What was your turning point for wanting to lose weight and live a healthy lifestyle?
For me, it was rapid heartbeat. Sure I wanted to/knew I needed to lose weight but I would always have an excuse of why I couldn't start "today" and I'd put it off and eat something else fattening. But the rapid heartbeats scared me. Every once in a while I'd even feel a slight fluttering in my chest. Scared the shit out of me. I remember lying in bed and feeling my heart beating so fast like I'd been jogging or something. But I was lying down. What was happening was I was stuffing myself to the point of being overly full and my body was working extra hard to process the food, not to mention the stress on it from carrying all that extra weight around.
I remember around that time watching an episode of Dr. Oz talking about the recommended resting heart rate and to measure it first thing in the morning before getting out of bed. His recommendation was 80 beats per minute or less. I don't remember what mine was exactly but it was over 100. I didn't want to have a heart attack so I got scared into action. The weird heartbeats stopped as soon as I started exercising and lost a few pounds; it didn't take long at all. It was almost like a dog that parks continuously because it wants to go for a walk and as soon as the owner walks it, the barking stops.
I measured my heart rate the past two days before getting out of bed and it was 58 beats per minute each day. Hell yeah! Now that's what I'm talking about. :D
We have the control within us, we just need to put it to work. Keep the power with you. Don't let the fat win.
Make it a great day.
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The point of power is always in the present moment.
