If you are eager to know how I got my groove back so you can too? Ready for the book or movie to come out? Problem is this...the script could be written on a postage stamp. Simply put...I don't know.
I've been down this journey many many times. It has always been a struggle otherwise I would have only gone down this road once. Frankly, I don't know if what I'm feeling now is permanent or if I'm still in the honeymoon phase of it as well.
I do know that I have always been seeking a "feeling" that making healthful choices comes naturally and easy. That it doesn't involve mental gymnastics..or very little. That becoming healthy and staying healthy isn't a struggle...an effort to resent as something you have to do versus wanting to do it.
Bottom line...I'm not sure how I've reached this place. Yes...I've altered my diet and exercise so that I've both lost weight and increased my level of fitness...but those are physiological outcomes that are predictable based on how we know the body works. The rest is a psychological outcome and we know darned well, that there is little true knowledge in what makes someone inherently change their frame of mind.
I didn't use positive affirmations...I didn't use visualization in the textbook sense. I just went about the process of working on the physiological leaving the psychological to work itself out.
I'll tell you what I do know...is that in my past journeys (and this one too), I was focused on the mind way too much and lamenting why it fought me each step of the way. So, if I have any advice to give is this...stop fighting it...move on to ignoring it. Tell your mind that you need to eat in a certain way and move your body in other ways and that your mind will come around.
That devil on your shoulder has no power and you are the only angel that can defeat it.
Kinda sounds like you took Nike's advice...the whole "just do it" thing works, and you don't have to overthink. BTW, your book and my book sound about the same - I feel bad when people ask me WHY it clicked, because I pretty much have the same answer as you. Hmmm, maybe we could start the "I Don't Know" diet? ;)
ReplyDeleteYes...but I would say it is a hindsight realization. I did and especially when I push myself on a run, I'm still fighting my mind. So...my only lesson learned to share is, as you say, just do it.
DeleteI think so much of this is mental - the reason we overate, the reason we chose bad foods for ourselves..etc that we get caught up in that - rather than "just doing it". I think my head is now in a place where I'm telling myself - the WHY doesn't matter anymore. Just do the right things NOW.
ReplyDeleteIt is hugely mental...and I guess what I learned is to stop fighting it. I think the mind wants to resist the changes that we want so it is better to tell it to get bent instead of wrangling with it. You got it right...the WHY may be interesting to know, but doesn't truly affect the outcome.
DeleteAwesome - That's a great place to be!
ReplyDeleteKeep focused!
Perhaps it's all in the MIND... with a "capital M"... and we just think it's the body...
ReplyDeleteAt ANY rate -it is a great place to be. Doesn't sell alot of books. Just simply a great place to be!