15/11/2025
On Tuesday I locked the door of the home I’d lived in since 2020 for the last time.
It was the place I’d raised my boys. The place I’d built a life in. The place that saw five years of memories, chaos, homework, Christmas mornings and everything in between.
Life changed, as life does, and it was time to move on. The house now belongs to a new family who will fill it with their own noise, their own stories and their own moments.
That part stung, but it also reminded me of something I teach my clients all the time.
You can be doing everything “right”, you can be settled, you can feel like you’re on the exact track you were meant to be on, and then things shift.
Something changes.
A chapter ends.
You need to adapt.
That is how life works.
That is how fat loss works.
That is how habits work.
Most people get stuck because they keep trying to live in an old chapter of their life.
Old routines.
Old comfort habits.
Old weekend patterns.
Old coping mechanisms.
They keep fighting to hold onto a lifestyle that no longer fits who they are now.
And when it stops working, they panic. They feel lost. They blame themselves. They slip into all or nothing.
The truth is simple.
Sometimes you need to take a step back before you can take a bigger step forward.
Sometimes you need to let go of the old version of you to make space for the new one.
That is exactly where I am right now. A transition phase. A reset. A rebuild.
Not failure. Not collapse.
Just the part where the foundation gets laid for what comes next.
And if you’re in that place too, remember this:
You are allowed to start again.
You are allowed to outgrow things.
You are allowed to change direction.
You are allowed to build a healthier, stronger, calmer life even if you’ve messed up a thousand times before.
Your next chapter starts with one choice.
Your habits are the doorway.
And you don’t need to wait until January, Monday or “when things calm down”.
You can start today.