Find your reason.....

I want you to ask yourself a few important questions...

Why do you want to be healthy?

Why do you work out?

Why do you want to lose weight?

Why do you want to get in shape?

 

Is it because you want to feel good about yourself and have more confidence?

Is it because you want to look more attractive to the opposite sex?

Is it because your worried about your health?

Is it because Linda at work lost a load of weight and you feel like you need to do the same?

Or are you not sure why?

While your thinking about that I'll quickly tell you my reasons....

First and foremost I do it because I enjoy it.

I enjoy the feeling of living a healthy lifestyle.

I love feeling fit and strong in the gym.

I like feeling fresh, well nourished, energised and alive.

I also do it because I want to grow older hopefully without any health problems. 

Most important to me though is I want to watch my daughter grow up. I want to set the example to her. I want to be around for the day I get to walk her down the isle. (Not too soon though!)

I basically want to give myself every opportunity to live a long and healthy life without worrying what the side effects of my lifestyle are doing to my body.

Now back to you....

Whatever reasons you have for embarking on a healthy lifestyle, it doesn't matter what they are, you should be proud of. 

What I'm getting at here is I believe everyone needs to find there own personal reasons for wanting to lead a healthier life. And you need to keep those reasons or goals in the forefront of your mind if you ever feel yourself slipping back to your old bad habits of bad diet choices or sedentary ways of life.

No one is a saint 100% of the time, I know I have my bad days. And 1 bad day here or there is not going to ruin your chances of achieving your goals.

But always remember your reasons for starting your journey to a healthier you.

They are a much better option than the alternative.

The beginning.....

It is almost 2 years to the day that I made the conscious decision to change my life forever.

I remember it well because England were playing in Euro 2012 and I had just watched them get knocked out of yet another tournament on penalties. This time by the Italians.

I had been at the local pub with my wife and friends, like most weekends, and returned home with a large meat feast pizza and a few more cans of lager to drown my sorrows.

After staggering up to bed a couple of hours later I caught a glimpse of my naked body in the mirror just before collapsing on the duvet. It did nothing to lighten my already miserable mood.

The truth is I was in a bad place with my body, my health, and without really realising it, my life in general. More to come on that in a little while.

Anyway I woke up the next morning, standard hangover in full effect, and said to myself enough is enough. It was time to make a change.

See the thing is I have always been relatively fit and healthy. Never the most athletically gifted or physically strong person in the world but in decent enough shape due to playing various sports and going to the gym off and on for years.

But I was now a thirty-something adult male who liked a beer and takeaway too much and it was taking its toll. Big time! Out of shape, over weight, a little lost in life to be quite honest. It had to change right now or I knew it was a very slippery slope from here on in.

Making that decision to change is by far the best choice I have ever made. But that's the easy part. It's the actual following through with the change that is the hard part.

I mean how many times have we woke up with a stinking hangover and said 'that's it, I'm never drinking again' or looked at our bodies in the mirror and said 'right I'm going on a diet tomorrow I need to lose some weight'.

We do it all the time but it never seems to last for longer than a week or two at most.

Well this time it was different for me. I made the decision to do something about my health and I stuck to it.

Two years down the line and I can honestly say that I am in the best shape of my life, and much much more than just physical shape as well. My life has changed unimaginably. And so can yours if that's what you want it to.

I am here to tell you that change is possible. If I can do it then anyone can. And more than that I am going to tell you how you can do it too.

It's not easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is really is it.

But believe me it is worth it.

And trust me, I promise you can get to where you want to be too.

It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle.

Come join me on the journey.......

Let's get the party started!

So... Ive been thinking for a while about starting some sort of diary or blog. I've kept putting it off however as I didn't really know where to start or exactly what to write about. 

The truth is I don't know where this will take me or if I'll even keep it up, but for now I'm just gonna get started.

Chances are these blogs/logs/diary posts, I don't even know what to call them, will probably turn into random musings, ramblings or even rants. I reckon it'll be fun however to read back over them in time and see how my crazy over active mind was working on any given day. 

Whether or not anyone other than me will ever read them I'm still not sure about. We'll see. I mean who wants to read about my life.

Saying that I have got a good story to tell. My journey from fat to fit has been life changing for me. 

And if I can help inspire even just one other person to make a positive change in their life then it will all be worth while.

I guess I better start at the beginning....