I have been going to the gym for about 3 years now and I have made some really big changes in my body (pictures below) but for the last 6 months or more I have been gaining weight and feeling weaker. I know my eating has not been super good but I don’t think I have strayed enough to cause these unwanted changes.

I tried blaming the weight gain on the new music I loaded into my Ipod or the fact that my hair got really long but I couldn’t convince myself of that, although I do believe that the ability to lose weight is about more than diet and exercise. I believe it is also about state of mind and that is the one thing that has changed drastically in me lately.

Call it the winter blues, or the fact that I lost one of my jobs, or the massive amounts of stress I am under but it all boils down to my state of mind. Repeated trips to the gym watching the scale go up has weakened my resolve and made me feel defeated. Other factors I won’t mention here have also played a part on attacking my psyche.

So what can I do about it? Well I don’t think going back to where I was when I started my health movement is the answer but I can revisit some of the tools I used to make progress. “What are they”?, you ask. One of the tools I used in the past was meditation.

This is not the sitting comfortably, slow breathing kind but rather the listening to my guided meditation on my Ipod while breathing heavily on the treadmill or stationary bike. I follow the program and create in my mind a picture of where and how I want to be. Then I set it in stone and give thanks for it. I have used this method with much success for many areas of my life. It doesn’t work overnight but it does work and helps to get my mind in the correct place.

When your mind is set where you need it to be all the other things you are doing to reach that goal will start working. So I am grateful that I am able to lose 12 pounds and I feel great and much stronger that I have achieved this goal now all I have to do is get to the gym so my body can catch up.

I’m just blowing bubbles.