Reflections On A Weight Loss Journey – The Catalyst To Start

Today I shimmied to the very beginning of my Instagram feed.  It’s rest day today and I was having a little brew in bed and watching the rain cascade down the window.  I look a little journey back on my feed and it’s only when we give ourselves the opportunity to look backwards we see just how far we’ve come. 

Getting to the beginning of the feed I partially recognise the person looking back at me.  She was tenative but there was a ripple of determination.  

Here’s the thing.  The girl who greets me at the beginning of that feed had made a decision.  She’d made a decision that shit needed to change but what did that even look like? 

It would have been easy to make a whole load of goals that felt enormous and that were overwhelming.  I could have looked at how many stones (yes stones) I needed to ditch but that would have been so – as it would have felt far too far away. 

I could have immediately thought about running a half marathon and replicating times from my 20s but that would have seemed ludicrous. 

HERE’S WHAT I NEEDED TO DO.  I NEEDED TO MAKE A DECISION TO; 

1️⃣ Stop half arsing it.  I either decided to go all in, look at lots of areas of my life and make small tweaks and changes or I needed to shut up and be satisfied with half arsed results 

2️⃣ I needed to make a decision to back myself.  Not for weeks or months but a daily commitment to do what I could, in that day, to move forwards

3️⃣ I needed to take responsibility for the decisions I made and not just have the shrug of “ah well, fuck it” and then feel shit about making that decision.  If I wanted to do shit then I had to consciously show up and do it and it never be a deal breaker. 

4️⃣ I needed to give up the stories and excuses and instead it should be a “why not me?” attitude. 

DECISION MADE – stay uncomfortable, growing larger and getting more unfit and unhealthy OR make some changes, for me, for those around me, for my healthy, sanity and to truly enhance my life experience (and expectation). 

In the next article I’ll write about exactly how I got started but for now it’s simply about making the decision to start, taking resposibility and making a commitment to yourself.  

The choice is ours!