OH! Magazine - Australian Version April 2015 | Page 22

FOCUS ON THE WINS

NARDIA
NORMAN

Nardia Norman helps you to acknowledge every step of your journey to
optimum health.
ave you ever looked at someone
who has been on a ‘weight loss’
journey and judged them for NOT
achieving their goals? Or perhaps you’ve
done it to yourself? Maybe you’ve said
something like ‘this is the fittest/strongest
I’ve ever been in my life and I feel great
BUT I’m upset that I haven’t lost weight’
(with the first part being a throwaway
comment, rather than a positive
reinforcement).

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If you have, it’s completely normal. As a
society, we have become hard-wired to
believe that the only good results are the
ones that are reflected in a physical
change, making us more conditioned to
look only at the superficial changes in
appearance. Sometimes this can feel like
no one even cares about how a person’s
confidence or self-belief has improved.
The ‘before and after shot’ has become
the gold standard in mark