It's been over a month since I did my last blog and one of my goals was to try and do better at being a blogger! I have had a great month with the ladies in my bootcamp challenge. They took 30 days and committed to follow a fitness routine, implement nutrition and look for key emails that would give them points in order to win. I had 4 ladies who were very close in the running just about the whole way. I had others that still hung in there and were successful in there own right.
It takes something deep inside you to really want to change. To finally be done doing what you have always done and just leave it behind. You think you will miss it if you let it go, or that your identity won't be the same if you move forward and gain a new perspective on fitness and health.
You might think that you will fail and because of your fear you don't even try. That is the worse thing you could do because when you let fear override what you truly want to be it robs you of so many victories in your life.
What if you didn't have your freedom to choose? Then you might not have to worry about fear because it would be taken care of for you. When you have no freedom you are trapped. And some people are not free although they have the freedom at their finger tips to choose to change.
What makes a person want to be so obese and miserable that they won't even get up and try to change? Or if they have changed what takes them back to that place that they once hated so much? These are questions I often ask. I don't judge a single person because everyone has a story and although I might see choice and freedom as an easy thing, someone else might find it very difficult. Some people are slaves to food. That seems like a crazy concept doesn't it? But sad to say, millions of people, maybe even billions by now have this food addiction. It is like any other addiction, it grabs their soul and twists so tight and clouds their judgement so they see no light, just darkness and no hope.
I live in a small town, I have seen in my last 3 years of being a business owner and personal trainer, great strides in the transformations that come through my door. When someone meets with me for the first time, I see all sorts of emotions, I hear all kinds of excuses, good ones it may seem to them, but to me, nothing short of having a limb or two absent, and even then, is no excuse to not make that choice and choose to be hopeful and set new goals in your life. All of us have a fire deep inside us that needs to just be lit and remain burning for the rest of our lives.
I love to see the transformations in my clients. It is the biggest joy for me. It is not over night and it is a process. It can be painful at times, it can be very emotional, that is due to the changes that happen within your body, it is not easy, but not as hard as one might think it out to be, it is the ultimate victory when you hit those mini-goals driven to the main goal. What is the main goal? LIFE!
We never get younger, although that would be great for some things in life,however, we don't have to let our bodies go into a state of oldness before it's time. Again, that is our freedom of choice. We can all choose to be more fit and healthier. To add years to our lives and do it in such a way that it is fun and lasting! How do you do this?
By putting one foot in front of the other and just choosing to ignite that fire!
Here is something I bet you have said at one time or other in your life when you wanted to start losing weight. "I will start Monday." And say that is on a Friday, you eat so much junk food and just veg out in front of the t.v., more than normal, if that would be possible, and then Monday rolls around way to fast and your mindset isn't strong enough yet to follow through with the start. For one, you didn't share that with anyone but yourself, so you have no support, which is the number one thing you must have in your choice to change. Some people have to hit rock bottom before they climb up the ladder. It is sad, because it is no one else's fault but their own that they landed in the hospital due to that Monday never coming around. That is my point, your tomorrow may never come so while you have today no matter what day it is, you can start on the road to recovery and your tomorrows will be brighter and if you don't see it then those left behind will have been impacted by your efforts.
So today, no matter what day it is, get up, put one foot in front of the other, and help yourself and others that may be in your same situation, start on a road to freedom, on a magical journey filled with endless possibilities. Have faith and hope in yourself and share your victories with others who are looking for that same hope!
