This is another question I constantly ponder. There are so many active people out there who look like they have it all together. They are fit, they are active, they lose weight and maintain their loss. But why is it so hard for me to do the same? I have been to goal weight time and time again and when I get there I get lax and that's when the weight returns little by little. I have come to the conclusion that we just can't become lazy. We gain weight by eating too much and not moving enough. We eat the wrong things and too much of it. Even if you are eating the right things you can still be eating to much of it and gain weight! This is one of the reasons I stopped weight watchers. Fruits and Veggies are free foods and you can eat as much as you'd like without taking away any of your points. But guess what? Eating to much of a good thing can be bad. Fruit has a lot of sugar in it and too much of it can make you gain weight.
21 day fix fixes that for us. We are given colored containers and each container represents a food group and depending on your weight/height etc determines how many of each you get throughout the day and combined with Shakeology (which taste amazing by the way!) results happen. The beginning was the hardest for me because I only got two yellow (Carbs) containers a day. But over time I've realized sometimes I don't even need those containers as I have taught myself to make different choices. I am eating things today that I wouldn't have thought twice about before starting the 21 Day Fix.
So we are at goal weight. Now what? You get into the mindset that I don't need to exercise as much or you can add back in those things you know you shouldn't eat because these foods got you to where you were before. And then before you know it you've gone weeks without exercising and you've gained some weight back.
This is the cycle I am currently on except this time the weight simply isn't coming off like it used to. Which only makes me frustrated. It makes me want to quit and give up. I think "whats the point". But as a Beachbody Coach what does that show my clients? So I pick myself up and continue where I left off without skipping a beat. Learning everyday what I need to do to get the job done.
- No more throwing in the towel
- Keep pushing regardless of whether or not the scale moves
- Focus on the process not the progress
- Stop being lax
- Never, ever give up
- Be an inspiration
- Glorify God with the way I take care of myself and the way I help others
This journey isn't easy. Its hard. It takes work. It takes determination and it takes motivation from within yourself to continue. This journey is 90% mental and 10% physical!
Its like what my Pastor reminds us from the pulpit almost on a weekly basis. We have to renew are mind and we have to do it every.single.day. If we don't we will continue along the same old path making the same crappy choices. Choices that make us feel terrible about ourselves. Jesus went 40 days and 40 nights without anything and we cry about giving up sweets every day and limiting it to one serving maybe once or twice a week.
Its not going to be easy but in the end it will be worth it.
What change are you willing to make today that will get you to where you want to be tomorrow?
If Jesus can do it, so can you!
If Jesus can do it, so can you!
