After having conversations with many people who reach out for help with their health, many of them have said they were wanting to talk to me for months and months and they just couldn't get up the courage.
I was the same way. After being so healthy and exercising constantly for so many years, around 1999 I began a new job that took a lot of hours and put a lot of stress on me, so I slowly stopped eating right, only went to the gym every once in a while and I slowly packed on 60 pounds of fat over the next 20 years.
What's crazy to me is I did not need to reach out to a coach for advice, I had studied ins and outs of getting healthy and nutrition for so many years up to that point, I didn't need a coach I just needed a good enough reason to get back on course.
So why did I wait 20 plus years to decide to get healthy again?
I fell into a deep deep comfort zone. I fell in love with fast food and sweets. I fell in love with soda. I fell in love with sitting on the couch and scrolling Facebook for hours at a time instead of going to the gym. This became my new normal. In my mind I didn't have a good enough reason to get out of my comfort zone and get healthy again. I knew it needed to happen for literally having a longer life, but I knew how much effort it took and I would keep coming up with excuses not to start.
So when people they have been wanting to build up the nerve for months and months to reach out to me for help I totally understand! To them I am the first step to making a commitment to getting healthier. And if they commit to reaching and don't follow up then they failed again, and we all have that fear of failure in our lives.
The older we get the more we look back on the failures we had during our lives. A lot of that has to do with our health. We know we should eat better and exercise and we just don't do it and the next thing we know 10, 20, 30, 40 years go by. Then after that long we think it's impossible to do, we are convinced that we are now too old to exercise and too stubborn to make changes in our diet. We feel like crap all the time and just believe it's from getting old and not being unhealthy. This couldn't be further from the truth. When I lost my 60 pounds of fat over 6 months I felt amazing!! The aches and pains and everything else bad I felt about disappeared! I am a new person, both physically and mentally. I have more energy now than I had 20s and 30s. I feel motivated every morning when I wake up now to go out and do something amazing. I don't feel lazy anymore. I fall asleep super quickly and sleep like a baby. Literally the things that made me feel like crap for years disappeared. I had convinced myself that all these things were from getting older and getting closer to 60 years old.
I had told myself it's too late to make major life changes in my life. People have no idea how much carrying around extra body fat affects your entire body and mental state.
I started writing this post wanting to talk about how people get older and they feel like they can't make changes in their life. This might have to do with your health or changing your job or starting a new business or fixing your relationships with family and spouses. We truly start to believe that once we hit a certain age life is just what it is and we have to deal with that. Nothing can be further from the truth. If you are alive and breathing you can make major changes in every aspect of your life. it's all about your mindset. You can literally accomplish anything that you set your mind to!
ANYTHING!!!
If you want to reach out to me to talk about changing your health at any age I am here to talk. The first and most important step is actually getting started. Taking 1 small step in the right direction.
You can direct message me on here or send me an email. tracy@gethealthyover50.com
I truly enjoy watching people turn their health around, especially at an older age.
They actually feel happiness they haven't felt in years and years.
So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and take that first step!
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