Challenges are coming your way thick and fast now, and most of you are starting to question your own abilities, and then some of you are taking action, going back to what you know now to be true, and rescuing your challenge and getting yourself well and truly back on course.
Chris L who has done so well in losing over a stone in the first month feels he has a major roadblock in his way, and feels as if the “wheels have come off the wagon” in a big way as he says.
He now works in Newport 15 hours a day, to put food on the table for his family, so he feels as if this challenge is over for him, despite his amazing progress so far!
He asks me what to do, and here’s my response.
First of all I tell him how fantastically well he has done so far and he ought to be proud of his achievements. Then the next step is how to salvage the rest of this challenge for him?
We have 45 days left and he had amazing progress in just 28 days, so I think 45 days is enough for a major transformation against the odds especially after the great start!
A couple of things happen when you work away. You are tempted to go out for a drink after a long hard day, its be expected in some circles. Then, you are eating rubbish you just grab here and there, and the thought of a workout at the end of a 15 hour day is not the most appetising thing in the world!
So let’s take it back and start from scratch for Chris and any of you who are struggling with the “lifestyle” imposed on you!
First of all Chris, remember why you are up there, to earn money for you and you children, that has to be number one I would guess.
Number two, if you want to save more money again, stop eating the rubbish in shops etc and start doing a weekly, or daily shop in a supermarket. Get your wholemeal bread as your job is labour intensive, no margarine or butter (useless calories), buy some cans on tuna in brine, mackerel, salmon, they are very cheap around 70p each, or a cooked chicken and make it last a bit in the fridge.
Buy a ready to eat bag of veg every two days, they are very cheap too and there’s always some on offer. Buy some fruit too every two days. And drink a big bottle of water throughout the day you have filled up in the morning.
Your workouts? Remember what I am always banging on about working out in the morning first thing, because things always “crop up” later, and you won’t feel like working out later in the day or evening. This takes many excuses away for all of us at times.
The home workout you can do in your room and there’s no excuse for your numbers to go down, you have performed really well so far and I believe you have plenty of fight in you so let’s do it, and really crank it up!!
The alcohol thing? In my experience, everyone I know who has worked long hours or worked away and drunk every night looks usually 10-15 years older than they actually are by the time they reach 45-50! Is that where you want to go? It’s not glamorous with these guys, men bitching about life by an empty bar every night? Doesn’t sound too great to me!!
Let’s get back to your children again, are you going to make them proud and tell them the time that the time you went to work away for them to put food on the table for them, you had many challenges come your way, and instead of “joining in with the crowd”, you actually turned it around and worked on your body, you worked on your health and you actually came back with more energy the weekend, so your time with them was higher quality, because you wanted to watch them growing up properly?
And, you put even more money in the family’s bank account by not sending yourself to an early grave or being a burden to your family in the future through ill health, you fought back and you lived the next 45 days like a man possessed and got another stone off? You regained your old strength, your lung capacity and your old sense of drive and enthusiasm??!!!!
Do you really believe this can happen and are you ready to MAKE IT HAPPEN?!! I know you can do it Chris against the odds, and keep inspiring people on this site like you have already.
You have to get life strategies that work in any situation and I have offered you the opportunity to follow them. I don’t wake up every morning at 4am and feel TOTALLY motivated, I have strategies that get me that way.
I eat well, I never drink in the week, I exercise inside and out in the fresh air, and all this helps me sleep well. THEN, I get motivated by most people’s progress, and trying to turn around sometimes so called “lost causes”, that REALLY gets me motivated!!
You have these choices too, you won’t be working away forever and when you do get back home, it will lay down the foundations for you becoming even more successful!
Good luck and make the right choice for you! Let us know your weekly progress, don’t “settle” in life Chris for mediocrity, your future is in your own hands and it looks very good to me!!!
