What we are willing to sacrifice in the name of these priorities is totally a personal choice.
One thing is definite though, you are
always a sum total of your actions to date.
- If you have made a TRUE decision to lose some fat mass, your priorities need to encompass the willingness to sacrifice some of those lesser nutritional choices
- If you want to get strong, you will need to sacrifice some of your abdominal definition in turn for a large, solid torso with a small amount of fat mass (think
strongman V bodybuilder)
When I first started as a PT I wanted to 'fix' everyone the same way I did it. It took a couple of sessions to realise that we needed to find each individual's way to success.
There has since been as many ways to success as there has been clients!
Sacrifices should ideally be linked to your overriding long term priorities
Some examples I've come across that have really worked are:
- move well and move often
- eat more protein
- drink more
water
- sleep better
- reduce stress
- get strong
- get fast
Choosing just one of these and then educating yourself what actions you need to take, what sacrifices you need
to make, and what success will look like for you gives you a solid template to base all those many decisions on we make across the day.
If you do look down and see a bit of extra belly, you know how it got there so don't worry or feel any guilt. Position what you have achieved in leui of the firmer tummy.
Can you then channel this back into your
goals?:
- the amazing kids I have brought up are now old enough to come exercise with me?
- those same kids are getting faster...now it's time to keep one step ahead and get faster too!
- that new role at work has settled down. Now it is payback time so I'm NOT feeling guilty when I slope off a tad early
to hit the gym!
So it works both ways.
Sacrificing our health needs a slight repositioning of our priorities.
Making a sacrifice of our less positive habits re-positions our priorities to give us a higher purpose and template to channel our energy
into.
Wherever you are on your health journey is neither your fault or anyone or anything around you if you are little bit behind.
The decisions you have made can only ever be what you felt was right for you at the time so don't stress on it.
Just take a bit of time to tweak your priorities, switch off to all the noise and charge headlong into making one at a time a habit for life
And.....please make sure you have fun along the way!
J
