Become Thika SuperHighway

 BECOME THIKA SUPERHIGHWAY

That is of course, if your goal is lifestyle change. For those not familiar with the Thika SuperHighway it is the multi-laned road that starts from the small beautiful town of Thika all the way to our Kenyan capital Nairobi.
Can you remember the way Thika Road looked like a few years ago. Did you think, then, that the same Thika road would be the SuperHighway we know it to be today? Neither did I. How many people have you told you're starting your weight loss journey and they just laughed at you? Those you've told that you'd like to get back to your pre-birth body and they've told you to join Churchill because you can be funny? You can stop counting now, I know they are many.

A lifestyle change is what I call becoming the Thika Super Highway. A lifestyle change is a transformation;meaning that even if rains or we get hit by a quake THIKA ROAD WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS. Read that again. Yes, please start rethinking all those life transforming diets & exercise regimes you've been through but when you stopped or dropped out, YOU WENT BACK TO THE WAY YOU WERE.

It all started with a conscious decision to take action by our then government. They wanted change and took action by contracting the Chinese to do the work. You need to stop just reading that we are at the YMCA every Monday, Wednesday & Friday.. come and sign up. Take Action. Realizing that you need to change and then taking action is everything. 

Were the Chinese the best for Job?  Probably not. But did they deliver?  without a doubt! So are we (Deliberate Fitness) the best, {Your mind should be saying Yes} probably not, because we may not have the latest gym equipment. But will we get you the results... That, I can show you better than I can tell you.

The entire PROCESS of transforming Thika Road to Thika SuperHighway took TIME, MONEY and PLANNING. It took effort, in fact everyone had to put in some effort. The Kenyan government, the Chinese contractors, the drivers and the passengers. Collective Effort. We all had to meet each other somewhere half way.

The PROCESS, was also very very uncomfortable. It took long, very long. Different parts of the road were being closed everyday and you had to look for alternatives. Diversions were all over the road. They made people more aware when driving so that you don't get lost or keep driving around in circles. There was so much dust everywhere, most of it inside the Car and ridiculous traffic. (The Combination of dust & traffic still annoys me to date just thinking about it).

Your lifestyle change journey will look a little something like that. You will sometimes hurt after exercise, it's a process so it'll take time, sometimes too long to see results and you may have to replace your favorite treats with healthier food choices that may not necessarily be as tasty. Simply put it's going to be a long, hard and uncomfortable journey, but not painful of course. {No pain No gain is a myth}.

Did life stop for the Super Highway to be built? Haha I wish! Adjustments had to be made. We had to change the routes that we'd normally use just to get where we were going. The Chinese had to work at night, so as to disrupt the traffic a little less. We had to walk a tad further to get to the bus stop. Adjustments, Changes and sacrifices are inevitable, if you want that change. Wake up earlier & hit the gym, beat the evening traffic to make it to YMCA at 5.30pm. Cook at home instead of eating take out. Drag yourself to a workout even when every fibre in you is telling you, I don't feel like it. All these are a necessary part(Sacrifice)of the process. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE COMFORTABLE.

After all that, the Super Highway today is efficient, beautiful and a work of art. Travel has become a lot easier and faster. I don't need to spell out the benefits that you'll reap from all the sacrifice, should you decide to get fitter, the list is endless.

As efficient as the Super Highway is, does it get traffic? Or flooded when it rains? You Bet. Is there room for improvement, absolutely. When you start and commit to your fat loss/muscle building journey, it's not to mean that you won't slip every now and then. You will, A LOT. I expect that sometimes you won't feel like working out, over the holidays it is expected that you might over indulge. You can have a slice of cake or 14 every now and then. You are expected to slip and not be perfectly healthy all the time. What is not acceptable is going back to the way you were or from where you started. Once you start the journey, you'll forever be a work in progress. You can always get better, stronger, faster or limber. It'll be a never ending process.

Finally when the Super Highway got done we were all impressed, took drive tests just for fun and took photos sending them to our families in the diaspora. Right now the fire, excitement and pomp is all gone. Now it's just a highway. But does that make it less efficient, absolutely not. Expect the same thing. You start losing weight or gaining muscle(that coveted six-pack) everyone will be talking about you if not congratulating you, asking you what you've been doing. Over time, people stop noticing. This is when you remind yourself that you're still very efficient and that there's no possible way you could go back.

A lifestyle change should make it hard for us to picture how you looked like before the transformation. It should make it IMPOSSIBLE to go back. No matter what happens a butterfly can never go back into a caterpillar and Thika SuperHighway can never the Thika Road we had up until 2010.

This week's Action Step is just go out there,{YMCA State Hse Rd every Monday, Wednesday & Friday} sign up and start. Or at least use the SuperHighway to visit Thika;beautiful small town with great people. There's a reason it's called Thika SuperHighway and not Nairobi Super Highway.

This is us undergoing Construction....

Cheers!