Do you find yourself constantly saying “tomorrow“? How many times have you told yourself that your diet will start tomorrow? Or eating better starts tomorrow? Didn’t you say yesterday that today was the day you were going to throw out all of the junk food in your house? If you always wait for tomorrow to make your lifestyle changes, tomorrow will never come.
2 years ago, a client of mine who I met in early January was severely depressed & had a lot of issues with her body image. I helped her as much as I could & reminded her everyday that she had started her journey with me & we will not stop until she reached the happiness & life she deserved. She was overweight, ate poorly and all she wanted was to live a long, healthy life with her fiance, soon to be husband. Every session I met with her, tomorrow was when she was going to start writing in the food journal I asked her to start. Tomorrow was when she was going to come back & do cardio. It was quite a struggle, but I never gave up on her & gave her my 100% guarantee that if she followed my lead, she would be healthy & happy even if she didn’t think it was possible. On the 2nd day of my bachelorette party, as I was away on a long weekend with my girlfriends in Miami, I received one of the worst phone calls of my life. My client, my friend had died in a car accident. I couldn’t believe my ears & all I wanted to do was go back in time & help her even more. I saw struggle through her eyes & as I saw her transform into a new women, her life ended. My heart was & is still broken & I always wonder & think to myself if she had passed away with a better view of herself than she did when I first met her.
The point of the story is, tomorrow is not guaranteed. Never let your dreams start 24 hours from now. If you are unhappy with yourself, start right now. Change your surroundings and give yourself the health & time you deserve to be able to change your life. Take your vitamins, workout every day even if its just for a half an hour, drink water all day long, challenge yourself, give up the late night junk foods, eat vegetables & fruits everyday….all minor changes that will result in major benefits!
“The future starts today, not tomorrow” PJPII