It's all about commitment and balance

According MFP it's about 215+ days that I started my new life. Really new? Well, if not new yes very different.

I lost 75pounds and reached my target weight but now I am just refining my shape. I was not able to run even half a mile and now my standard running session is about, at least, six miles in less than an hour.

No, I am not skinny, I am 1.88mt and 108Kg.

I live in Saudi Arabia, which is not widely known for their sport habits and I went back home to Spain for vacations.

Vacations in Spain! wow... so many time without Spanish ham! Spanish red wine and Spanish gastronomy!!

I went there decided to enjoy the vacations and allowing me to put up to 2Kg in the 20 days I stayed there but guess what? I not even didn't put a single gram that I also lost half a kilo! How did I do it? I'll tell you...

COMMITMENT!!!

I enjoyed going to eat tapas with my friends and family, I enjoyed mom in law cooking, I enjoyed EVERYTHING, ham, wine, and nice cakes with the coffe and I DIDN'T PUT A SINGLE GRAM on my hips. Well... better than that! I lost half a kilo in these 20 days! Wanna know how?

COMMITMENT!!!

Every two days I got a running session. I ran in Barcelona, such a nice city!. I ran there in a mountain trail... overlooking the whole city at your feet! Amazing place!

It was the Barcelona Marathon Weekend and I was really tempted to sign in but the list was closed long before I arrived to Spain. They do every year what they call "Marathon Breakfast" that consists in a mild 4.195mts run the day before the Marathon emulating the last 4.195 mts of the 1992 Olympic games in Barcelona. So you start the running, is not a race, is just a wonderful running together (thousands of people) and you finish in the finish line inside the Olympic Stadium... I enjoyed so much!!

Then in Palma I also ran every two days... urban runs by the promenade surrounded by amazingly expensive yatches!

In Madrid I ran too... beside the Real Madrid stadium...

And, really, it was not nice to wake up early, leave wife and baby boy at the hotel and start running. In Barcelona I ran in the rain, in Palma I run while my family and friends had party at my place and in Madrid I ran in cold weather (I use to run in desertic weather!).

And everything because of...

COMMITMENT!

The most I ate the most I ran... It is not rocket science!

But when everybody compliments your shape, your achievement, your plan and you are happy with what you see in the mirror is not that difficult to get some COMMITMENT.

I know that in this text the word "I" or "me" is repeated so many times but the same I did you can do it. I really encourage you to follow your plan, to follow your instincts and to get your gift, a new healthy life!

A friend of me yesterday told me... now that you are instructor, Jose, tell me... how can I lose 5 kg in the next 2 months. I told him... what did you eat today? (bad food), and what did you have yesterday night? (6000cals, not 600 but 6000cals!!)

So, I am sorry, I cannot help you... you don't wanna lose weight... YOU WANT TO KEEP TELLING YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT which is different and no, I cannot help that kind of people.

So, stop telling you want to do anything and DO IT!

Best Regards / José D.