After having kids and struggling with losing the baby weight, I remember getting hit with this one phrase from a lot of people around me, "just don't put it in your mouth, it's just not worth it." Well, I really wasn't eating that much or that bad but obviously I wasn't doing something right..and even when I did exercise..nothing seemed to help budge my weight at all. I could have done it like I did between my 1st and 2nd pregnancy and that was pop pills and pretty much starve myself as much as I could in order to watch the numbers on the scale budge but realizing that probably wasn't the smartest thing..I refrained.
I knew doing it the right way would be through "sweat and tears" and that saying definitely has new meaning to me these days. As your body changes and your life changes, you not only go through a physical transformation but a mental and emotional transformation too. The ones who have been through it knows it really is a huge lifestyle change! It's finding out what works for you and having people support you on the way. But where does the motivation come from. It comes from your WHY?
What makes you tick? What gives you the motivation to keep going? Is it a person, an object? What gets you up and moving in the morning? You have to find that reason that will keep you going. Once I discovered my Why, everything made sense to me and it gave reason to what I was doing. God, my kids and my husband are my WHY? It made me really think twice about decisions I made and how I treated my body. It wasn't fair to them to starve myself and damage my body, it wasn't WORTH eating like crap because it did nothing for me. I learned how to fuel my body to keep it going, not bog it down and trash it with bad food and decisions.
It's like the Why I had when I quit smoking. I remember going to visit my grandmother after she was diagnosed with emphasemia and seeing her struggle to breath because her long life history of smoking and what it had done to her internal organs. For 40+ years that she smoked, she never saw what it was doing to her internally until it was too late. That really hit home for me because at 29 years old, the damage you do now might not make a difference in how you look but when your 50 or 60 years old, those effects take a hit on you and nothing that can be reversed. What you do now is so important for the longevity of your life. You just have to change your mindset and realize that you are only given one body for your entire life so taking care of it now is sooooo incredibly important. I want to take care of myself now so that way when I am my grandparents age, I can watch my great grandkids grow up and not be stuck at home on an oxygen tank or shriveled up b/c of bad decisisons I made when it really mattered the most.
So, stop and think what your Why is and what would get you to start buckling down and getting serious about making some changes in your life. It's time to get serious and stop making excuses! Sometimes it's all about shifting priorities and putting forth the resources to make it happen!!!
