HealthEvolution

Time is an interesting component, of weight loss and will probably be the subject of a few blogs in the future.  Most people believe that time is the enemy of weight loss because it happens slowly and because it takes time to show results.  The trick, though, is that time really is on your side.  Just like anything, the more time you choose to spend focusing on something and creating something, the faster the results will turn around for you.  When you choose to spend your time working out, the results of that effort will be shown to you over time.  Also, it’s important to realize that time creates a barrier for us to adjust to change.  If those kinds of consequences and results happened immediately, we’d be overwhelmed by trying to deal with so much change.  Time allows us to adjust to change and make sense of it, because even if it’s change toward something you want (like a thinner body), it does take some adjustment and it can be very uncomfortable.  Time is your friend because it is reliable.  It continues to pass and pass no matter what, you can’t control it and you can’t manipulate it.  But you CAN manipulate how you perceive it.  See, the time will pass fast enough.  Soon a week will go by, soon a month, soon 6 months.  Each individual day goes by so quickly and it seems like when we look back to 6 months or even a year ago, that it seems like time has really gone by in a flash.  Here’s the good news:  if you follow your plan every day and do something small to contribute to your own success, time will pass and results will show.  Period.  Don’t sit around anticipating results, looking for them and feeling stressed out about why you can’t see anything different.  Instead, let go of the need for control and just trust that if you do what you’re supposed to today, the results of your effort will show tomorrow.  And they will. 

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