When It Hurts More To Stay The Same Than To Change.

At 18 years old, I jumped solo on a plane to India, deciding that was a really good idea. (Which, turns out, it was.)

I lived in an orphanage in a tiny (well, by Indian population standards) village, eating spicy paste-sauce after spicy paste-sauce, and wheat tortilla (called Chapati’s) after wheat tortilla.

Veggies? Hah.

Fruits? Hahaha.

And still, I felt SO alive some of those days. Free, on auto rickshaws to stick my head out the gap in the material (glassless windows), or to sit on the edge, mostly outside of the car, holding on tight.

You see, part of the health you want, the energy and vibrancy you want, comes from doing the things that light you up. Even if you have no reason to do them, and even if all of your friends, and everyone you know, is doing something else.

When I got home, I got back into the routine of feeling tired, not being able to lose weight and just generally not feeling it.

I turned 19 that year, soon after I got back. Then I turned 20.

And I still felt like crap.

When I turned 21, I turned my health around. I basically said, ‘Fuck it. I’m not putting up with this anymore.’

It finally hurt more to stay the same, than to change. And I’ll always be grateful for that.

And if you’re reading this and beating yourself up, if you’re reading this and thinking, ‘yeah but she’s younger’ or if you’re reading this and thinking, ‘why the FUCK CAN’T I GET MYSELF TO THAT POINT!?!?!?!’

Then what I want you to know, what I want you to take in, what I want you to read and really FEEL, is this:

You can get to that point AT ANY TIME.

It’s more of a choice, than an actual life moment. And that choice can happen in ANY life moment.

I felt worse as a teen, and I mean WAY worse, than I do now. And yes I’m still young. But as a human being, my body’s ability to recover, regenerate and be fuelled for change at any point is unending.

And yours works the same way, if you fuel it right, I promise.

Different input = different output. It’s that simple. Food is the only thing you put into your body to get anything out of it, period.

Health can happen at any age.

And more importantly, you can decide to choose health and follow through on it and feel YOUNGER than you ever have. I’m proof. I felt like crap when I was younger, and I feel pretty damn epic on a day to day now.

There are marathon runners who are in their 70’s, 80’s, I think one woman finished the marathon this year in Toronto at just over 90 years old.

There are people who START getting healthy at any one of those ages!

Age isn’t the limit.

Your mind? What you tell yourself? What you believe? That’s the limit.

(Unless of course you go after changing those limits into reasons why you CAN.)

What I want you to know most, is that age isn’t the deal. It’s not the make or break. You can feel awesome at 20, you can feel horrible at 20. You can feel awesome at 50. You can feel terrible at 50. And so on.

Maybe this post will help you move forward with one less reason why your health will be terribly hard (truly, it doesn’t have to be). That’s my hope.

You CAN go get the health you deserve. It’s time, and you’re at the PERFECT age, the perfect height, point, weight, mindset, energy level, desperation, endurance level, frustration point, BMI, ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING, to start now.

Xo. You’ve got this.
Nathalie

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