Successful Lifestyle Change

Hi!

I am glad to let you know that I've improved my lifestyle successfully! It's a work in progress, but I made some good progress now. I hope may inspire you, because if I can do it you can do it too. Nothing special about me!

Compared to a year ago...
...I don't smoke anymore.
...I eat far less fast food
...I became a member of two sport clubs: athletics and swimming
...so I regularly exercise (4x/week compared to perhaps 1-2x/month)
...I eat more regularly
...I eat more varied and more healthy foods (vegetables, fruits, nuts, fish, etc)
...because of this, I already lost 16 kilograms
...after a 5 week break, I started losing again
...I manage stress better by being conscious of it instead of ignoring it
...I sleep better and more regular

I may tell you that I have a long way to go (in terms of weight loss, muscle gain, etc), but I don't think one should see this healthy living thing as a noun, as something you can just mark off your list; I think it's a verb, something you do every day, every week. I still have goals to lose more weight, to become stronger, get a larger endurance and so forth, but I don't think it's useful to desire these things too much, I only get impatient. And when I get impatient, I don't create a sustainable healthy lifestyle, so everything I do may be in vain. Weight can come back, muscles shrink, addictions may come back, etc.

So, I'd like to look to every week and see how it was, and I am glad to tell you here that I like the change that I see! Increased endurance and strength and reduced weight and a lot more good things will follow from a good lifestyle.

Cheers,
Jasper