Stop Complaining, Start Doing. It’s Your Own Fault.

As a personal trainer, I hear myself repeating the same message over and over again to people who ask how to lose weight….

If you want to change your life, you have to change your choices.

All too often, this is a message that just doesn’t seem to resonate.

I can’t make this any clearer, if you want to look like an athlete, you have to live like an athlete. No, you can’t have a Big Mac at lunch. No, you can’t drink a bottle of wine every evening. Yes, it does matter if you skip your gym session. No, you can’t have cake every day. I know exercise is hard, but it’s worthwhile.

Until a person becomes a client, they just don’t understand how quickly they can change their health. They don’t understand how easy it is with a few simple behavioural and nutritional changes. Of course, there are things you give up, but you get back so much more.

I spend my day helping people who have made a decision to change their lives, and act accordingly. These are people who realise that in order to look, feel and perform a certain way, there are certain lifestyle choices you have to make. These people make those choices and enjoy the benefits that come along with them.

 Your choices create your habits. Your habits create your lifestyle. Your lifestyle creates your health. Your health determines your happiness. 

There is no shortcut to fitness and health. You have to do your exercise. You have to eat well. You also have to do these things consistently. Eating a salad once per week but pizza every other night is going to leave you fat, unhappy and unhealthy. You won’t drop 20lbs in a week, but bit by bit you will get there.

I see my personal training clients as early as 5.30 in the morning and as late as 10.00 at night. These people prioritise their health over other things as as such make a point of fitting their exercise into their days – whenever that might be.

If they are busy in the days, they train before or after work. If they have family time at the weekends but want to train, they get up earlier than the family and head out to exercise, arriving home before the family are up.

They don’t see time as a problem, they make time.

So, before you update your Facebook status about how tired you are, how fat you feel, how unhappy you are, ask yourself the question ‘did I get myself into this shape?’

I bet the answer is YES. Now, you can bitch and moan, OR, you can do something about it.

It’s your choice.