07/08/2025
My journey to optimal health began in October 2024. I say optimal health journey not to be confused with weight loss journey. My focus was not to be on a journey to lose weight, but to start my journey to be in MY best health. Weight was never my struggle, accepting myself in all forms had always been my struggle.
This is where my journey began...
I first had to enter the mindset and become entirely obsessed with rewiring it. I needed to find what patterns, triggers, and beliefs I had and THEN I needed to reprogram my thoughts around these beliefs. I was on a mission to find out WHY I thought, acted, and moved in the way that I did.
I quickly found out my “All or Nothing” attitude had to go. This was holding me back.
I began to allow myself space and grace in taking small steps in the right direction instead of jumping both feet first in cold water just to run out of the pool so to speak.
I knew overcoming the emotional support bo***ge to food would be the biggest challenge, so I focused on getting razor sharp with my fitness. By doing this, I allowed myself the support I needed to detach from the emotional bond I formed with food while building the solid foundation for working out. There were days when my eating was really good and a lot of days where Jesus needed to take the wheel, but I focused not on the bad but on the good and seen my progress in my workouts. The more reps, the heavier loads, the longer I could go without tapping out; these were the achievements and growth I focused on.
Eventually I started to look forward to daily walks, achieving my step goal and working out.
Now, I turned my focus to food, this was the hardest part of my journey.
I went deep into myself to find the reason WHY I had this attachment, and WHY it benefited me to break free from it. I did months of deep inner work and still continue to do the work, because of this, I have been able to release from the bo***ge and create new thoughts that support me and my future self.
I am still and will always be on my journey to optimal health.
