The Attitude Diet

I recently wrote about the accordion body syndrome and the desire to introduce non-negotiable health and exercise into my life.

In my quest I have found inspiration from those who have achieved this already.

One lady who has struck me as a role model is Nicole Lambert.

She has  lost an amazing 30kg and gained a healthy new way of life and attitude to boot.

Nicole planted the non-negotiable concept into my head which I’d like to thank her for!

Cowboy, Monte and I have walked ‘non-negotiably’ morning and evening for just about 3 weeks now due to this new perspective.

I love Nicole’s story because she could be you or I.

It reminds me that any of us can achieve whatever we set our minds to.

I asked Nicole to share how changing her attitude changed her body and life, here is her response:

You know, it never ceases to amaze me that despite the fact that we live in a modern world, with endless self help resources and information we still don’t seem to be able to get our proverbial shit together.

We all have an ‘ideal’ of what our best lives would look like.

We’ve all spent time daydreaming, picturing it, and imagining ourselves in it.

For the most part we know what we want.  We see it.  We visualise it.

We attend seminars, we get motivated (for a minute) we read books (well, sometimes only half a book), we give hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars to other people to help us find what we are looking for.  “If only I could find it…..then I’d be happy” – sound familiar?

It’s like a hunger that never gets satisfied.  It’s a thirst that never gets quenched.  And yet, we feel like it’s just around the corner in the next email, the next workshop, the next book.

What if it wasn’t in any of these things?

What if the only thing you needed was YOU?

Well, you… with a different attitude.

Think about it.

In all your attempts to change your life, in all your attempts to be happy, content, loved, relaxed, fulfilled, what was the common denominator when all of these attempts failed?

YOU.

So, what is it about YOU that has prevented you from achieving what you want?

Nicole before...

For me it was attitude. Quite simply, by changing my attitude, I changed my body and my life.

And it wasn’t just my attitude towards exercise or eating well.

It was my attitude in general that needed an overhaul.

I gave some really serious thought to how I viewed the world around me.

I explored the concept that everything in this world is a matter of perspective.  And that any experience you have is neither positive nor negative.

The experience only becomes a positive or negative one according to the label we choose to place on it.

It took a while to get my head around the concept, but after a while I realised that I was actually on to something.

I no longer looked at exercise as a chore that I had to do in order to ‘be’ something that I thought I should be.  Because lets face it, society gives a very screwed up view of what we are supposed to ‘be’.

I started to exercise because I enjoyed it and because I became excited about what I was going to achieve.

Instead of giving up when it got hard, I persisted and embraced the uncomfortable feeling of stepping way outside of my comfort zone.

Through doing this, I experienced the most amazing exhilaration when I actually began to achieve results.

Six weeks into my first 12 week program and I had lost about 7 of the 30kgs.

I dislocated my shoulder. I was devastated to say the very least.  I cried for 2 days because I thought that my weight loss and fitness journey was over.

Then I remembered what I had started to learn.

After!

And instead of crying over the things I couldn’t do, I started to think of the things I could do.

I continued on my journey and finished the 12 weeks having lost 15 kgs.  I learnt a lot about myself at that point.  I learnt that I had resilience to adversity.

I learnt that quite simply, it really was going to be my attitude that was going to change my life.

So what do you think? Inspired? How has your attitude affected your body / life?