Get a grip

The last few months have been difficult, with things going on with my beloved’s health, interesting things going on with my business, having time away from home and all against a background of this malarkey that has been controlling our lives. Whenever I am in difficult situations I turn to food. Usually this is fine because I exercise a lot, so I manage and balance my intake and outtake and control my weight. However, this time it was different: I could not motivate myself to consistently exercise. The result? I gained some weight.

The feelings of panic and being out of control were familiar, but this time it all felt different. After all, I was supposed to be the expert on weight loss. What to do? Well, I thought “What would I say to one of my clients?”. First, I would tell them to analyse the ‘why’ of their weight issues: why do they overeat and why now? So, I did that. I often use food as a crutch, as a way of making me feel better, as a way of helping me get through things. From experience I know this only helps in the short term, i.e. while actually eating, and I know that it never helps in the long term. Then I looked at ‘why now?’. I analysed what was actually going on: my beloved has had the same health issues for many years and they are not going away and the rest of my ‘difficulties’ are extremely middle class. In fact I gave myself a good talking to…and I went through the workbooks that clients use, either by themselves, or in Groups or using my 12 week 1-2-1 sessions.

Working through the workbooks I realised that I had become complacent. That is never good, there must be constant vigilance. So now I have reset my head and got back on track, for now. I’m again working on my plan and guess what? I’ve started to lose the excess weight. Once again I’ve got a grip.

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Have fun, stay safe.

Glenys