Down 7kg, up 1000% in self-belief and the tools to keep getting better!I’ve been in this program for almost 3 months now. As a professional sceptic and lifelong learner (career in science) let me reassure you it’s every bit as good as it sounds - no gimmicks, no lies; this is the support and knowledge and tools and sheer damn enthusiasm I needed (we all need!) to turn out of the middle-age-weight-gain-all-downhill-from-here road I was on, and start ageing backwards. Literally. So I was 100kg (not my heaviest ever, but close). Hiding in baggy stretchy black clothes. Hanging on the banister to get up the stairs, clawing my way up from the floor, ‘let’s only make a single visit to the bottom cupboard’ full-scale given-up acceptance. Giving up more than that, because I had stopped climbing, cycling, walking the steep routes, so many things I loved. Always too busy, too defeated, too tired to think there was anything I could do about it. Fast forward a little (and a lot of scepticism, and a leap of faith, and quite a bit of “workout at 7am? ME??”) to this morning, when I heard the approaching recycling lorry breaking bottles two cottages away and remembered I hadn’t put the cardboard out… ran for the kitchen, squatted on the floor to grab the two recycling boxes and fill them up. Stop from a squat with a box in each hand, ran for the door and down the 100yd dash to the end of the lane just before the lorry got to me. Perfect. And then I realised, I’d come up from the floor with no hands (and hardly any popcorn knees!). I’d run 100yd sprint with a crate in each hand, and I wasn’t out of breath. To a Fit Person, that’s not a lot. Barely noticeable. Normal. To me, in June? Impossible. And Sustainable Change is full of us. Women like me, taking their lives and their bodies back under their control. Leaning into Alex and the team (and it’s a big team - there’s an expert for everything I might need!) when things go wrong or aren’t working (it happens. It happen again. I’m here for that and so are they).It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? I’ve realised that I will fight to my last breath for the team I lead at work. I’ll stand up for biodiversity, for human rights, for my dog, for my partner (oops hope he doesn’t read this, coming after the dog!) but I wasn’t standing up for me. For my needs. For my adventures. For my joy. SC is helping me understand that I’m worth the effort. That if I take care of myself, I can give more back to my extended family, put more into my work, more into my team, into my art. I can have more life in my days - and make the last third of my life the best yet (words that resonated with me from a chat with Alex just this morning). Where will I go from here? I plan on being the crazy auntie with unpredictable hair colour, that’s greeted not with “isn’t she sweet?” but with “what the h*** is the up to NOW?!!!”. I will be a benefit, not a burden. And SC is giving me the support and the tools and the knowledge to get there.
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