I have finally had a shift in thinking with this whole workout thing. I know that I’m good at putting on a facade but really I’ve not been there mentally. Finally I think I’m in the zone, I’m surrounded by people who are there as well and I’m in a good place. I had a quick heart to heart with my boot camp trainer David this morning. It was a rough session but almost cathartic and I stopped to ask him a few questions on my way out the door. Mainly though we talked about attitude.

He said something about eating elephants during our talk and I was like hold up a moment I’m a vegetarian… just joking. I’ve heard the analogy before but now it’s finally making sense to me.

You can only eat an elephant one bite at a time. Granted my elephant is different than yours but we all have them. I want to lose quite a bit of weight, but I’m not going to do it overnight. I’ve been frustrated that I haven’t seen the changes but ya know what, I feel them. And I want to lose 25 pounds.. that’s doable, then I will lose another and so on. But I’m not going to look at the big picture. Instead I’m gonna eat my elephant one bite at a time. Today I started at 6:30am boot camp… and will also go to 5:30 pm boot camp. Tomorrow I will set my clock for 3:30 am and go to the gym… and I will keep going.

Cause, and I know you’re probably tired of hearing about my journey and what my goals are, but I’m no longer “going” to do this. I AM doing this. I AM an athlete and I AM taking one bite of that elephant at a time.