“Change is a door that can only be opened from the inside.”

Often when people set out to change something in their life, such as losing weight, the first challenge they face is their current readiness to change. Are you prepared to go through what you need to do to achieve your goal? Are you willing to pay the price?

It is important that you understand this concept of paying the price. Where you are today and what you have in your life is a result of all the choices and decisions you have made; it is where you have wanted to be, if only unconsciously.

Therefore if you are going to change you need to accept that you are going to have to leave behind some things that you like! This means that you are going to have to put some significant effort into achieving what you want.

There are several reasons why you shouldn’t start a program unless you are truly ready.

The most important of these is that every time you try to do something and don’t achieve success you build resilience to being able to change; in other words you begin to see yourself as somebody who can’t change.

Secondly you need to understand the effect it has on your body, most people who lose weight and put it on again end up heavier than they were before.

Your body is a direct reflection of what you put into it daily, so the nutrition, exercise and lifestyle choices you are making today are causing you to have the body you have currently.