Turning Your Pain into Your Fitness Platform

Change can be a painful process. It’s uncomfortable. It’s unfamiliar. It’s time-consuming. When it comes to weight loss, these concerns can become the downfall to your weight loss success. We have to face our insecurities, guilt, and shameful thoughts that can turn into excuses. It is hard to admit to being overweight. You may have health issues that are tied to your weight gain, and it is easy to feel guilty. Sometimes we are embarrassed of our looks, and let shame paralyze us. In order to reach our goals, we have to forget about how we got to this point and turn these emotions on their head.
To be insecure according Google means, “not confident or assured; uncertain and anxious.” All we tend to see are the numbers on the scale and go into a panic. How am I going to lose all this weight? Can I really be disciplined enough to change my eating habits? How long will it take before I see results? These questions can feel heavier than the weight you are actually carrying on your body! The key is to change your inner dialog. Instead of how am I going to lose the weight, you should ask yourself what are the benefits of losing weight. Instead of how are you going to change your eating habits, you should ask yourself what healthy habits you have now that you can slowly increase into your daily regimen. Instead of how long will it take to see results, you should ask yourself how you can set smaller goals to reach your overall weight loss goal.
Guilt according to Google means, “culpable for or responsible for a specified wrongdoing.” There are many diseases where weight is the trigger or the actual cause of the condition. Once realized, it can add pressure to an already painful situation. You may look in the mirror and think I did this to myself. While it may be partially true, it is also an admission to your power! You are responsible for the actions that you make, and since actions are precluded by thoughts, your positive thoughts can turn into positive actions. Starting today, make a resolution that you come first. You cannot help others when your health is compromised. It is not only okay, but an absolute necessity when your health is at risk. At risk or at further risk, means that you have a golden opportunity to stop or even reverse the damage that has been done. When you keep that in the forefront of your mind, the actions that follow occur naturally. You may restock your kitchen. You may buy a food scale to monitor your portion. You may research healthy recipes with your favorite foods. Before you know it, you have lost weight and changed your lifestyle with just one powerful thought. You are worth it!
Finally, shame is defined as by Google, “a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.” There have been times that I looked in the mirror with tears in my eyes. I couldn’t pinpoint how or when I had gotten to this point. I was 50 pounds lighter just two years ago and now I weigh the most that I have ever weighed in my life! My clothes don’t fit, my body looks so much different than it did before. I question if my husband is still attracted to me. I quickly become out of breath and now have to use an inhaler twice a day.  It was a good just a week ago…well maybe a month or two ago. Maybe longer. Then we spiral into the past and happened upon painful truths and behaviors that got us to this particular moment. The moment that you forgive yourself for yesterday and live in the now. Now you put yourself first without guilt. Now you recognize your insecurities as clues to solve my weight loss journey. Now you know you are worth it! Phatskinnychics do work out and it’s time to show the world. You are worth that “risk.”