I carried those cards with me wherever I went—in the car, at work, in my purse. They were always there to remind me what to do if I was struggling.” As for finding time for her workouts, Gail decided to juggle her schedule a bit to move exercise to her lunch “hour.”
“It just came to me. I asked my boss if I could come in a little earlier and stay a little later, and take a long lunch for my midday workouts. I’m still coming to NIFS almost every day during the week to exercise. I know how important it is for stress relief, and it’s almost like I have two days within a day now. I get to shower and go back to work in the afternoon more refreshed.”
Gail firmly believes in personal responsibility for changing your habits while finding support and accountability to help you accomplish your goals.
“You have to find that place or that group or that person to support you—something to provide the consistency and accountability. It’s tough to get out of the destructive cycles; I know I couldn’t have done it without my husband.
But you have to make the decision. No one else can do it for you. I know my body so much better now. I know how I feel when I eat too much, and, because I’m much more tuned in to my body, I just don’t think I’ll ever go back to the kind of patterns I had before.”
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