...how even the littlest change can make an amazing difference. I have had a 4 week break from exercising - mostly my nightly walk home from work - initially due to a bad back and then last week because I was feeling down. I started walking again yesterday as I don't ever want to get back out of the habit...and I was in a bad mood from work...and wella, by the time I finished the walk I felt so much better. Obviously the endorphins kicked in. I have never really noticed, or appreciated, before the difference this makes to the inner me and how much it can be a motivator to keep going.
Back into the old/new habits and on day two, doing just fine. My body can tell the difference between what I have been eating for the last 4 weeks and back to healthy choices and in the kitchen. Still not quite where I was but am cutting out the junk food and eating more vegetables again. Just cooking, getting back into that routine.
I think this will be called the second phase of my lifestyle change. Partially because I have been off the change for a month and partially because it will help as a mental spur to get me to my true first goal. I haven't been far off it for nearly 2 months now and I think may have gone backwards a little due to that mental block I have about this particular goal. I will break that block. It is important.
Have you ever noticed how one block, no matter how small, can be seemingly insurmountable? It is time to take this block...and to me it has been a huge block...and smash it to pieces.
Breaking the block ideas.
1. Back to logging my dietary intake again.
2. Back to logging my exercise again.
3. Back to blogging and discussing it with the 2 people I value the most through this process - my two closest friends: one with whom we are partaking this journey together and the other who is very healthy in mind and body and is happy for me to bounce my discoveries off and offers sage advice.
4. Back to not beating myself over the head for not being great but trying to do the best by myself on a daily basis.
5. Back to trying to be as organised as possible.
Hopefully, soon, I shall have big news and have broken through to my first goal. I will keep you posted.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Motivation
Have discovered a seriously lack of motivation over the last couple of weeks. I can give you excuses for all of my bad habits rearing their ugly heads but one of the things I am trying to learn not to do is to use excuses any more. They are just a cop-out and not an answer. My question is how do I find the motivation again. Have started to get back on track a little but nowhere near enough to really start my regime again.
How do you stop old emotionally charged eating habits but still, at the end of the day, get out of the blues? How do you motivate yourself for exercising again when you have been in pain for weeks? These are things that need to be learned. These make up the basis for the motivation. If I can learn at least this then I have a starting point.
My solution is to just go at it one day at a time at this point. Meaning that I will not beat myself up if one my new day one that I break out. I will try the next day not to break and so on and so forth. Exercise, I am finding is a little harder to get back on board. I seem to be very discouraged at the moment and just want to find solace hiding in my bedroom so I am aiming to get home from work quickly, meaning a bus journey and not my walking. I do know this is silly by the way. I love my time walking. I feel so much calmer and happier within myself. So, why do I fight it? Why don't I want to? Is it true subconscious self-sabotage? I truly don't know. All I can do is try to get back into the right headspace.
I am looking at other blogs and trying to see how others get back their motivation when having that fall off but it's a little hard to find that completely honest truth.
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