A road less daunting…
When faced with the task of losing weight the road ahead looks long. My mum will tell me she’s put on 3 lbs and needs to cut back so she can lose it. It makes me crazy 3 POUNDS ARE YOU SERIOUS! I won’t share with you what I say to her, it’s kind of course. To her 3 lbs is a big deal but let’s put that in perspective – that I can lose in a few days but what about those people who want to lose 80, 90, 100 or more pounds. What are they faced with? A long road ahead. A road of discipline, planning, self reflection, denial, let downs, self sabotage, joy! Diets bring mixed emotions. Glee when you succeed, misery when you feel you’ve failed. There is no ‘try’. You’re either going to do it or you’re not. If you ‘try’ at something it means that you will give it a shot but you’ve left the door open for failure so you have a way out “oh well I said I was going to try. See, I tried and failed”. Nothing worth committing to should be about trying it needs to be about doing. If you’re going to attempt something go into it with the attitude that you will succeed. “I’m going to do this” is much more positive than “I’m going to try to do this”.
We all have to start somewhere right? And when faced with a larger than life task ahead of us isn’t it best to break it down into smaller goals? I’ve never been very good at this. Generally my approach is to dive in and look at the whole task ahead rather than increments. How’s that working for me….it’s not. So I came up with this idea a couple of weeks back. What if I took my age – 45 and said ok, I will commit to exercise and eating less for 45 days 45 days doesn’t seem too daunting. My first goal. I’m only going to focus on that, I am not getting ahead of myself. For 45 days I can exercise each day, some sort of exercise surely, I will be going away twice during that time and I am sick at the moment so my routine is and will be messed up but if I commit to it for a short period of time I will do it. Eat less and some exercise for 45 days and I will document it…here goes…
