It’s the New Year (happy new years!). You are determined you are going to start living a healthy lifestyle by changing your diet and exercise. You’re going great! You are so strong! But then, uh-0… a bump happens. Maybe you went out to dinner and ate 3 baskets of chips and salsa. (I just busted myself out!) Maybe in the market, you saw a bag of your favorite chips which you could not resist. You bought it, took it home and ate the whole bag and went back to the store for more. How do you feel about yourself? Like you failed. So, you start again and are doing great for 2 to 3 days, and then you sit down in front of T.V. and here comes a commercial advertising your favorite ice cream. All you do for the next hour is crave it. It over comes you, and your back at the store buying a gallon of it. You eat it, and once again, you feel failure. Finally you come to the conclusion that why even try? You start off great, but then temptation comes along, you give into it, and then you feel worse about yourself cuz you failed again. So, you dump the whole “living healthy lifestyle” cuz to tell the truth, at least you will not have to go through the pain of failing again.
If you think about it, we deal with failure in many parts of our lives. With our work, families, friends, finances. It seems like all of life is a swim upstream. However, swimming upstream builds muscle. So, what is the correct way to deal with so called failures? View them not as failing, but as a little fall. When a baby is learning to walk, he falls over and over again. He doesn’t just lay there and say to him (however babies talk to themselves) “I fell down again! I will never walk. I mide as well just lay here cuz it’s hopeless!” If that’s the way babies think, all of us would still be laying on the ground!
Changing from an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one is going to be the same thing. You will fall. Get back up. Fall. Get back up. Keep getting back up. Pretty soon, you will not fall as much. Then, you will be running and hardly falling at all. Never give up. At the end of the race you will be proud and see that, yes! You indeed DID conquer!
Laurie Jones offering in home personal training
Lauriesimplyfit.com 530-370-8228
