Why Trusting the Weight Loss Process Is the Key to Lasting Results (Backed by Science...Kinda)

Have you ever thought about how some of the things that we do in life just don't make sense?

But we are okay with it?

If only we had the same mindset toward everything else in life.

Here's what I'm talking about...

For example, we dig a hole in the ground.

Break up the soil to make it soft.

Mix in manure.

Put a seed inside that hole.

And for several days, sometimes even several weeks, we water it.

We even remove any weeds that grow over the place where we've planted the seed.

All for a seed we don't even know whether it'll grow or whether it's even still there; it could have been eaten by something in the soil :).

But we keep watering.

We keep weeding.

And someway, somehow, without even needing to understand this process, the seed we've been catering blindly to.

Shoots.

It germinates.

Do you understand why this is important?

Do you see how this applies to you?

During that whole period, when watering the seed, weeding the seed bed and even adding manure to the soil.

You didn't have to understand why you were doing it.

You just had to do it.

Even if you didn't believe it.

It is what you call, "Trusting the process."

Because even though you are on a self-development journey.

On a weight loss journey.

On a journey to improve your health, mental health and overall well-being.

You might not always feel that what you're doing will work for you especially when making the decision to start.

But just like when planting and taking care of a seed.

You don't even have to understand how it will work for you or why.

You just have to start doing it.

And even if you don't see the results immediately or in a few days.

You just have to keep going.

Even if it feels like it doesn't make sense.

Because just like the seed, even though for several days or weeks you couldn't see any impact of your efforts to help the seed grow.

Because, although you didn't realise it.

All this was happening inside the soil:

Up until you saw it germinate.

Before you got to see the results of your efforts at watering, cultivating and weeding.

Could you have imagined all that was happening inside the soil?

When you start your journey and are doing all the right things.

It might take time before you see obvious results but look.

Probably your organs are healing and rejuvenating inside. Your body could be fixing inflammation, repairing damaged tissues and cells here and there, and even working on the systems necessary to regulate that blood sugar or blood pressure that you have or that was on the way.

You may not see it.

You might not even want to care that this is happening.

But for sure, it's all an essential part of the process, without which your results won't last or you'll get them, harming your body in the process.

It's like a seed germinating without properly rooting itself in the soil.

So just because your body fat didn't fall off overnight because you skipped a meal, doesn't mean you aren't making any progress.

Allow your body to take root, cleaning its house and putting it in order, before showing it to the world.

Allow your mind to take root to understanding that, "We're doing this."

So keep going, my friend.

Even when it comes to learning things to do with personal improvement; they may not make sense today, but in time, you'll be glad you kept on following the tasks I gave you or that you decided to start following.

You'll be glad you followed every step diligently even if it didn't make sense then, even when you didn't see obvious change.

Because that's the only way a healthy, better and good-looking life will germinate in the future.

I believe you understand me, my friend.

Trust the process.

You don't have to understand how it will work for you or why.

You just have to keep doing it.