Comfort Zones 2 Image

Image can both be a help and a hindrance this I attest to personally, I used to be roughly 20 stones and wearing a 44" waist. At the time I thought I was happy being that big, and wearing a stetson (fashion faux pas number one), in fact I had become comfortable and an embarrassment to my partner this also hindered me in innumerable ways. Some of which were:
Lack of Stamina
Greater risk of type 2 Diabetes

I realized that I had to change not for Wendy (my partner) or anybody else but for myself, this was in itself highly uncomfortable due to the needed change in diet. This was because I, like a lot of people in the west, had become addicted to the food I was eating, or should I say the additives in the food that the food companies put into them to give them greater shelf-life. Of course most of these additives in the UK are known as E-numbers and these numbers are in fact perfectly natural and have been used in a lesser scale for centuries by humanity to avoid food poisoning but there are other additives like flavor enhancers that could be described as addictive and it was to those type of additive that I was addicted to. This change in diet brought about a whole raft of mood swings and  aggressive behavior as I came off processed meats and became a vegetarian.

The main benefit of this diet I found was that the fat just fell off me in a year I lost roughly 15 stone (after a brief yo-yo moment around half way) and I am still losing it I set myself a target of reaching my ideal Body Mass Index of 18 - 25 that means that my ideal weight of around 11 stone give or take a stone or two now I have almost reached that target and for this I have made a new target to keep the weight off.

What I am trying to say here is that again the image you have can be an anchor as much as a pair of wings, and that nothing is impossible. I thought that I would always be a 20 plus stone man on benefits and single, I took a chance and got myself trained in counseling and upped my qualifications ready to become a teacher and because I took that chance I opened my eyes to a whole raft of opportunities as well as getting myself out of the comfort zone of family.