Hi guys.
In this video I'm going to do something a little bit different and share with you my
absolute number one best tip for not only losing weight, but keeping it off.
If you're wondering "who the heck is this old chick and what in the world can she teach
me about weight loss".
I'm going to tell you.
I started my own weight loss journey, transformation or whatever flowery term you want to call
it back in March, 2004.
This was me right before I got started.
I weighed 240 and had just been laid off from my job.
I was a single mom to a six year old boy who was really starting to have extreme social
difficulties at school and showing signs of Autism.
I was getting zero child support.
If you want to talk about having all the odds stacked against you when it comes to getting
fit, I had them all.
I was stressed.
I was depressed.
I had very little confidence.
Just about the only two things I had going for me was the fact that now that I had no
job, I had the 'luxury' of more time to spend actually planning and prepping meals and I
had the support of my sister who was doing the plan with me.
That's it.
Those were the only two things.
I didn't have a gym membership.
Couldn't afford a gym membership.
Had absolutely no fitness equipment at home.
Couldn't afford it and didn't even know what to do with it if I had it.
I had no personal trainer.
There was no nutritionist there to point things out for me and I had very little experience
cooking for myself, very little.
I was lucky that I knew maybe how to boil water and to fry an egg.
That was it.
Of course being laid off from my job I had very little money to spend on groceries.
I was actually relying on EBT, which was basically food stamps.
I wound up spending I think maybe about $7 on a diet book and I read it and I researched
stuff on the internet trying to figure out ways to eat healthier on a budget.
I did some math this morning and figured it's been 4,045 days since I took that first path
to feeling and let's be honest, looking better.
I hope anyway.
I've got to tell you.
If someone did the math or if I did the math for me and figured out how many days I would
need to spend working out and making consistent healthy changes when it came to me eating,
I would have said "f-that.
That's too much".
I went in not looking at the end game.
I didn't even set a goal when I started.
I just woke up that first morning after I had made a plan.
I had done the research.
I figured out what I was going to eat for most of the week and I just told myself "I'm
going to do my best.
I'm going to make good choices all day long".
I am.
I committed to it.
I said "I'm going to make this a spot on day.
I'm going to follow this plan set forth in the book to a T" and I woke up the next day
and I did the same thing and the day after that and the day after that and I've been
spot on with my nutrition and gotten in a workout every single day for all of those
4,045 days.
Heck no.
I still struggle with my nutrition on some days.
I still struggle to find motivation to get the most toughest workouts done.
There have been ups and downs and all arounds and plateaus and you know, everything you
can go through over the course of ten years.
I will tell you that my absolute worst days are usually the ones where I don't wake up
with that intention to make healthy choices all day and these are the days where I wake
up and say "it's going to be too hard today.
I'm going to be too busy.
It's not convenient.
There's such and such going on.
I just can't do it".
The key, the secret to weight loss and keeping it off which I think is the harder part of
the equation is you just take it day by day.
Know that every single day you're not going to be perfect and that's okay because you're
human and nobody is perfect.
The key is you have to strive your hardest to have more on track days than you have very
off the track days.
I want you to go on and to cheer yourself.
Celebrate each day you've been completely or even 90% on track with the way that you're
eating and getting your workouts in.
You should do that every night before you nod off to sleep.
Just say "I did great today.
Today was a great day" and for the days that aren't so great or where you are off track,
don't dwell on them.
Instead of spending the time and the energy dwelling, own up to it and say you've been
completely off and make a plan for the next day and make sure you've got healthy meal
options at the ready, snacks and everything you need and if you have leftovers or whatever,
junk food you've been noshing on an off day, throw it out.
Just get rid of it.
Fresh start.
Clean slate.
Everything is cool.
Don't dwell.
You need to be patient and be kind with yourself and recognize that it is a day by day process
and every little step you take is a step closer to your goal.
It may take you longer than the person who is trying to lose those pesky last ten pounds,
but you can and you will get there if you are patient and kind and consistent and it's
worth every single step that you take and even the missteps that come along the way.
That my friends is the absolute best piece of weight loss advice I could ever give.
As always if you have any questions don't hesitate to reach out to me.
You can email me at coachpetrina@yahoo.com or if you want to get absolute free fitness
coaching from me, you can sign up at makefitwork.com.
It takes like five minutes tops.
That's it, take care and have a great day guys.