For most of my adult life I’ve tried to lose weight. I’d tried most everything out there to no avail. It would work temporarily—lose a few pounds and then put it back on with more.
So why has this time been different? Though I’m sure there are more, I’ve identified a dozen important factors I believe have contributed to my current success:
1. Desperation—if this didn’t work, I knew of no other place to go or anything else to do. My "last chance" work out!
2. Support system—family, fellow boot campers, staff, and friends. There were people who actually thought I could do this on the Renton Results Boot Camp staff
My daughter Rebekah knew I could. In fact she and her husband put their money on my success by helping pay for the first transformation contest at the beginning of my journey 10 months ago. These are all positive people who encouraged me in my goals.
3. Eating plan with accountability with a green faces quick start plan that showed me it was possible to eat well and lose weight.
4. Exercise like I’d NEVER done before!
5. Mind set—I was going to do all I could to make it work. Approached from a position of
“can do”—“will do”— Instead of
I hope it will work L
to I KNOW it will work! J
6. 110% compliance and faithfulness to be at boot camp and follow the eating plan. I have not missed a day of boot camp when I’ve been in town. – out of a total of 156 M/W/F boot camp session in a year I’ve missed less than 10 and that was because I was out of town for 2 ½ weeks. Even then I took boot camp with me doing a work out 16 of the 18 days I was gone!
7. Overcoming obstacles—I turned obstacles into opportunities to be creative, to ask for help, to learn how to deal with situations that will always come up trying to derail or side track my progress. You know there’s always going to be SOMETHANG!
8. Quick start of green faces plan showed me it was possible to eat well and lose weight.
9. I learned to “trust” the program. To eat all the meals and follow the protocol. To do as much of an exercise as I could, and know I’d do it better and have more results each time. And ask questions!!! That’s what the trainers are there for!! I had to trust that I would see the results they said were possible even when I couldn’t wrap my brain around the idea of wearing jeans half the size I was then wearing!
10. My body actually craves exercise now! This is a first. I see that extra trip down the stairs to retrieve something as an opportunity for more exercise! I'll take two stairs at a time or even three coming back up! I’m more likely to be the one to jump up and get it—its not the chore it used to be.
11. Focus and structure for success—5:45 AM M/W/F are set in cement! I don’t have to wonder the night before what I will be doing in the morning! Gives some focus and structure to my week. Gets me up, out of bed, and energized for the day!
12. Celebrating the small steps along the way---one more push up that day! Getting new clothes that fit---Again, thanks to my daughter Rebekah—for new clothes along the way!
In what now feels like a rapid accomplishment, but in fact has taken months, I realize that my body has been transformed to a level of health and fitness that I’ve never experienced. At the beginning it seemed to be taking forever, but now in retrospect, it was really such a short time in which those 60 pounds have come off! And actually it is a very short time considering the previous unsuccessful years of fruitless attempts!
I’m reminded of the Bible verse that tells me “No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.”
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