"The secret of getting ahead is getting started" - Mark Twain
I never realised how much growing up would affect my weight and happiness, untill i was sitting at my computer unhappy, a size 16 writing a blog on a diet/fitness motivation website
Throughout high school and university I was never the thin one of the bunch, I have always had a little bit of extra meat on me thanks to my "ghetto booty" (their words not mine) and "Jung Thighs" which is what the woman in my family call our tree trunky legs. But I was always okay with how i looked to other people and how I felt in clothes; I seemed to stay a size 12 (Au) despite having a typical uni life of heavy drinking and 2 minute noodles.
It wasn't until I grauated and started working at the hospital doing twelve hour night shifts that my weight started to increase rapidly, maybe it is because my body is just growing older, maybe my lifestyle caught up with me but I put it down to never knowing whether it is breakfast time of dinner time, sleep time or play time. The only thing i was certain of is when it was time to go to work. Slowly my clothes started not sitting right,I would feel uncomfortable in them after having them on for an hour. One day the zip wouldn't go all the way up and I would have to try the next size up at the store. I didn't mind too much because I was in a loving relationship and didn't really look too closely at the mirror <---Denial! . It happened so slowely and ate away at my confidence bit by bit until I wasn't comfortable anywhere, It would take forever for me to choose outfits, I hated going to social outings, don't even mention the B-E-A-C-H. I was soon covering myself up in front of my loved one - who I was never self conscious in front of.... like HUH who is this person??!!
The whole shift work thing, that's just an excuse, ultimately the reason is me; I got lazy, comfortable and I didn't treat my body like the temple and godess it was (IS)!!
"Excuses are for people who don't want it bad enough"
"Excuses don't burn calories"
NOW is when I take control of my happiness, NOW is when I stop making excuses for my weight, NOW is when I commit to change my life, forever.
"Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do, long after the mood you said it in has left you"