Tag: healthy lifestyle

You have to be willing to make changes!

I have had a life change this month. This change is a complete 360 from where I was a month ago. I started a new career at the beginning of this month. This is an opportunity to grow and develop new skills and be challenged. It has caused me to adjust my life a bit to stay successful on my journey.

My previous job was in retail, I was on my feet hustling around getting in 10,000 steps per day. So I had a built in if I didn’t get to the gym or got for that walk or bike ride, I got some steps in for the day. Also, had its challenge that my legs were tired after my day so I didn’t feel like going to the gym or go for that walk or bike ride.

My new job, is a desk job. I am sitting all day. I now average 3000 steps at work. I have energy at the end of the day.

So I have a couple of choices that I can make to stay on track with my journey here don’t I?

  1. I can just do the minimal steps I get in everyday, and keep within my points/calories everyday.
  2. I can change and create new habits in my life to stay on the path to my goals.

Lets be honest here, not everyone loves to workout. If you do than you rock! For me it is not my favorite thing to do. I am lazy people! I would rather sit on my butt on my sofa under a fuzzy blanket with music going, a movie on or a reading a good book.

Sitting on my butt is not going to get me to the goals I want to reach.

I have to be agile and open to making a change!! That is what we have to do in life though!! Be open and willing to making changes. Creating new habits is change! Eating healthier, making better food choices is change! Starting a new career is change!

This is a change I have to make on my journey, it is not the first one and it will not be the last one I have to make. Being open and honest with myself that there needs to be some adjustments is the biggest part!

I can make the excuses or I can get up and put my big girl pants on and make the change and do the work!

I am making small attainable new habit changes, to build toward larger goals.

Changing My Perspective

Being on this journey for the last two years and having gotten to this point in my journey, I personally have to change the way I am looking at my progress. Meaning…

Being down to the last 32 pounds I need to lose, that scale might not be moving in big increments. There are always other ways to track and see our progress. The way our clothes fit. The energy we have. Maybe its getting off of medications. There are multiple ways.

Measuring the inches you have lost across your body, is one way as well. This is what I have started this week. Now, I should have started this at the very beginning! But I knew that in the beginning the scale was going to be the thing that moved the most and potentially quickly (not always though). But being at this point in the journey that scale may not move very much? I have also gotten back into regular exercise and want to see those results and how they will transform my body.

So I wanted to share the blank form I found online with all of you. Just in case any of you wanted to change your perspective on your results.

The idea is to take my measurements every week and see the results. set up a goal for myself for the month as well.

The idea is to look at how my entire body is changing. How, I am toning and building muscle. All maybe while that scale is moving by a half a pound a week or not at all.

I actually wish I had done this at the very beginning..but I just didn’t. I would really like to know how many inches I have lost of my body! I mean I could find the size pants and top I was wearing and measure those and look at my current measurements and compare. I am not doing that.

I am looking from today and forward! Here’s to see this journey in a new way!