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Be Honest With Yourself
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Honesty with ourselves is, in my opinion, the hardest part of the health and fitness journey. It’s something that I struggled with big time and continue to struggle with occasionally from time to time.
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Flashback to me when I weighed 8 and a half stone. I was eating whatever I wanted without paying attention to amounts/portions, working out 4-5 days a week, drinking multiple glasses of wine every night (sometimes 2 bottles ? at a weekend) and eating waaaaaaay too much chocolate ?
“I’m healthy. I train often and have a lot of muscle. I can eat whatever I want. I earned this food.”
Truth is I was lying to myself everyday (and I had not earned anything). I wasn’t healthy and it wasn’t inline with my goals.
Seriously.?
I think back to the people I coached while being an unhealthy trainer… not exactly a good example for my clients, eh?
Sure, I carried the weight ok, but that didn’t mean I was healthy. I was actually pretty miserable. I didn’t sleep well. I couldn’t push hard in workouts. I wasn’t productive at work.
It wasn’t until I started being honest with myself that real changes started to happen. I had to stop justifying my poor relationship with food and alcohol if I wanted to get healthier.
I started tracking my food intake that would yield fat loss.
I disciplined myself to train a minimum 4x a week.
I stopped having wine and chocolate in the house (because if it’s there, I’m going to drink/eat it).
I had to stop ‘popping to the shops’ (no joke, willpower is tough).
I had to make some serious changes.
Present day: body weight is around 10st. I sleep so much better. Train smart and hard. Feel awesome in my own skin. Proud of myself.??
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So my challenge to you for the remainder of this week and weekend: be honest with yourself. If you have goals you’re working towards… are you really doing what you need to do to get there? Are you making it to the gym? Are you tracking your food intake? Are you staying hydrated? Are you sleeping enough?
Be honest.
“Nothing changes if nothing changes.”
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