An up and coming former high school drop-out and now proud
holder of a PhD had once said,” If you have tried or haven’t tried different
things in your life and you’re still in the same place, then the problem is not
your life; the problem is you. You are the only common factor in every
situation you find in your life.” His point comes with great merit, not only
with turning ones’ life around, but with anything you could set out to do with
your life.
In my
opinion, and in a few others that I have been consulting with, the biggest
problem with us as an unhealthy society is the lack of education. We come into
contact with so many “lose weight fast” gimmicks, new home equipment to get you
ready for the beach, or a supplement company that eventually turns into a part
time job doing multi-level marketing. I’m not saying that none of these can
help you get to where you want to be, I’m saying that they’re nothing new to
the world of people who had the knowledge of what was needed to be done before
any of this came out. Yes, people have lost weight very effectively and quickly
before: P90X, The Adkins Diet, The Gazelle and before Richard Simmons. There
were/are supplement companies that do as much if not more that these
multi-level supplement companies that throw a masterpiece in the form of a
sales pitch to you just to get you to buy into them.
Be
honest, you know as well as I do that your home fitness equipment is nothing
more than a glorified clothes rack in your home. I am willing to bet that 1/10
people who have treadmills at home actually use them consistently. It doesn’t
stop there either. Millions of people have gym memberships that don’t even use
them, have supplements they have bought but aren’t consistent with so they
throw them out, or have invested into some lose weight quick gimmick or surgery
and ended up further back than where they were from the start. How does this
happen to people so often? You would think that they would learn from the
beginning right?
The
reason we, as a society, are so over weight, unhealthy and unhappy is due to
the lack of education and knowledge that is needed. “Ignorance is blissful, yet
it is disastrous” couldn’t be any more accurate. Some of us don’t take the time
to think, and act purely on an emotional state of mind and end up more
disappointed than anything. Those who bought into gastric bypass or lap-band
surgery without understanding and knowing that if their lifestyle doesn’t
change, the surgery won’t work and will do more harm than good. Then again, if
they possessed that knowledge, they probably would have solved the problem
before it got to that point, don’t you think?
There
is a saying that goes, “Change occurs when the pain of remaining the same is
greater than the pain of changing.” To me, this is ignorance personified in us.
We know that something isn’t conducive to our good health, yet we continue
until it gets too bad that we have no choice but to change. We eat ourselves to
death until we become so huge we cannot walk, and then we are forced into a
weight loss surgery. We ignore our personal health and fitness until it gets to
the point where we need to move quickly and we are a victim of our own
laziness. Why would we wait for the “pain” to get so profound that we cannot
bear it? Blame it on fear or blame it on laziness, the real issue is your lack
of accountability. You knew the aftermath of eating horribly or not taking care
of yourself was. As I said, you are the problem with everything concerning you.
The best thing about you being the primary factor in your life is that you can
turn it around. Knowledge of yourself, knowledge of how to change and knowledge
of what to change will make all the difference in your world. It can all start
right now, if you tell yourself that you’re ready to stop hurting and you’re
also ready to start working.
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