19th March 2015
Take a risk, maybe you'll fall but maybe you'll soar!
So I'm starting day 11 of being on track, no I'm not ticking
them off, I just worked it out with my calendar - why? Because I don't want anyone to forget I've
been struggling to 'get on it' for over a year now, I really do know how
difficult it is! The one thing I never
did though over the last year was beat myself up, go hard on myself, or berate
myself for my inability to get on track because I know that there is nothing
easy about the process.
My day started with a long conversation with an amazing lady
yesterday who's really struggling to get back on track, like me she'd a stone
over goal, it appears that was a pattern yesterday for quite a few of us, lost
weight and regained a stone of it, none of us had regained all of it though, we
were still a good few dress sizes smaller than where we all started. So one thing I did say to the lady in
question was, "you won't take care of something you don't like" and
it's true, we look after what we love, which is why you should always love yourself
and be gentle with yourself, understand you thoughts and feelings and
acknowledge that you aren't perfect and shouldn't strive to be.
What helped me change how I treat myself was asking myself if
I'd treat another in that way, if I'd talk to them and say those words to
another than I used to say to myself when I looked in a mirror and the answer
was no, which was when I realised I needed to stop treating myself that way. I believe this is why I've kept most of my
weight off for the last 11 years and I haven't regained all of my weight whilst
I've been struggling. I knew I was
finding it difficult not to overindulge but I continued to do the best I could to
eat healthily and take care of myself.
Sometimes when we feel like our life is out of control it
reflects in our eating behaviour, especially if food is a comfort to us and
something we enjoy. Realising and
acknowledging this really helps me, accepting who I am, helped me
enormously. I've also noticed that
getting my eating back under control has coincided with getting my life back
under control, no not much has changed in my life, I've learned to say no a
little more the last few weeks which has made a dramatic difference, but
realising if you can't change things, embrace them, make the most of them
because there's nothing harder than going against the tide, you can swim up a
waterfall so don't even try! If you can
change something - accept it, change the way you think about it, because everything
really can change with a shift in the way you think.
I saw in quite a few this week, that look I had on my face last
week when I went back to my meeting, I'm hoping they too will wake up this
morning and realise they can do it, they've done it before, they can do it
again - actually WE can do it, all of us and together, supporting each other is
how we're going to do it. I love my
Weight Watcher community, it makes me realise that I'm part of a group of
people with the same end goals who understand each other, that's why it works.
We celebrated success in the meetings too of course as we
always do but one thing I did hear and I understood completely was that when
you're struggling yourself, seeing others on track and doing well makes you
feel even more incapable, we shouldn't feel that way, I understand why we do,
but we shouldn't. We need to realise
that every person in that room or that Facebook group has struggled, it's why
they're there in the first place and without sounding negative, they will
struggle again because that's the nature of the beast, I've never met anyone
who hasn't at some point struggled, even after achieving their goal! Us Weight Watchers like to eat, life
sometimes gets in the way, the one other thing we have in common though is we'll
support each other until we get back on track.
Here's to a fresh day, a clean slate, remember even your
worst days only have twenty-four hours and the best time for a new beginning is
NOW!
Take care of you BeYOUtiful. xx
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