Reflections of where I started and how far I've come:
When Sandra invited me to join the Empowerful! Health and Fitness program, I didn’t have very high expectations about what I could change about my weight. I knew I should lose weight and yet getting to that healthy weight seemed a distant dream. Weight issues, and challenges with my physical image, have been with me off and on most of my life. And in the past few years, I’ve felt I’ve been losing the battle and was pretty close to just accepting where I was, even though I knew it was an unhealthy weight. I’d recently been more consistent in walking at least 4 miles a day 5-6 days a week. And I’d also been using the Fig 8 products, though somewhat inconsistently, and nothing really changed…until this program.
For me this program is filling in the missing links. I know consistency is important – we hear it in our business and it’s the same here - and it's consistency in small steps. I have been amazed how one small step, consistently taken, can make such a big difference. I finally started using the Figure 8 products consistently and I began to learn how to think consistently as a healthy-fit person. The team is also crucial and essential. I’d always done it alone before, which also meant I rarely made any public commitments. Now with our calls, and especially with our blog, I feel part of something bigger, I learn from the challenges and successes of others. And I'm also humbled and grateful when one of you says that I helped inspire you. I'm sure that none of us realize the ripples we are creating and who they are touching. And finally, it’s been about replacing my thoughts with ones that serve the kind of person I really want to be. My new best friend is cognitive dissonance! I’ve lost 15 pounds over a time period that I typically gain 5 or more pounds. And what’s even more amazing, is that I know I’m not done yet – I still have 9 more pounds to lose – and I am doing it. I realize my journey towards being a fully realized healthy-fit person is only beginning. I continue to ‘wake up’ to habits and patterns that are not healthy, whether it’s in my eating, my relationships, my business, or any aspect of my life. And now I know I have the support, the thirst for knowledge and the growing awareness to make better choices and the strength and conviction to say goodbye to those thoughts and habits that do not serve me.
No comments:
Post a Comment