“Your weight may not be you fault, but it is still your responsibility”
– Shaun Clayton
In a world where we’re looking for quick fixes, fad diets or the next great diet. Constantly scouring for the person who’s finally going to give us answers to that age-old question “why me?”.
I was no different, I spent years thinking the reason I wasn’t happy in my own skin was because of the job I had (free vending machine + call centre = disaster), the genetics I was dealt or because I was lazy and didn’t want to do anything about it, but that when I did want to change that it’d be easy! It wasn’t!
Everything was always because of the situation I was in or because of the cards I’d be dealt and part of that may have certainly been true.
How I needed to hear those words years ago “your responsibility” and maybe you need to hear them now. When I sit and think about what was the one thing that instigated this self-journey into health it was the realisation that no one else was going to fix this problem for me, it had to be me. So, I’m going to do it for you, stop wasting time thinking up different reasons why you’re not succeeding at your goals, stop blaming things that are out of your control, those things are always going to rear their heads it’s how we deal with it that is important. Take that responsibility and say no, not this time, enough is enough. If that’s you and you have joined Slimming World for the 48th time don’t blame the ‘leader’ saying they’re rubbish, make the decision to stick to it in spite of that. Deciding that this Monday is the one and by Tuesday thinking it’s time for a cheat meal, give yourself a chance and say no! Only you can do it, take the bull by the horns and seize this chance you’ve given yourself. Who knows, the might just be the last first step you ever have to take and wouldn’t that be something?
If you can do it, if you can get yourself into that mindset that this time you will succeed I guarantee you it’s so much easier, that internal resilience that no matter how many times people try to put temptation to slip into old in your way you’ll be armed with the weapons to say no and mean it!
That’s what I try to instill into anyone I work with, that fortitude that together we’ll get them to where they want to be but it’s them that makes all the difference!