Stop Making Excuses, Start Making Progress!

I had made excuses and put off doing this for so long - it felt like wasted time. Why had I waited so long? What was I so afraid of? It seems silly now looking back - though I know a lot of us do this to ourselves. Change is hard. But usually the script we have running through our heads make it out to be way harder than it is in reality!

“That won’t work for me” “I’ll starve if I have to give up grains and beans” “I don’t think I’d be able to live without...” those were just some of the things I’d tell myself the many times I contemplated making the switch to a Paleo/Primal diet.

I knew I needed to change something - what I was doing was just not working anymore! My pants were getting tighter (again!), I was tired and achy all the time, my sleep sucked, and I had no energy - I just didn’t feel good!

My coworker had been “doing Paleo” for years and had had a lot of success with it for both health and weight loss. We talked about it often, she pointed me to a couple of websites and I was definitely intrigued but just thought that there was no way that I could eat that way.

I had a whole list of excuses of why I couldn’t/wouldn’t be able to do it. I’m a horrible cook, I don’t have time, how can I give up (insert food of the moment), I’m too picky, I don’t like veggies...you get the picture!

It literally took me a whole year of reading and learning about this stuff before I got out of my own damn way and jumped in!

I just got to the point where I was literally just so sick of feeling sick and tired. I didn’t want to live this way anymore. I was not living; I was just existing, trying to get through the day....

I had to do something and that something was getting out of my own head! I could continue to make excuses AND continue to just keep living this way or I could suck it up and make a change! What’s the worst that could happen - I was already living my worst-case scenario?

I quit the excuses. I stopped the negativity. Instead I took it as a challenge - do it for 30 days. If I didn’t like it, if I starved, I could just go back to doing what I was doing. But I owed it to myself to see what happens if you give it a try!

Guess what? I didn’t starve and I didn’t die! I ended up looking and feeling better than I had in decades - it quite literally changed my life (and my career ;))!!

I had made excuses and put off doing this for so long - it felt like wasted time. Why had I waited so long? What was I so afraid of? It seems silly now looking back - though I know a lot of us do this to ourselves. Change is hard. But usually the script we have running through our heads make it out to be way harder than it is in reality!

Instead of looking for excuses as to why you can’t do something, start finding ways that you CAN make it work and start working towards that! The sooner you get started, the sooner you get to where you want to be!