Fitness
Making a healthy fitness and nutrition program a long term part of your life can have it’s difficult moments. There’s nothing easy about breaking unhealthy habits you’ve had for years and learning to eat healthy and exercise.
There will be days when you wake up in the morning and don’t feel like getting out of bed early to exercise, days when you want to forget about cooking a healthy meal, and just hit the drive thru on your way home from work.
Facing your health and wellness road blocks is critical to long term success when it comes to fitness and nutrition. This is one of the major causes of yo-yo diets, once you hit a road block and don’t know how to move around it, you are much more likely to throw in the towel and return to your old comfortable habits.
Heart Smart Minute Tips: Move Past Your Road Blocks
NO MOTIVATION: Motivation comes from the habit of doing. You won’t wake up every morning jumping out of bed with excitement to get to the gym extra early before work. Don’t confuse motivation with excitement. Focus on the feeling you have after you exercise, the sense of accomplishment, of strength and health. Once you start to see your body changing you will have the surge of excitement.
SETTING UNREALISTIC GOALS: Don’t think the weight is going to fly off you on week 1. That’s not reality. Weight loss needs to be slow and achievable. Make your goal to lose 2lbs per week, that way you are able to sustain the weight loss. You can’t shock your system into losing weight and think your body won’t catch on to your methods. Remember, slow and steady wins the race.
NO RESULTS: Take the focus off the scale and on to the way your body looks and feels. Are your jeans looking better, do you have more energy during the day, are your joints moving better and less achy. All those elements play a huge role in weight loss. The number will come, so focus on the strength your body has.
NO TIME: This one is my favorite because it’s just the most ridiculous excuse. Skip watching TV for 1 hour a day and go exercise, get up an hour earlier in the morning and get moving. During my busiest time of the year, I’m up at 3:30am to exercise before my early morning clients. I don’t like it, but I do it because I enjoy the way my body looks and feels for the rest of the day. You can get used to anything, even getting up super early to make your health a priority.
