How to handle disappointment — Weight Loss or otherwise!

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I had an experience yesterday that I won’t go into a lot of detail with, but I found myself severely disappointed and feeling let down.  Perhaps you know the feeling.  You work really hard during the week.  You eat right, you work-out as planned,  and you even pass right by that tempting desert.  Yet at the end of the week you don’t see the results that you had great expectations for.  Well this disappointment wasn’t weight related, it was people related.  It also didn’t involve days, weeks, or even months worth of work.  It involved years!  Thank goodness I have had this last year to learn a few things.  Otherwise I might have been even more crushed by the results.

First Lesson:  No matter what you think the results should be, they are what they are. You have to dig down to find that hero inside to keep going.  After all why do you do what you do?  Is it the short term results or the long term journey that you are after.  For instance in weight loss.  Loosing weight and adding years to your life is a long term goal.  In the scheme of things does it matter if it moved today?  No what matters is your consistency of doing the right stuff to reach the long term goal.

Second Lesson:  Don’t count on anyone else to get you where you want to be. After all they are so focused on themselves they might not even give you another thought.  Now don’t confuse this with coaching and mentoring.  They are essential to success.  It is just a clear statement that if it is meant to be it is up to me!  I will need to take the steps each day to achieve that dream I have.  I need to stay on my purpose.

Last Lesson:  It is not if there will be disappointments in a journey. There will days when it seems like everything is going as planned.  The scale is moving, people are noticing, you are feeling stronger, and you make all the right choices towards your goal.  Then there will be days that everything seems to go in the opposite direction.  It is on the days that you feel like nothing is changing, you question yourself on if you will ever get there.  Remember this one thing:  “What the mind can conceive it can and will achieve.”  Stay faithful to your journey and mindfully take each step.  You will get there!

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