SerenityValley
Surgically happy.
Been meaning to write this for a while - and I've forgotten half of what I wanted to write, but I was reminded this afternoon about it, so wanted to muse on it for a moment and perhaps help people starting their journey.
I'm almost 37 - and have watched the last 20 years disappear into a black hole, not completely wasted but large chunks of it certainly.
Every year I was thinking "next year". Every month I was thinking "next month".
I was thinking "when" I lose weight.
And the time just passed me by.
I tried pretty much every diet going. And always gave up because of the time it was taking, or going to take. It is so easy to think "it's going to take a yera. That's so long. I can't do it" and the moment you utter those words, or think those thoughts you are doomed to failure.
All those plans, all that hope, it's gone because time is such a large, immovable object.
Only it isn't.
It's a constantly moving, forever changing, fast and furious ride - where your whole life can pass you by and leave you wondering what the hell happened.
Think about every year - how on earth did it get to be Christmas again already? It flies by.
So it's the end of march now and there are 9 months between now and Christmas. If you can get it in your head solidly, that Christmas is coming regardless of whether you're your current starting weight, or whether you're your current target weight.
I chose last september to say goodbye to "Fat Andy". I became "Losing Weight Andy". I'm not "Healthy weight Andy". And yet, it could have been so different. I could have STILL been "Fat Andy", because time waits for no man, no woman, no person - it flies by.
So which person do you want to be? As you are now, or who you could be?
GOOD LUCK!
I'm almost 37 - and have watched the last 20 years disappear into a black hole, not completely wasted but large chunks of it certainly.
Every year I was thinking "next year". Every month I was thinking "next month".
I was thinking "when" I lose weight.
And the time just passed me by.
I tried pretty much every diet going. And always gave up because of the time it was taking, or going to take. It is so easy to think "it's going to take a yera. That's so long. I can't do it" and the moment you utter those words, or think those thoughts you are doomed to failure.
All those plans, all that hope, it's gone because time is such a large, immovable object.
Only it isn't.
It's a constantly moving, forever changing, fast and furious ride - where your whole life can pass you by and leave you wondering what the hell happened.
Think about every year - how on earth did it get to be Christmas again already? It flies by.
So it's the end of march now and there are 9 months between now and Christmas. If you can get it in your head solidly, that Christmas is coming regardless of whether you're your current starting weight, or whether you're your current target weight.
I chose last september to say goodbye to "Fat Andy". I became "Losing Weight Andy". I'm not "Healthy weight Andy". And yet, it could have been so different. I could have STILL been "Fat Andy", because time waits for no man, no woman, no person - it flies by.
So which person do you want to be? As you are now, or who you could be?
GOOD LUCK!