Strangely enough, one of the best things anyone can tell you from time to time is “have you put on weight?”, even if you HATE that person in that moment.
We have ALL had it, and we go one of two ways. We either buy all black clothes and wear baggy jumpers everywhere, and never go out, OR it’s the kick up the backside we NEED to workout more, to cut the rubbish out of our diet, to drink way less alcohol, cut the takeaways out and realise we have has a BIG wake up call just in time!
When we carry too much weight, our body “handles” it for a while, doing its best. When we don’t exercise, pain tends to increase in our bodies due to the extra we are now carrying daily but again our body handles it (for a time anyway).
Then when we find out our body can’t “handle it” forever, and we have a choice of going on a lot of different tablets daily, just to make us function properly, the stark choices are staring us in the face, PLUS our chances of serious disease go WAY UP. Hate to say it again, but a wake up call is essential for ALL OF US from time to time, and we may need to make some urgent choices because our health cannot be taken for granted anymore.
Your body is not designed to carry excess weight, it WILL rebel in time, and your quality of life will disappear in direct relation to how you look after yourself, don’t think you will beat the system-you won’t.
Your body is meant to move daily, and if it doesn’t, it will throw plenty of spanners in the works until you get the message. If you are struggling to get around right now, and you feel helpless or say “everyone gets older”, you are in denial because you CAN change it, you CAN move a lot better, and the ONLY way to get your motivation back is to get your trainers on and MOVE more, you can’t just pluck motivation out of thin air, move your behind more-full stop!!!
Put the unfortunate horrid combination together of eating and drinking rubbish every day and not exercising and you have the perfect storm for mental health problems and expect anxiety, stress and negative thoughts to become a normal part of your life over time.
Your wake up call will be the best thing you ever had and the gym is waiting to help you transform your health again, it will be the best thing for your immune system, your mental health, it will be the best thing to get back into your favourite clothes, it will make you easier to be around because if you’re carrying more than you should, and drinking and eating rubbish every day, my guess is that you’re not much fun to be around either-at least in private.
Don’t forget I’ve trained a massive amount of people, heard all the stories, heard all the excuses, but treat your wake up call as a GIFT, and until you treat your health as a gift, you will sleepwalk your way into a health situation you’re not going to like or enjoy in any way at all.
Great health is waiting for you, but be prepared to move much more, show up all the time and get all of that rubbish food and drink OUT of your house, because if it’s there, you WILL eat it.
Monday is waiting, you have a choice to make.
