February -Getting My Mindset Right

newnarelle

OK I have been up, down, up, down, on track, motivated and offtrack and flop! Gain weight, lose weight, gain weight, so with all those fails, there has been some learnings which I am going to endeavour to get me back to that mindset that helped me lose 20kg and stay there! I am going to think about everything that HAS worked, and ditch what HASN'T worked.

February goal – Simply getting my mindset right

It doesn't matter how healthy you eat, or how much you exercise if your mindset isn't right. Because then your hard work can just as easily be a distant memory no matter how you loooove being a gym bunny and enjoy all that beautiful fresh food! I know because it happened to me.

I have decided this week to make 2 slight changes, and that is all I need to do. I don’t have to change my eating habits no matter how bad they are except for breakfast for this week. That’s my focus, making sure I have breakfast, either cereal poached eggs with tomato and mushroom (weekend breakfast) is also acceptable as that was what worked best for me when I was at my best in eating. You would think it would be easy right? I have gotten into the habit of skipping or a muffin on way to work. Tsk tsk. The other change is just to exercise 3 times this week. No matter if it is just a walk, gym etc.

I am only up to Day 2, however so far I have achieved the breakfast and yesterday walked over the Harbour Bridge (North Sydney to the City about 40 min walk), then the fatty and skinny in me had an argument on way home, fatty saying well you already did a walk, so why do anymore, and skinny saying well fat *kitten* we are home early and you have got a bit more in ya. So Skinny won that fight. I got the gym and was going to just do a little jog a bit apprehensive of a class after being out of action so long. Again skinny assured me I could make it through a spin class, and where before I would be counting down for it to be over, as much as I was sweating and puffing, after 45 mins I was disappointed it was over. I went home full of adrenalin and wanted to do a boxing circuit in the backyard with my energetic nephews, but skinny compromised with fatty and let her just have some fun on the wii boxing instead. I kicked a 10 and 7 yo butt, does that make me tough? haha arms were a little sore after only 20 mins, and nephews thought it was funny challenging their aunty so I think I will be doing more of that. Even inspired my dad and nephews to want to do a mini bootcamp in the evenings in the backyard and adjoining park including the occasional wii challenges. We will see how that plays out, but will be good family bonding if nothing else!

The exercise automatically made me WANT to eat a healthy dinner. Today I really wanted to go to gym at lunch, and almost let fatty convince me to go to lunch with the girls with the promise we would go after work. Skinny then convinced fatty we should just do it while we have momentum, so off to body pump we went. Again I craved salad for lunch, with lots of water and yellow capsicum and grapes for afternoon tea.

So by making those two small changes, I am on the way to changing my mindset. This means I am still giving myself the choice, but now listening to what I actually want, and not beating myself up if I slip either. Next week I will add another small change, and keep adding changes each week throughout February until I am naturally back in that healthy state of mind.

Just thought I would share

All the best everyone!

Narelle xx