he ran into friends he had not seen for years and had to convince them that the Marco they knew back then, was still indeed “Marco”, as he was so overweight, his friends did not recognize him. This was crystallized when he one day picked up his mom from the airport after her return from 9 months overseas, and she did not instantly recognize him. A mom, could not recognize her own son! Marco had to wave her on as he proclaimed “I'm over here mom, it's me”.

“What happened to you?” said she, “I could not recognize it was you”.

He began to read everything he could about weight loss, diets etc..., quickly realizing no diet would work for him. After losing some weight while still in New York (by walking), he decided to join a gym once back in Toronto. Marco drove to his local gym every weekday for 3 weeks and sat in the parking lot, fists white-knuckled and clenched to his steering wheel. He was paralyzed by fear and could not summon the courage to walk into the gym due to his embarrassment of being so overweight and out of shape. After 3 weeks, he actually got out of his car and made it to the entrance doors. Again, he was incapacitated by fear. At that moment, exhausted while struggling up two flights of stairs, he silently declared, “If I ever beat this, I am going to tell the world how I did it. I want to be a personal trainer”. Then, he laughed at himself for even allowing such a thought. When he finally breached that barrier, Marco walked up a flight of stairs to the main reception desk and had to stop twice to catch his breath.

After obtaining a guest membership, Marco got on a treadmill and in 3 minutes threw up everything he had eaten all over himself and the machine. He could feel people's eyes on him as the embarrassment weighed on him heavier than his fat or vomit did. He left the gym immediately without even stopping to shower, for fear of being seen naked in the changing room.

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