Waiting for Change

“𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠”, she said.

⁣Oh?
What kinds of changes?

⁣“𝐼𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑, 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝐼’𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ…”

⁣𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑺 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆.
It’s a MINDSET issue.

⁣A mindset that says changes are hard and so they aren’t worth it unless the tests say something that scares us.

⁣Let’s follow the train of thought to the inevitable outcomes…

⁣𝑂𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 1:
Continue current behaviors, which admittedly need improvement.
Get good test results.
Decide that no change is necessary, cuz “nothing showed up on the tests”, even though you obviously don’t feel well or you wouldn’t have had the tests run.

⁣𝑂𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 2:
Continue current behaviors, which admittedly need improvement.
Get less than desired test results.
Then either…
Stress eat and continue poor behaviors because you “can’t deal with any other changes or anything else right now”
𝑂𝑅
Decide to overhaul EVERYTHING at once because you are suddenly panicked and desperate, which disrupts your household, strains relationships, adds stress, and causes you to abandon ship because changes were made that a) weren’t sustainable and b) didn’t fit your actual needs

⁣𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥?

⁣We know that our body isn’t operating at its best, so we go ahead and start to improve the situation instead of wait for “test results”
We know that changes need to be made, so we adjust things systematically and incrementally.
We know that things have to be sustainable, so we figure out ways for these adjustments to become new habits AND we make them ENJOYABLE.
We know that our body is unique, so we work to discover what is best for us as individuals, instead of jumping on the latest fad that everyone is talking about.
We know that we have a tendency to start strong and then falter, so we enlist help along the way to guide and support.

⁣Doesn’t that sound much better than crashing and burning (either now OR in a few weeks)?

⁣𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤?

⁣𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ, 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑎 message, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡. 𝑇𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙. 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑠, 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒.

𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 “𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙” 𝑙𝑎𝑏 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑈𝑇 ‘𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙’, 𝑙𝑒𝑡’𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 ‘𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙’ 𝑡𝑜 𝑂𝑃𝑇𝐼𝑀𝐴𝐿 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑠 𝐷𝑂 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦!

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