Everyone who reads this blog knows that I along with many of my fellow butterflies are in a weight loss battle to keep ourselves healthy. Due to our unique genetic make-up, this task can be very difficult. In order for us butterflies to lose weight, we have to control many factors. The key factor I would like to talk about today is being consistent with absolutely everything having to do with your body.
As a butterfly, you have to be consistent with a lot of things that have to deal with your body if you truly want to stay fit and healthy. The first, and most important thing being what you eat. Due to most of us having thyroid issues, we can't get away with eating healthy only some of the time. You have to eat really healthy just about one-hundred percent of the time. For me, this part of my weight loss journey is the most difficult. It is the most difficult for me because I allowed myself to eat extremely unhealthy for soo long. When you do what I did and let yourself eat way too much fried foods and sweets, your body starts to react as if it absolutely needs those things and makes you crave them. The cravings are the worst! However, if you can be strong enough to push through the craving phase and avoid all the terrible food, your body will both thank and reward you. I will admit, I am not completely away from the fried foods and sweets yet, but I have severely cut back. There is one important bad food for me I have completely cut out though, and that is soda. As of the moment I am typing this, I have gone almost 5 months without a single sip of soda or energy drink! I am very proud of myself for this accomplishment, but am also very aware that if I truly want the weight loss results I'm looking for I need to cut out the rest of the bad food completely.
Yet another important thing us butterflies have to be consistent with is remembering our meds. You may not know it, but if you don't take those thyroid meds, those HRT meds, along with all your vitamins consistently, you will throw off your bodies vital hormones and not lose any weight. One thing some butterflies are not aware of is that if you are trying to lose weight and your hormones are off balance, absolutely no weight will be lost. Your bodies hormones are extremely vital to the weight loss process.
The third key to absolute weight loss success is extremely tricky to do, even for me. You have to be consistent with doing some kind of workout every single day. Some of you may be reading this and say to yourself " that's the easy part Holly, what are you talking about"? You may think it's easy when you first start out. Usually in the beginning people are all stoked and gung-ho about their goals, its as you go along and possibly start to lose interest that makes it difficult. The other thing that makes it difficult is making a workout schedule to co-exist with your work schedule. For example, I myself have recently had a difficult time with this because some days I work a full eight hour shift on my feet and get home and all I want is dinner and rest. This fact hit me hard because I've been trying to lose weight for quite some time now and have mostly been getting no-where. I realized I needed consistancy.
It took me getting well into my weight loss journey to realize that doing these things is what I needed to get where I want to be. Being consistent with these three things should help all of you and myself get exactly where we want to be health wise. I will keep you all informed as I move forward with these new realizations and putting them into action. I hope that this realization helps you all too. I would love to hear any of your weight loss stories as well! May we all forever soar!
