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Stepping outside of your comfort zone...

StickingWithIt2015
StickingWithIt2015 Posts: 34 Member
edited January 12 in Motivation and Support
I have been challenged by my health coach to step outside of my comfort zone. For people like me (complete control freaks) it was a very daunting task. Below are a few things I have tried outside of my comfort zone in the past week.

- Planks: held a lank for 1 minute
- Kale: I baked kale chips...and they were good!
- Greek Yogurt: It's not too far out of my zone but I didn't want to even try it at first.
- Writing EVERYTHING down. Even the days when I am ashamed of what I ate (my diary is open).
- Mahi Mahi: trying a new fish was scary no matter what anyone says lol

What have you done to get outside of your comfort zone?

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  • xxnellie146xx
    xxnellie146xx Posts: 996 Member
    I started running on the treadmill at the gym last month. I was convinced that everyone would would be watching and laughing. Truth is no on cares!

    Great job on trying new things!
  • Mikkimeow
    Mikkimeow Posts: 1,282 Member
    Eating more than 1300 calories a day when I started my weight loss. I thought that you had to cut cals drastically to lose weight. Eventually I learned all about TDEE and fueling my body, but it was so scary that first week I ate 1900 cals a day. I was convinced I would never lose weight like that.
  • trb85
    trb85 Posts: 81 Member

    - Writing EVERYTHING down. Even the days when I am ashamed of what I ate (my diary is open).

    This is me.

    There are some days when I go significantly over my goal. I force myself to log everything. If I don't log it, then I'm just doing it for appearances so my MFP diary looks good. It doesn't change the fact that I actually ate it. Instead of shaming myself and feeling like I have to hide, I just log it all and move on.

    As far as what I've done to step outside of my comfort zone .... exercise.
  • kelly1142
    kelly1142 Posts: 27 Member

    - Writing EVERYTHING down. Even the days when I am ashamed of what I ate (my diary is open).

    This is me.

    There are some days when I go significantly over my goal. I force myself to log everything. If I don't log it, then I'm just doing it for appearances so my MFP diary looks good. It doesn't change the fact that I actually ate it. Instead of shaming myself and feeling like I have to hide, I just log it all and move on.

    As far as what I've done to step outside of my comfort zone .... exercise.

    This has helped me considerably since I jumped back on the wagon post holidays. Even on my over days, I log everything! It keeps me honest and also, it helps me from going too far over most of the time.
  • nycalison
    nycalison Posts: 51 Member
    I know what you mean about logging everything! I ate three cupcakes yesterday and didn't log it, woke up this morning and went back and added them, there is no hiding in weight loss!
  • StickingWithIt2015
    StickingWithIt2015 Posts: 34 Member
    Thanks everyone for your replies!!! I stepped outta my comfort zone again today....and dare I say it was fun?!?!

    Changed up my workout at the gym:
    Normal routine is 20 min cardio on arc trainer and 40 min on weight machines.
    Today's routine was 30 min cardio....5 min walk warm up, 1 min jog/4min walk (4sets), 5 min cool down. Then I did free weights, Kettle Bell (1 type of exercise), Bench press, and this very scary 45 degree back extension machine (Cybex).

    All I can say is....CHANGE IS GOOD!
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