Hi and welcome back!
We are all very good at telling ourselves what we should do, what we ought to do, what we must do, and we are even better at telling ourselves that we can't and that we have failed - a habit that can become a destructive self fulfilling prophecy - we talk ourselves into giving up!
Stuck State
What you focus on is what you get, so all the while you focus on what you can't do, you will stay not being able to achieve. You will remain a victim of your circumstances.
Action State
Where concentration goes, energy flows, so all the while that you concentrate on what you can do, you will create action and achieve. You will become responsible for your circumstances.
Perfect/Imperfect Action
Perhaps this is where the problem lies for most of us, we set ourselves up to fail by creating high expectations - we expect to be perfect! When we start a weight loss programme we expect to lose weight, we expect to be able to change our eating habits overnight and become someone who only eats "good" food; we expect to become someone who loves exercise and wants to do it everyday; we expect our talk to do the walk for us. But I think that most of you have found that this doesn't happen. It takes lots of practice for things to become habits - let's face it, you don't become a driver overnight, it takes weeks and months of practice and making mistakes before you can drive a car without having to concentrate hard on where you are going, what you have to do and how you have to do it, so why should you become a healthier, fitter and slimmer person overnight? It takes weeks and months of practice, making mistakes and having to concentrate on where you are going, what you have to do and how you have to do it.
The key to becoming something different is to take imperfect action, allowing yourself to make mistakes but then learning form these mistakes so that next time you can try and do something different to avoid making the same mistake again. This is not the same as failure - Failure is giving up!!
Start walking your talk and take an imperfect action today to help you get fitter, healthier and slimmer!
Sue x
2 comments:
Hi Sue,
Still alive!! We'll it has been a very full-on few days with the builders and university visits, but after the weekend things will be less hectic. Looking forward to going to beautiful Scotland next week and doing some lovely walks.
Nothing very interesting to report, food has continued to progress in the right way, plenty of vegetables. Still think I need to add more protein, but I am aware of this so I'm on it!
Food today:-
Brekky shredded wheat and raisins.
Snack - oat biscuits and hommous.
Lunch - homemade vegetable soup.
1 tiny potato and a slither of cheese.
Dinner - slow cooked beef and green veg.
See you tomorrow :)
I have had a difficult week but am back Fatscrapping – at least with my food.
B’FAST: Porridge with skimmed milk
LUNCH: 3 oatcakes, smoked mackerel, mixed salad
SNACK: Small glass of home-made smoothie – banana, strawberries, raspberries and seeds
DINNER – Home-made pork, spinach and mushroom curry, purple sprouting
Smoothie was inspired by the smoothies Sue made at last week’s Bootcamp and the Pork curry was inspired by Sue’s BNS + Lentil curry.
Tomorrow I’ll be making Sue’s fruit cake and going for a walk.
Daffodil
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