Mikey Moon's health and fitness column: Success is personal

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This week’s column is about something I love to talk about. It is about how success is a personal thing, which differs from person to person.

Because stories of body transformations are all over social media, and in other media too, it is easy to feel like a failure if we don’t achieve the same results.

However, as I say, success is personal. Results for you might be completely different to results for someone else.

We always think of success in terms of weight loss or inches lost, but for some people it might be something else entirely.

For every person who is happy about losing weight, there will be someone who is excited about gaining weight.

For someone it might be a success to turn down pizza at a friend’s party; for someone else it might be a success to eat that pizza and not feel guilty the next day.

One person might set foot in the gym for the first time and that will be a success, whereas a success for someone else might be taking a weekend off.

Whichever way you look at it, the only way to measure success is to make sure that it is your success.

Whatever that success is, it doesn’t matter how it measures up to other people’s success – it only matters how it measures up to yours.

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