I went to one of my favorite classes at the gym last night.
Kicked my can.
Loved it.
I LOVE exercising and one of the main reasons I love to exercise is it clears my HEAD!
It is so good for my mental psyche!
I’ve heard the effects of exercise on the mind are similar to the effects of anti-depressant drugs.
I’ve definitely found this to be true.
If I’m ever stressed out, worried, anxious, sad, angry….whatever…
Exercise ALWAYS makes me feel better!
Loooove it!
****************************
Well, last night I was feeling really bugged at myself because I have been such a slacka with my eating!!
I was feeling a little bit chubb and I thought, “what the heck am I doing!!???”
I am such a good exercise lady.
I love it and rarely miss a workout!
So, what is the problem with my eating!!???
Why can’t I be as motivated and consistent with my eating!!???
Soooooo, I thought about this for a while and came up with some pretty deep thoughts.
I of course, will share them with you.
It’s kind of tough to put into words, so I hope I can make sense.
******************************
I love eating well and exercising.
It makes me so happy, keeps me motivated and gives me an awesome outlook on life!
It also makes me look better, feel better and sleep better!
What’s not to love???
So, why can’t I just do it ALL THE TIME!???
?????????
I’ve decided I might be a “self sabotager!”
Auuughh!
For whatever reason, it seems like as soon as I start to see results or taste success, I withdraw.
Hello!?
I was reading somewhere that sometimes when we’re trying to lose weight we sabotage ourselves.
It’s not really a conscious thing.
There are many reasons we may do this….
Here are some of the possible reasons:
- Love of comfort foods (and their stress relieving qualities) and fear of giving them up.
- Afraid of the added attention from losing weight.
- Not quite ready to “let go” of the old comfy life.
- Fear of failure; “If we don’t try too hard, we can’t fail.”
- Social pressures of eating well (friends and family may not be supportive and may be a temptation to stray from healthy habits).
- Afraid of gaining the weight back and looking like a failure.
These are just a few I came up with. I’m sure there are a zillion more!
I think I might do this to myself, but I can’t quite put my finger on why!??
Weird.
I think my main reason is that I associate my favorite, yummy (non-healthy) food with happiness, stress relief, parties, good times, etc.
I think I’m afraid of letting those foods go….so I cling to them!
Really weird.
It’s deep, I know.
I’m going to get to the bottom of it and figure it out though.
I’m not going to let all my hard work and efforts be in vain!!
So, I know I HAVE to GET MY HEAD IN THE GAME and allow myself to be successful!!
I hope someone out there can relate…
Or am I a quack?
I don’t know, but I DO know the whole mental part of weight loss is GIANT and essential to our success!
I AM going to hit it hard in January though!
Yay!
I will put my little eating and exercise plan up here ASAP and then if any of you want to do it too, you can!
Fun!
Oh, I hope you all have a WONDERFUL Christmas!!!
It’s Christmas Eve tomorrow……Eeeeee!!!
I feel like a little kid.
I love Christmas….and I love you all.
I think I’m afraid it won’t matter, that no matter what I do, I still won’t look good. It’s stupid, but that’s what I’m stuck on. so I eat thinking it doesn’t really matter anyway.
OH MY GOSH Amy, I can so relate! I feel the same way. I really lack the faith and don’t realize what an impact for better or worse my eating has on my body! It is so frustrating. However, I KNOW that if we keep up the exercise and healthy eating, we WILL see a difference! I KNOW you can do it. I wish you lived here, dang it. We could keep each other on track. Love you lots.