Halfway to…….

As soon as I heard the title this song popped into my head and has stayed there!!!

I want to be your lover
But your friend is all I’ve stayed
I’m only halfway to paradise
So near, yet so far away
I long for your lips to kiss my lips
But just when I think they may
You lead me halfway to paradise
So near, yet so far away, mmm
Bein’ close to you is almost heaven (heaven)
But seein’ you can do just so much
It hurts me so to know your heart’s a treasure (treasure)
And that my heart is forbidden to touch, so
Put your sweet lips close to my lips
And tell me that’s where they’re gonna stay
Don’t lead me halfway to paradise
Mmm, so near, yet so far away
Oh, oh, oh so near, yet so far away
Mmm, so near, yet so far away

CAROLE KING AND GERRY GOFFIN sung by billy fury

The last section in particular, so near yet so far away!

“Don’t lead me halfway to paradise
Mmm, so near, yet so far away
Oh, oh, oh so near, yet so far away
Mmm, so near, yet so far away”

Halfway to paradise could mean you’ve smashed the first six months and are halfway to achieving your perfect weight! It could also mean you have squandered the last six months and need to get focused and motivated if you don’t want to end 2025 heavier than you started! Always a Reason….

Everyone begins a New Year full of optimism and promise, 12 whole months to have embraced your new healthy eating regime, 12 whole months to see those new behaviours, tactics and habits pay off to transform you into the very best version of you that it’s possible to be. The happier, healthier and lighter you that we all know is hiding inside, just waiting to emerge!! All in the space of one year…..

But those days, weeks and months soon melt away leaving us wishing we had put our barrow down and got going! If it is to be……

This week marks the halfway point of 2025, an appropriate time to reflect on what has been achieved so far.

You may feel you are stuck halfway up the stairs….

It’s time to get moving in the direction you want to be going, and you are already on the staircase!

Remind yourself of why you want to do this, the benefits it will bring, and that you have been successful so far, you ARE already halfway there.

Halfway down the stairs is a stair where I sit
there isn’t any other stair quite like it.
I’m not at the bottom, I’m not at the top,
so this is the stair where I always stop

A.A. Milne

Just don’t stay there! Now is the time to continue taking the steps towards our ultimate success instead of staying halfway there!!!!