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Don't turn your distractions into your new routine!
New year 2025 is fast approaching, many are excited for 2024 Christmas eve. some for holidays, some for celebration and fun that come with it, some are devotional and it is every child’s dream day of gifts and fun. Likewise, it was for me too. Last year in month of december 2023, i asked my self what gift would I give myself for this Christmas. My family members asked what do you want? it’s a tradition to buy new clothes for one another and the tradition happened and I am excited. Seeing myself in the mirror, overweight and sick. They didn’t fit. Christmas passed, new year quickly approached.
suddenly everyone started talking about resolutions, some about fitness, people I know had financial resolutions, profits they want to gain that particular year.. here I am still stuck with Christmas. what do i need as a gift? the one I had didn’t fit.
then i decided, I have to gift myself health.
looking out for mentors and suggestions for weight loss, everywhere i see.. it’s scary. Everyone is ready to tell me what to do physically, everyone is ready to tell me what to eat..
No one actually told me how to observe my body, how different everyone is from one another, what is science behind weight loss, how relevant is gym in process of weight loss, what mindset you need to have and realise purpose to eat what you have to eat in form of diet.
But one thing everyone said in common, don’t rush it, don’t over do.. take it slow. I took it to heart and started looking out for inspiration. Many things in this world look forward to something for inspiration to take step and achieve something. why not for weight loss? inspiration? who will it be you might ask? No one. I looked out for inspiration for the process of doing something. How are everyone doing what they are doing and achieving? Why is it that they can do it and more than half of the world can’t achieve it? then I realised it is all about do’s and don’ts.. people following it blindly. But the process of realising the importance of DO’s will only happen when a person executes Don’ts to fail, realise to create their own style of Do’s for achieving it.
Though it is all about Do’s and Don’ts but one has to Execute Don’ts to fail and realise the importance of Do’s and create their own flavour of Do’s.
coming to weight loss, I am executing Don’ts in my life. I am making mistakes.
- I am aware of it but the second step here is i’m not listing out my don’ts,
- I am not remembering my don’ts,
- I am not keeping a tab on consequences of don’ts. when I am sick,
- I visit the doctor and pop some pills to get back on my feet. I took don’ts for granted.
I always wonder this is like movie inception. Do’s and Don’ts inside Do’s and Don’ts. I don’t want to over complicate things but let me keep this simple.
To keep track of Don’ts, I should start journaling. Write down my weight everyday, junk I eat, how much value they give to my body, taste to my tongue and over all well being. keeping track of sleep and wake times. I changed nothing. just living like before but just writing it down. what I am doing. Did it for three days to five days to ten days.. observed changes happening in my body. occasional gastritis. muscle spasms due to low water intake. heavy breathing while climbing stairs. I am writing those down. These things are materialising before my eyes in writing, before journaling I used to feel it and leave it in a flow of a day. But now I see them, it made sense and I began to realise my Don’ts. Mistakes I am doing, mistakes that I need to fix!
hey! I said this is an inception right? Do’s and Don’ts inside Do’s and Don’ts inside Do’s and Don’ts. This is the third phase.
I am a fool sometimes, I find my comfort zone.. when someone or even myself want to drag myself outside the comfort zone. I began to make excuses. eating junk food is unhealthy. But Dopamine kick makes me think atleast I am happy. I suddenly remember the lesson I learnt in my 10th grade, How to live to be 200 and will begin to suggest myself that eating junk is not a big deal. but I fail to realise that it slowly adds up. until I started journaling or keeping track I didn’t realise how much junk I was eating. I still do it till now. it’s kind of how I brought up. my mom is like “it is okay, nothing will happen for this one time”. I know my mom just wants me to be well fed but that one time is everyday for my whole life. It did add up a lot.
to put it into simple words, this is all a battle of mind. In this battle I have to win in mind, and begin to work in physicality and manifest what I want to achieve. Now coming to inception part.
- firstly : I have to work on coming out of my bad comfort zones that added up leading to this sick life.
- Secondly : I have to keep tabs on Don’ts that I am doing in my life and realise how they are affecting my life and consequences.
- thirdly : know the importance of Do’s and create my own ‘style’ of Do’s in my life style evading mistakes learnt from Don’ts
this took me around two to three months to set my mind straight! Absolutely No One would say these if one is looking out for achieving weight loss on setting resolutions regarding!
hope you learnt something out of this! this is not over yet! will come back with more.. bookmark this website.. I haven’t set up a newsletter yet. I will do it soon! as always be mindful, enhance your living, stay safe and have a great day ahead!
From ~yashwanth patta ~
