FatScrap 11th to 17th October - How To Achieve Your Healthy Eating and Exercise Goals

Hi and welcome back!


Here are some things you could this week to help you achieve your goals. How many of these ideas have you tried to make sure you stay motivated and on track?
Which ideas have you put into action already and are helping you?
Which of these ideas might you need to put into action now?



Create Urgency

• Identify potential threats showing what might happen if you don’t eat healthily and exercise regularly.

• Examine opportunities that show what might happen if you do eat healthily and exercise regularly.

• Create convincing and compelling reasons why you want to eat healthily and exercise regularly.

• Gain support from professionals, friends and family who want to help you eat healthily and exercise regularly.

• Take time to buy into eating healthily and exercising regularly and prepare for it

Create Action

• Identify the things you can do to eat healthily and exercise regularly.

• Emotionally commitment yourself to eating healthily and exercising regularly.

• Identify how you can eat healthily and exercise regularly.

• Identify and acquire any further resources or skills you may need to eat healthily and exercise regularly.

Create a Vision

• Determine your values that are central to eating healthily and exercising regularly.

• Develop a short summary (one or two sentences) that captures the person you "see" eating healthily and exercising regularly.

• Create a strategy to execute that vision.

• Practice your "vision speech" in the present tense often.

Communicate the Vision

• Talk often about your vision in the present tense.

• Openly and honestly communicate your concerns and anxieties to yourself and to people who can support you.

• Apply your vision to all your actions

• Practice your vision by acting as if it has already been made

Remove Obstacles

• Take responsibility for eating healthily and exercising regularly.

• Ensure your actions are in line with your vision.

• Recognize and reward yourself for making change happen.

• Identify the person you are when you are resisting eating healthily and exercising regularly

• Take action to quickly remove barriers (human or otherwise).

Create Short-term Wins

• Create short term realistic and achievable targets that you can implement successfully

• Choose early targets that are worth the cost. You want to be able to justify the investment in each project.

• Thoroughly analyze the potential pros and cons of your targets. If you don't succeed with an early goal, it can hurt your entire change initiative.

• Reward yourself as you meet the targets you set.

Build on achievements

• As you achieve your targets, Analise what went right and what needs improving.

• Set goals and targets which continue building on the momentum you've achieved.

• Keep ideas fresh by reminding yourself why you want to eat healthily and exercise regularly.

Anchor the vision
• Make eating healthily and exercising regularly part of who you are.
• Show the values behind your vision in your daily actions.

• Be passionate about eating healthily and exercising regularly and recognise the value it has in your life

• Be persistent and create actions to maintain eating healthily and exercising regularly

• Add emotion to your vision

I hope this finds you going where you want to go and being the person you want to be..if not, then I hope it brings you more direction and focus.

Sue x