Take Ownership of Your Body

This may sound philosphical but if there's one thing in life we all can control - it has got to be our own bodies. Think about it. Since birth...we all have the ability to control how our body reacts to certain things, what we want to eat and what we don't want to eat, clothes we want to wear, or the car we want to drive... etc, etc.

Ownership of oneself...it's just like a house. You love your house - you do your best to keep your job so that you can make those silly mortgage payments every month right? And just like our bodies, we need to have that pride of ownership to really get some positive benefit of all the hard work we do in the gym and at the dinner table.

Nobody knows ourselves more than ourselves. Even Mom's don't know every little thing about us either.

I really believe that in fitness - you really want to make it a journey more than anything else: have that common sense of ownership of your body first and foremost. You can control what goes in your body...you control what you do to your body. Nobody can tell you what to eat and what not to eat. You control that. Nobody else has that power to do that but you. Pitfalls are common...I've done it many times...but you always try to aim for the goal as best as you can. Don't ever lose sight of it. Things may get hectic..but try and remain consistent with it.

In due time...you will see a transformation right before you realize it.

We owe our bodies soooooooooo much. It allows us to work, raise a family, earn a living...and enjoy even the smallest things in life we might take for granted. So treasure it, nurture it as best we can and the results will come. It may take time (fat loss) but don't rush it - it will come if we stay consistent with our goals in sight. We should never find excuses because there's always ways around them.

But you have to start somewhere and it always starts with that person you see in the mirror every morning you get up...and if you have doubts about yourself that you can't do it...then that's when you really have to dig in deep inside and find that motivation and believe in yourself that you can. Shoot for the mindset of "I want to lose weight", instead of "Im exercising and dieting, but Im not getting results so screw it." It's not easy...but who said fat loss was easy anyway.

Through my own personal experiences with it, only we can control what we do or what we don't do to our bodies. But it ultimately becomes a personal choice of how much "ownership" do you want have of your body to begin with.

Ultimately, it is our body here. Now it's all up to us to do something about it.

Take ownership!