If you want to tackle losing weight but are living in a season of changed and are overwhelmed by everything else, this is a simple place to start.  Just work on one thing

Transcript:

Hi, my name is Tiffany, and welcome to the podcast Working on Amazing.

This podcast is specifically designed for women who feel like they're starting over in the middle of their life.

Most commonly, that looks like a divorce, but it could be a breakup, a loss.

Many things can lead you to feel like, all of a sudden, you're having to start over.

All your plans for the future have changed.

The way you thought your life was going got upended, and now it feels like you're starting over.

Even though you're really not starting over, it definitely feels that way.

If that's you, I want to say you are not alone.

Welcome.

I'm so glad you're here.

Now, if you remember in the beginning, I talked about there are five key areas that I focused on when I was rebuilding my life.

I focused on my spiritual health, my mental health, my physical health, my financial health, and growth and goals.

So today's episode, we're going to talk about physical health.

And we're going to start really basic.

We're not going to go crazy.

We're not going to go too far.

We're just going to start really simple.

Because I think when you make little changes and keep those small changes consistent over time, you see big results.

And I think that in health and finance and all these things, it's okay to start small.

I think that's the way to make sustainable and lasting change.

So physical health is that way.

And I'm going to share with you a little bit about my personal journey and what I did.

So when I went through my divorce, I ate all my feelings.

I had a lot of feelings, and I ate every single one of them.

And the result of that was I gained weight.

Now, the bulk of my life, I would not consider myself skinny or small, but I was definitely average in my weight.

I was never struggled with my weight.

It just wasn't an issue one way or another.

I didn't think about it.

But when I went through my divorce, I definitely started to struggle with my weight.

I definitely put on pounds, and it contributed to the depression and my mental health struggles of just being unhappy, because not only was all these other changes going on in my life, not only was I dealing with figuring out how to be a single mom and all the responsibility that came with doing that alone, and losing a 20-year marriage, I felt very unattractive.

So just all of it just didn't feel good, right?

And I knew I needed to tackle it.

I knew I needed to lose some of this weight that I had put on.

But I needed to get in the right headspace in order to do that.

I don't know if that makes sense to you.

If you're going through a really tough season and it feels like everything's changing and everything requires your energy and you are struggling emotionally and you don't have much energy to give, maybe you understand that you've got to be in a certain headspace in order to tackle a problem like that.

So I did not tackle it immediately.

I got on my feet a little bit as far as moving into a new place with my children, starting to figure out a rhythm with my finances.

But one of the ways I started is what I'm going to talk about today.

And I ended up losing 40 pounds, so yay, good job.

But if you're there, if you've just been kind of down, if you've eaten more than you realized, you just turn around and you're like, whoa, I put on some pounds and I would like to lose those.

But you're still struggling just in your own head, kind of down abou