It was once said that habits are more powerful than momentary desire, more than information, even more powerful than guilt. But if you’re serious about being healthier and losing weight, you need to quit playing and “c’mon with the c’mon”! If you want to change your life, you have got to CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Become aware of the habitual rut you’re in and starting making the changes you know you should be making.
So when are you going to make that change, huh? Tomorrow? Next week? You saving up for 2011’s resolution?
Trust me, I know bad habits are hard to break. Especially when having to contend with a thousand other daily stressors in your life. And as you fight to phase yourself out of the patterns that are keeping you from reaching your fitness goals, stressful situations push you right back into your old ways with little effort. But don’t let a slip up sway you into skipping a workout. Don’t let a moment where you inhale an entire bag of jelly beans because you had a crappy day to throw you completely off course.
One of my favorite statements I tell clients now is, “If you fall off the fitness bandwagon, start walking!” It takes a great deal of dedication and fortitude to get and stay fit, and results for the better never seem to happen quick enough. But you simply cannot get discouraged. You have get back up and keep it moving. Now more than ever you need to resist the urge to throw in the towel, no matter how many setbacks you may suffer.
So let’s say you’re on the move and you’ve committed yourself to exercise. Wonderful! But you have to be aware of the process you’re undertaking, and all its stages, lest you surely fall back into that bag of jellybeans in a state of frustration and despair. A mistake many people make is assuming that when you go all out in your workout regime—everything you read in the fitness magazine that the experts told you to do ... you’re lifting, you’re running, you’re cardio kickboxing, you’re yoga … ing—that weight is going to immediately drop off and continue to melt away at a steady pace. Sadly, not so. The initial shock your body experiences as you throw yourself into a fitness frenzy will no doubt cause a drop on the scale. But this beautiful effect quickly wears off, especially if your routine becomes, well, routine.
One thing you have to remember so you don’t just give up because you stop seeing results, is that as you lose weight, it gets harder and harder to do so.
