Don’t get Lazy! Get Up!

So this is truly a message to myself! Sometimes when seeing progress in areas, I try and take a break instead of pushing harder and just like many of the past cycles a break becomes a day then a few and next thing I know, I have been off track over a week!

Truly it’s simple to do this! I got distracted from posting videos because I had unexpected circumstances come up and didn’t plan properly to adapt to my routine again.

Now I am sluggish and feeling like I did prior to all my progress! But….IM REFUSING TO GET LAZY! Yesterday, I came home and meal prepped for the week. I made my salads in a jar, yogurt with fruits, and spaghetti squash and shrimp! It was honestly theraputic for me, I had Grey’s Anatomy playing on my IPad and the stove going. My husband was in his gameroom. It was some much needed time! As I meal prepped I had a moment where I was second guessing it all, I was debating if I could actually keep it up. It’s been about a full month of this and even with good lab results…..the scale is just stuck!

I was going down the rabbit hole of discouraging thoughts because I had tried on some clothes at the store and not much was fitting, although I have lost some inches, I can’t afford a new wardrobe and quite frankly don’t want to invest in one right now since I’m still losing weight…..I felt like I was being lazy because I wasn’t seeing those particular results!

Truth is….Lazy wasn’t the right word….I think I had gotten comfortable and now it’s time to take it to the next level. My doctor told me to start including more vigorous exercises. Which at first I was welcoming of but I froze when I realized this meant I have to get uncomfortable again! I know it’s for my good and all….but dang lol! I been on Ozempic since last May. My weight has fluctuated back and forth but my lab results and internal things have improved drastically!

There are no shortcuts when it comes to growth in the Spirit! (I know that was an unexpected shift in conversation but hear me out…) At first I thought I only needed a little discipline, a little patience, a little self control and that the Ozempic would do the rest! Well that mindset shifted immediately when I had been on it a few weeks. God did tell me that I was about to undergo a transformation from the inside out….i didn’t realize what that included. I was diagnosed as a Type 2 Diabetic, sluggish, eating uncontrollably and was in all honesty giving up. BUT he made me get off my butt and work! A lot of my colleagues have seen great weight loss results with Ozempic and they aren’t putting in nearly half the work I am on it. In prayer, God told me my job was never to depend on this as an escape of the hard work because my work had to be different. I had to go about it the right way, the long way round….😒😒😒! Like who wants to hear that! I have gained a lot more internally than I even gave credit for while being on this weight-loss journey!

Ozempic is regulating my sugar…not giving me a BBL! God is showing me through this process that in order to build this temple, I have to literally build it, brick by brick with HIM! He’s teaching me self control, discipline in my eating, changing my cravings, and teaching me patience with myself. He didn’t tell me that it would be easy, but it would be worth it. I look at my husband who has been my support system along with my fab 5 and moms! They keep me motivated to a certain degree, but it’s God who’s teaching me that the biggest motivation is within me. I’m not getting lazy at least not anymore!

Launching the health division of my enterprise is important because I want to document this journey, these moments of talking about not being lazy, giving myself a reason to stay the course! I mean I got babies to bring into this world with my hubby lol.

If your still reading this…take a page out of my book, make the decision to stop looking for shortcuts or feeling sorry if you don’t have them and work with Jesus to give you a plan for your body! Get your check ups! Find what works for your body! Get a great support group! (You will have this one in about a month!) seriously! I don’t care if it is April 2024…in your journey to good health any day is a good day to start! For me it was in May of last year not January 1st!

Don’t be lazy, don’t get comfortable! Get up and get out there and do what it takes to make sure your body is in the best shape it can be in!