Knowledge Demands Change - NO EXCUSES!

I can remember myself as a plump ten year old who hadn't yet gotten to my awesome height of 5ft 2" and weighing myself to find that I was 96lbs and thinking that I wanted to loose weight. I remember leaving high school at 125lbs still thinking that I would like to loose weight. College did the Atkins diet and lost weight coming down to about 143lbs. Started working, dieting trying to reach 150lbs then finally my max weight my brother's wedding at 182lbs. I look back and wonder what's the main thread here in my life? I have always wanted to loose weight. As a result every time I went on the internet or I saw something on TV that said loose weight fast I bought into it. The herbal life, the diet pills, the calorie shifting, cabbage soup diet, Atkins diet, some five day Miami something diet.  I've done them all and don't get me wrong they work and work quickly as they say but from 96 to 125, to 143, to 150 and then 182 what went wrong if they all worked?

Lets see, I knew what to do how to do and when to do so yeah I'd loose 10lbs but that was for the life of the diet which ranged from 3 to l4 days max. So when the diet ended I lost the weight and ate whatever I wanted.

I started various gyms but I figure gyms didn't work cause I didn't loose weight at the gym, I toned but no weight loss and I couldn't understand, people were always showing the work outs to do to loose weight so why couldn't I work out and loose weight?. So gyms were periodical for no more than about three weeks and then work schedule got too hectic, my work out partner wasn't going so I didn't go, I couldn't wake up early enough and there were times when I was just not in the mood and I paid my membership so I could always do the work out tomorrow.

Let's not forget the at home exercise machines that promised me the sexy body that I've been chasing all my life. The total gym was a must have cause Chuck Norris knew what he was talking about, so was the ab lounge and the ab wheel and a rowing machine, the elliptical.  I had them or access to them all and I was still fat? Why? I understood through all of this why I was still gaining weight over the time and that was because I had all of these things but I wasn't using them, I knew all the diets but they were just for a period and I love food so the diet had better not take too long else I couldn't follow it through all the way.

So I had everything at my disposal all the knowledge in the world but no execution, no accountability, no dedication, no consistency, no passion and hence no change. What I did have was my excuses which I hugged to me like a security blanket. There was not enough time, I wasn't feeling emotionally up to it, There was just too much other drama going on, I couldn't afford to eat healthy, I was too shy to go to the gym on my own (what would people think). Finally I started to accept my weight and rationalized that I wasn't meant to be skinny and I looked good fat anyway.

Pure undiluted RUBBISH! I was never comfortable in my own skin, the confidence I strove to display was false and I bordered constantly on being depressed because through all the excuses and rationalization I wasn't who I wanted to be. What could I do?

Here's what I did, I stepped in FRONT of my excuses and rationalizing.  The day wasn't gonna get more hours into it so that I could maybe find the time to work out, my emotions weren't gonna shift into happy just before I started to work out, drama was gonna always be in my life, eating junk food was more expensive than cooking, people will always have an opinion but none of them can live my life. It all came back to me and my not taking accountability for my lifestyle and the things that I did to get where I was.

So I executed and became consistent, I developed passion and then, I saw change. My work out schedule no longer fits into my life, my life FITS into my work out schedule. I make no excuses so I will have no regrets, I show up every day even when I don't want to, I am no longer comfortable, I have exited my comfort zone and HERE I have found results.











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