The Last Straw!!! Clothes shopping was a particularly unpleasant experience for me with one afternoon sticking in my mind more than others. I was in a store in Croydon looking for a pair of trousers but couldn’t find my size on the rail, the sales assistant serving me radioed through to the stockroom to ask ‘’Have we got these in a 42 waist regular?’’ All the customers within earshot looked round to see who wanted trousers in THAT size and gave me a look somewhere between sympathy and disgust…..that was definitely a low point for me! I decided after that day that I wasn’t going to go through that again, and would be able to walk into a store and pick up clothes in regular/smaller sizes off the rack (my shirt sizes at the time were 19 inch neck for casual or XXL for T-shirts!) From that point on, my main driver was to use every single negative I came across along my journey as a spur to help reach my goal. So in essence – Turn every negative into a positive! It got worse before it got better! For instance, when I mentioned to one of my gym buddies that I was going to drop from 19 stone to 13, he laughed so hard it made me doubt I could do it, but I filed that memory away in the back of my mind and used it as a driver to help motivate me towards the goal! I eventually lost 7 stone (I now weigh between 12 stone and 11 ½), and my friend was one of the first people to congratulate me and say he had underestimated my determination. I had a similar experience when I bought the ‘’Insanity’’ workout programme. Again I generated a few laughs, and a few comments like ‘’that’s not for big-boned fellas like you!’’ or ‘’Good luck with that mate, ha, ha, ha!’’ Well again, I completed the programme 3 times, also completed later variations of the programme (Focus T25 & Insanity Max30). I could go on and on with instances of friends and family being unsupportive, but I’m sure you’ve got my point! Never let negative comments/people get you down during your transformation journey. You will get these along the way; the best thing to do is use them as motivation to achieve your goals!
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January 2020
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