Think back to your physical self back in school, you could run, often flat out in a sprint, you could jump and skip about the place.
You didn’t often get tired, and probably back then you didn’t drink much water even like most kids do today.
You left school and you still maybe continued to run, but didn’t often sprint if ever. You almost never jumped, and you suddenly could eat what you wanted, not what your parents told you to eat, and you could do it without judgement.
This was “freedom”. You didn’t have to much more anymore, no double PE, nobody shouting at you to get into your kit.
I’m a massive believer in our ability to make our own decisions, to think for ourselves, and accept the consequences along the way, good and bad.
Go back to your school years again, for most people the best physical condition you have ever been in, because of the way we used to move and the variety of that movement, we didn’t think about it or plan it, we just did it.
After school freedom means choosing to do exactly what we want, even if it means ordering fast food most nights, having a drink when we want and choosing not to move much, becoming more of an expert on the latest TV series is more important than thinking about moving our bodies.
The weight gradually comes on ever time, we can do two things. We either buy bigger clothes that intentionally aren’t meant to show our true shape and size, and kid ourselves that’s it’s ok not to move, feel low in energy and mood, and things will somehow become better by eating and drinking more.
Or we say enough.
We slowly get back to where we were as kids in school. We won’t get there overnight, but if we use progressively harder movements over time from a gentle start, getting a little better each week, then we will begin to recover our self-pride, self-esteem and even our self-confidence and ambition we often had as a kid in school.
Nothing is beyond you, and once you say “enough I’m not going to take this anymore”, you will be at the point where you are willing to turn your ship around, get a plan together to eat better and move more, and the wind begins to be at your back again.
You have all the freedom in the world again to make your own choices to get to feeling like a kid again and moving like one, give yourself time, it’s not going to be easy but patience and tried and tested plan on how to do it will literally change your life physically and mentally.
