Losing a large amount of weight has been a defining moment for me. It was something that I never thought I could ever do. I literally spent decades looking in the mirror wishing I saw something different looking back at me. At that time, I wasn’t thinking about being thin or super fit, I just wanted to be comfortable in my own skin. It took a few years and so many lessons but I eventually achieved a natural weight loss of over 100 pounds. And I took myself from a size 20 to a size 4.
size 22 to a size 4. natural weight loss
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It’s taken me a long time to appreciate the fact that not a lot of people go out and lose such a large amount of weight. And I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what made my experience of natural weight loss different from the experience of others.
It took a lot of reflection and many conversations with so many different people before I started to see where that difference was. And for the most part, it boiled down to one key factor.
Mindset.
Mindset Before My Weight Loss
Before my weight loss, my life was quite different. I remember often feeling like life was just happening around me. I was a new mom to twins, my husband worked long hours and had an insanely long commute, I had family members with addiction issues, we had just moved and my friends were in a different city, and I had a toxic relationship with a family member.
At the time, I just couldn’t understand why all this was happening to me. And that’s how I truly thought about it. That everything was simply “happening to me”. I took zero responsibility for how miserable I felt. And because I didn’t take any real responsibility for my emotions and my life, I chose to self-soothe with food instead of truly addressing my many issues. In my mind, nothing was really my fault because everything was happening to me.
When I looked at Instagram I chose to believe that there was something magical about these people I followed. That they must have been born with some special will-power, or great genetics, or they that loved working out. These are things I now know to be untrue about most people.
Was there something special about them? No. However, there was something different. And that was their mindset.
Changing Your Mindset
Changing your mindset about your life takes a lot of work. And changing your mindset about your body and weight loss takes a lot of consistent work. But it’s something that absolutely anyone can do.
At this point, I’m sure you’re reading this and going, really Shannon? You’re going to credit losing 100 pounds to mindset?
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And yes, I am.
I do talk about the individual habits I adopted that helped me have a large natural weight loss in this post. But without a change in mindset, those habits would never have come together.
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