What You've Been Working On...Is What Shows Up!

I say this phrase all the time to my clients and it is true. What you have been working on is what shows up. Time and time again we take the same steps and expect different results. This doesn't happen in life and it certainly doesn't happen in losing weight. I encourage you to take a hard look at your efforts. Are you including fresh nutritious foods in your meal planning? Are you planning your meals? Are you doing everything you can to maximize your cardio regimen? Are you actually exercising each and every day? If some of these questions make you feel uncomfortable, cause you to feel guilty or cause you to make up every excuse in the book why you are not addressing these areas...then you probably are not working as hard as you can.

It is up to you to make changes in your life. You have the opportunity to make change happen. I see it all the time. People get healthier by making efforts. Is it hard? Absolutely! Is it time consuming? You bet! Will it take a long time? Yes! Okay, now that those main questions are out of the way I'll ask you the most important one. What are you going to do about it? That is the question you should be asking yourself. Excuses why we can't do something are either legitimate or not. Legitimate excuses are those that have merit and provide obstacles that you cannot get around. Those may include illness, injury, sudden crisis etc. Those excuses that keep you from obtaining goals usually are along the lines of.."I had nothing better to eat" or "I just don't have time." If you find yourself making these statements take an inventory of your answers and know that if you don't work hard enough, the results will never appear.

I have worked with a lot of clients. Some of them have physical challenges, some of them have had 7 children to take care of, some of them have been 70 plus in age, some of them have had little money to spare, some of them have had more than 100 pounds to lose. What all of them had in common, however, was the desire to make their lives better. They worked really hard, put aside the excuses and dug in deep. That is what showed up. Their success was measured not pound by pound but by day by day. Each day they pushed through the thoughts of quitting, the barriers they were facing and showed up.

So, it is your life, show up big and big things will come!