SweetEpiphany, first of all, congrats for your message, loved it.
You said someting very important there :
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I've been refocusing on myself and doing some deep thinking about what my WHY is for wanting to lose the weight. I'm in my early 30s and while I have my health now, it won't be around forever if I don't change
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That is so true !
I'm going through the same process as you and it's very tough, but we need to ask ourselves 3 important questions when it comes to losing weight :
Why ?
How ? and
When ? In my opinion, those are the 3 most important questions and very often we have the wrong answers.
For example
Why ? I will say it's for Health reasons and that's
the true answer, but actually it's because I want to look different, I want to feel attractive again. The main reason my weight is bothering me is my love life. Now, is this the
Why I should do it ? No, I should do it for Health, that's the most important.
However, that doesn't mean that wanting to feel good in our body to be more attractive is not good. But in my opinion it's not a Why, it's a
How. I
use that as a motivation not a end, that's a very different prospective. And the
How for you could be Medifast as some point and something else at another moment. For me me now it's juicing, just for few weeks, then I change to something else. It's different for everybody, you just need to take time to find
How it will work for you. It seems you did
Finally, the
When, is maybe the most important. Because, even if you know
Why and
How, if you don't have the
When, you will fail. The
When is when is it the good time to start ? In my opinion you need to be a good state of mind or a shock. Either you need to be very positive as you will enter in a very difficult period with the diet, so a positive mindset can only help. Or, you experience something very traumatic in your life, than triggered something in you to make a change. It's very personal, only you knows the
When...
But again congrats, for being on the right track again SweetEpiphany