Today is a great day, everyday is a great day! We can choose to walk through life miserable and unhappy, or we can choose to do the opposite. When you are unhealthy, overweight, and making bad choices it is difficult to greet each day with a positive attitude. You wake up everyday and you don't feel well. Your body aches, your head hurts, and your mind is clouded. When you begin to treat your body the way it should be treated, a funny thing happens. You attitude changes and you greet each day with a smile and look forward to all the possibilities that lay before you. You may wake up with an ache or pain, but it's because you busted your butt in the gym last night, and even if it hurts, it still brings a smile to your face because you know the hard work you are putting in is working. When you start making healthy choices in the foods you put in your body it's no surprise that your body responds amazingly and begins to function the way it was meant to. When you wake up feeling good and good about the choices you are making it radiates into everything you do.
At my highest weight I was over 380lbs. I could barely walk to the top of the hill in our neighborhood without feeling like I was going to die. It takes hard work, dedication, and making healthy choices to achieve your goals. Every day is not a walk in the park but with each step you get closer to being the person you were meant to be. So often we blame others or circumstances for our downfalls. The truth is once you being to hold yourself accountable for your actions and where you are in life, the sooner you can begin to become a better person. More authentic and more real. There is a healthy you inside of all of us just waiting to get out. There are temptations all around us but that does not mean we give into those temptations. Once you begin the transformation into a better you, the things that once tempted you no longer have that control over you. You begin to look forward to those fresh fruits, veggies, and lean protein. You get up and can't wait to get your gym time instead of that morning breakfast sandwich from the fast food joint down the block.
Food no longer runs your life. Ask yourself this question. Have you ever been eating a meal but were already thinking about what you will have for your next meal? This is when food controls your life. Break the cycle and change your thinking, change your attitude. Get off the couch, put down the cheeseburger, and hit the weights. Go for a walk. Bottom line do something to better yourself. You owe it to yourself and the people that love you.
Three specific goals I have with this challenge are first to live up to the no limitations attitude. Being overweight and unhealthy limits what you can do whether you want it to or not. I will no longer allow my unhealthy lifestyle to hinder anything I want to do. The second goal is to be a good example for everyone in my life and even those I do not know. Do not only talk the talk but walk the walk. When you live a healthy lifestyle it motivates others to do the same. I am not a father yet but when I am I want my children to live a happy and healthy lifestyle and I will be the best example for them to do that. The third goal is to live. Live a long happy life. The years that an unhealthy overweight lifestyle have taken from me, I want them back and I will get them back. I have a lot more to do in this life and I want all the time I can get to do it!
I have learned that only you can hold yourself back. Only you can set limitations on yourself. Do not live life chained to anything. Live free, healthy, happy and know that no matter what you want you can go get it if you just work hard enough.
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