“Tanja you’re an 8 tops”
"Tanja, you might be an 8...that's just the way I see it." said someone I was in a committed relationship with a few years back.
The "Body" part came second for me, after, the "Mind" part of my development. I had 2 back to back relationships after my divorce where I was committed....and them...not so much.
In the second, I was left for a woman he interviewed to work at his company. She was tiny, and worked out twice a day. We broke up a few days before Christmas the first time, and it was my New Years resolution to fix my appearance, so I started the Keto meal plan. I started losing quite a bit of weight, and then I plateaued, so I added running to my program.
First, I started out running around a lake in the neighborhood I lived in at the time. After I got decent at that, I mapped out 5 miles running from my house to the local High School, and back home. I would walk and run that 5 miles until it was completed each day.
By March, old boy came back after I had lost some weight, and it didn't work out with "Little Miss Perfect" Like a ding dong, I took him back. Only to result in me finding out from his own sister, pretty much exactly a year later....that I never knew a day of faithfulness from him. She broke sister code, and went for girl code that day, and I'll never be able to thank her enough for that!
Obviously, he moved out, and it all happened so fast there was this huge, tremendous, void in my life, and I was having panic attacks. Simultaneously, while people were losing their residential real estate businesses due to COVID, and the lockdown...mine took off! I had a business that needed me more, I wanted to grieve badly and I couldn't, and I had no great answers for my kids as to where the man that had been living with us for the past 7 months had gone, while they were on Spring Break with their dad. My anxiety was off the charts, and the only way for me to deal with it was to work out, and run, because medications don't really work well for me. Did I mention we also all became homeschool moms right at that moment too? As Forest Gump says, "I just started Run-ning"
On a rainy, Easter morning....I ran that whole dang 5 miles for the first time ever! A friend of mine who had been watching my progress for a while, invited me to my first race ever. He lied to me about the distance until we signed up. I totally got it done, minus all 10 of my toenails, because I actually needed a half shoe size bigger.
If I hadn't cleaned up the mental part of myself first, I wouldn't have gotten through what I was going through at the time. I also wouldn't have had the mental and emotional framework to have the discipline to keep doing what I needed to do each day to achieve my physical goals. Nothing remotely athletic is accomplished without first a mindset.
Your physical goals can be accomplished by just doing a little bit every single day, no matter what. You just get up to create the habit you want in your life. Sometimes, that's all that's making me do it each day. It's a commitment to myself.
What kind of body of health are you looking to achieve? What kind of physical interests do you have? Take a leap of faith, and take action towards it today!
