Cycles

I have been here before. It’s a cycle. Get pumped to get results, get some results, then shrink back to where I started. How am I going to break the cycle?

This time around, I am focused on a specific outcome. I want to lose 30 pounds. But see, that’s the thing: it’s a want. It’s got to become a must. I must lose 30 pounds. That’s more powerful.

Why?

I am tired of being overweight. I have been overweight for 20 years. I have said I was going to do things about it in the past, but the net result is that I haven’t really. The only time that I have lost significant weight is when my wife passed away in late February of 2022. I was in constant motion because I was so disturbed. I lost about 25 pounds by just walking and not eating as much. That didn’t last long, and it wasn’t really purposeful. It was grief.

How am I going to get in control of my diet? My current habit is that I don’t plan meals. I just wing it. I go out to eat most dinners, and it’s just whatever I feel like eating that night. That has to change if I am going to experience the results that I want. I have to plan healthy meals. It’s the only way. That will be a big shift in habits for me. I can do it. Just one day at a time.

The other habit that I need to build is being more active. I am sedentary. Most days I sit in front of a computer. I need to walk and move around more. I need to get into a stretching routine. I need to get into a workout routine. One step at a time, though. I’ll focus on getting the habit of walking down, and then add in the other things one thing at a time.

I must focus on this. It’s important. I’ll be 50 in a little less than 6 months. I don’t want to enter my 50s being all overweight and out of shape. I did that in my 30s and 40s. Not again. It’s over. I refuse to do it. There’s a fork in the road, and I am choosing my health over being comfortable. I have been comfortable for way too long.

These next days are critical. I have to build a good foundation of habits in order to reach my goal. I can do it. I will do it. I must do it.

Meditate. Enjoy!