Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by
change.
WOW to Kellie and Tracey who have both been trying to earn
as many Activity ProPoints as they could this week, they’ve had a little
competition going on between them on facebook, they ended their week with 70pp
earned for Tracey and 75pp for Kellie – both awesome, so well done ladies.
Another awesome yesterday was Denise achieving her 19 stone
weight loss mark, which is just beyond comprehension isn’t it! Three years sticking to it, that’s really hard
work, and what keeps her going is a before photo on her phone and all the
support she gets from everyone else. I
can’t explain how proud I am of her, and all my members to be honest, because
it is such a tough journey at times.
Last night I covered a meeting in Pelsall and I told them my
Weight Watcher story, it’s been a while since I did that in a meeting and I
enjoyed realising how far I have come, how much I have changed since losing my
weight and becoming a leader. Actually
personality wise I haven’t changed but I have allowed myself to be the real me,
I used to hide the real me and put on a front I think for fear of looking
silly, I’m not sure, low self esteem I suppose.
It wasn’t just losing weight that gave me the confidence to be ‘ME’ it
was learning to love myself and accept myself for who I was warts and all. I’d lost weight so many times but was still
never happy, still wanted to be slimmer, more toned etc whereas this time I almost always look in the
mirror and think ‘yeah you’re okay’, don’t get me wrong I have my “dog rough”
days but they’re few and far between.
I think what cheers me the most is realising that when I did
decide to let everyone else see the real me, it turned out they actually like
this version, she’s quite popular, that makes me smile when I think about
it. There’s no better feeling than being
accepted for who you really are. None of
us are perfect, but that’s what makes us so amazing, for example I know I talk too fast, even faster when I’m
excited, I do try to slow it down but I don’t always remember, I do everything
too fast – eating, drinking, walking everything except running actually which I
wish I could do faster but you can’t have it all.
So if you’ve tried so many times to lose weight before and
failed maybe you’re only working on half of the problem, its not just about
weight loss, it’s about learning to love and accept yourself regardless, when
you do that you’re more likely to want to take care of yourself too. It’s true, I eat much better now, yes I still
indulge but overall I want to feed my body good healthy food that will fill me
with energy and nutrition, and by doing so I’m much healthier and happier.
As we talked about enjoying the journey in the meeting,
instead of going for the all or nothing approach, it was great to see so many
nodding heads, better to lose slowly and enjoy your food than to lose 1/2stone
one week, then crave everything the week after because you overdid the dieting
the week before! The people who have
long term weight loss success make small changes that they are able to keep
going, rather than being tough on themselves, working harder and setting big
challenges. It’s been proven that big
efforts to make a change can be counter productive because they trigger the fight
or flight response in the brain which stops us acting positively towards our
goals. We feel we’ve failed when really
we’ve just sabotaged ourselves by setting too enormous a challenge!
So today decide to be realistic, look in the mirror and
realise your beauty, acknowledge how wonderful you are and work on one thing at
a time, you’ll be amazed how it helps you to shrink a little at a time. xx
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