Nicole Wick is fat and lazy....and doing something about it

Here’s to Nicole Wick.

I know her only through the Internet. I don’t remember, really, how I found her. We “met” a couple months ago when I was promoting the launch of The Lighthouse Project*. She blogs at nicolewick.com about church-related things. One of her most memorable posts was, at least to me, her taking on Mark Driscoll and his wife’s assertions about stay-at-home dads.

*(Should really start writing more in that. Such a good idea. But more on that another time.)

Anyway, Nicole read TLP and loved it and raved about it, and I’ve kept up with her ever since. Last Friday, she announced something. Well, a couple things. The first of them wasn’t so much an announcement as it was a confession: she’s fat and lazy. She said so herself—right in the middle of a post about how she’s going to walk the Detroit Free Press Half Marathon.

It’s a brave, noble and admirable soul that admits to something like that. I have huge amounts of respect for her now. Weird, how you can respect someone you hardly know.

What Nicole is doing – “I am taking my life and my body back,” she writes – will be every bit as difficult as a druggie kicking his habit or a boozer staying sober. Food is good. Awesomely good. Eating is a blast.

So rock on, Nicole. It’s going to be unbelievably difficult sometimes. Probably a lot of times. And probably for a long time. But don’t quit. And truthfully, I believe this half-marathon is only the beginning. You might even still be a little fat by that point. But you won’t be as fat as you are now. And you sure as heck won’t be lazy anymore.

I’m so stoked about this. It’s awesome to see someone fat and lazy own that they are fat and lazy and then charge that head-on.

A little truth always goes a long way. Recognizing the truth about ourselves can sometimes reach throughout a lifetime. And in Nicole’s case, it’ll probably make her lifetime last a little longer.