When you do something wholeheartedly you get wholehearted
progress.
After having been off for more than six months last year I
decided to come back and reverse the damage I had done over that time. I eased back in. I started gaining strength in the gym upping
weights as each week progressed. I was eating mostly ok….. I continued on like
this. Strength gains were achieved…yet I still hadn’t lost the pounds I wanted.
My weight last week(jan. 24, 2015) topped out at 170 lbs. How discouraging!?
The scale is not going in the direction I wanted it to…but when I really got
honest with myself, I wasn’t eating as well as I should to lose the fat.
I was trusting the process, but I wasn’t fully doing it
wholeheartedly. I knew what I needed to do. I even had a plan laid out and a
meal plan to follow! Why was it so
hard?!? Why couldn’t I just do it like I
did back in 2006.
I do NOT want to be 170 lbs! I want to be in that fit body!
I’ve got to do this!!!
Here’s the thing, even though my weight had gone up I knew I
was getting stronger and I felt like my muscles were growing once again and I
was getting stronger! That was good!
That meant something WAS happening under the skin, under the fat. So my mentor
suggests to me once again I follow the meal plan I had already laid out. If I
did that he felt I should see progress by the end of the week.
So I mentions this to my boyfriend and I question my ability
to be able to do it, as I hadn’t done it yet so far. His response, “You got this !” And so it was with the belief of both my
mentor and my boyfriend that I set out in my mind that I was gonna do it! I had to do it! I couldn’t let them
down! I couldn’t let myself down!
So I set it in my mind!
I’m doing it! I’m gonna stay on plan!
I’ll make my meals and do it! No
exceptions!
So I come into Friday night and decide to weigh myself! 163…and then again on Saturday morning.
162!!! I take my measurements…dropped an
inch on my hips and 1.5 inches on my waist.
Was this a fluke?! I did I actually lose 8lbs in one
week?!? I weighed myself again on Sunday
morning. 166. Maybe it was just water
weight? Either way, the scale went down
at least 4 lbs and my measurements did go down as well!
Take home points for me this week:
Follow the Plan! It works!
Persist!
Believe in yourself like those close to you believe in you.
When you give wholeheartedly, progress is inevitable.
