So in my last blog I talked about tossing aside the idea of setting New Year’s Resolutions for fitness. I touched a bit on how it’s something that we have to want to change. There has to be a desire inside of us to make a positive difference in our health.
Here is the next thing I think is important to get into our minds. We have to stop toying with the whole “start again” routine. I have said it myself, “I will start again after this celebration or this holiday.” “I will start again next Monday.” You fill in your own “start again” statement.
We get stuck in this vicious circle of thinking, like we do with New Year’s, that there is something magical about it being the start of a new week or that something different is going to happen just because we passed a birthday or a holiday. It doesn’t work that way.
Again, I have to emphasize that the need to lose weight or start exercising has to originate with the want. You have to want it. You can know you don’t really want it if you keep falling into the traps I have talked about…the setting of New Year’s Resolutions or deciding to “start again” at another time.
I recently came to understand this about myself. It was all talk, my wanting to change my fitness lifestyle. It wasn’t real. When you want something, you do it. When you want chocolate you don’t ever hear yourself say, “Well, I will just wait until Monday.” No, you eat the chocolate right then and there.
This is where it all has to start, in your mind. If the desire is there it will happen. But if it’s not there then what you have to work on is getting it there. Losing weight is not an instant thing. We are used to instant coffee, instant cash and the list goes on. A healthy lifestyle isn’t instant.
In my next blog I am going to talk about what to do if you know you need to lose weight but you have come to realize that you don’t really want to. In other words, you don’t really want to give up those things that you enjoy.
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