I’m 26, Prev weight: 240lbs CW: 216lbs GW: 140lbs
Five years ago, I experienced what I considered a major failure in life, followed by a series of minor ones. Growing up, I was always told my identity was my intelligence so when I failed, I started to believe that I was a failure. And some people in my environment constantly told me so too. So My mental health and consequently physical health, suffered for that and for 5 years, I would ‘try’ to get out of this low point by setting goals to accomplish but not once did I really believe I could do it. So due to the lack of trust in my abilities, inconsistency, health challenges, I just never stuck to one thing long enough to see results.
This year though I started a different approach. I told myself I would build just one habit at a time. So I started with my physical health. I wanted to build consistency instead of losing weight. So I used physical exercise to do that. What I did was; I made every goal ridiculously easy. I told myself to just do 5 mins/day. That’s all I had to do. So what that did was, my mind would go “it’s only 5 mins”, so then I was self-motivated to start on this easy goal. Secondly, whenever I completed it, I was proud of myself and lastly, whenever I completed more than 5 mins, I was ecstatic! Inspired my my actions.
All I had to do was only do 5 mins everyday. So eventually 5 mins of working out turned to 10, 30 mins and so on. So I built consistency through physical exercise and in 6 weeks, I kid you not, I lost 24lbs, through a combination of cutting out soda, working out, getting my veggies & fruits through smoothies and eating in smaller portions.
This lifestyle change drastically affected other areas of my life because seeing the result of my consistency changed my mindset from “I can’t do anything in life” to “OMG I really can!!” It’s like I just started living again. Haha. I’m building myself up again and I couldn’t be more proud of my very slow and gradual progress. Hope my story encourages someone on their journey.
TLDR; My approach is to use fitness to build habits very gradually, focus on consistency as a primary goal, weight loss as a secondary goal. Defeated a deeply rooted mindset of “I can’t do anything” when I saw results of my consistency.
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