Comfort Zones

Talk about living outside my comfort zone, this whole healthy approach to nutrition and fitness is totally NOT my comfort zone. My comfort zone has, for a number of years now, involved as little exercise as possible, unhealthy snacks, late nights and late mornings with days fuelled on coffee.

There is a great quote by Albert Einstein, "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". My whole outlook on weight loss before now could be summed up in that little pearl of wisdom. No matter how much I wished, and believe me I did a lot of that, or how many fad diet ideas I tried - none of them worked. That is why this time I have changed what I am doing, I am going to move this weight the good old fashioned way - through healthy eating and exercise.

A long term healthy lifestyle change is outside my old comfort zone. It's not yet my new comfort zone but am determined to persist and make the changes my body, my health, my family and my feeling of self worth NEED me to make.

I am making changes already with another early start for me today. The alarm went off at 5.25am, and I actually got straight up without wishing I could smash my phone and go back to sleep.

My training buddy has managed to secure me a free 5 day trial pass for the gym she uses and has convinced me that I need to go all 5 days to make the most of it. Unfortunately for my sleepy head, her work days are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday so that means to go with her it has to be before her work.

Was a funny feeling to have done a workout and be home getting into the shower at 7am, totally unlike my normal morning routine. To top it off I will be doing it again tomorrow and the next day at the same time. A month ago if someone suggested I get up at that ungodly hour to exercise my response would have been something along the lines of "Are you mental? Why would I want to get up that early, especially to exercise? It's just not going to happen"

I guess it just proves that when you are determined to make something work, no matter what, you do things a little differently.

I will no longer live in my old comfort zone. I am on a quest to find a new, healthier, comfort zone.