As I sat at the doctors office waiting to take my physical, I thought about the changes in lifestyle I have made recently. These changes weren’t easy, but they were necessary. I know a lot of people tell me that they could never do what I do. I’ve discussed that in the past. But what I thought about was the fact that it wasn’t nearly as hard as I had made it out to be. I used to be one of those people who would say I could never get rid of breads, pasta, etc. Now, I find that the sacrifice was actually quite trivial as compared to the better health and weight loss.

It helps that Sherry makes amazing foods for us. It helps that we are in this together and we are accountable to each other. It helps that we are there to support each other when we are psychologically beaten or feeling down. It helps that success breeds success; our experience with Whole30 was so successful that transitioning into Paleo has been easy and actually, quite nice.

We ultimately decide how we want to live. Sherry and I decided we no longer wanted to be fat people who were out of breath, out of shape, didn’t fit into booths at restaurants (me), and generally just didn’t look good. These things were all within our power to change, and we’ve done that and we continue to march forward. I have 40 more lbs to lose to my final goal, but now, it seems like an attainable goal versus a fantasy.

All it takes is for you to commit to making the lifestyle change and make it permanent. Once you do that, things fall into place.