What are your fitness barriers?
The top three reasons people fail with a fitness plan
1. Do you believe that once you reach a certain size or weight, you’ll be happy?
When you say to yourself, “I’ll be happy when I reach ____ pounds,” one of two outcomes will result.
The first outcome is that you never reach that weight and are, therefore, never happy. The second outcome is that you reach that magical weight and realize after a while that is has absolutely nothing to do with your happiness.
The way to reach an understanding about your weight is to identify and deal with the underlying problem or issue with you and weight. Start by paying attention to when you eat and what food means to you.
Then you can start to take care of yourself in a way that makes the weight less of a struggle. Food is not your enemy, it is a tool to give you energy and be healthy.
2. Do you frequently look for a shortcut or an easier way to achieve what you want?
Dedication, commitment, and effort are needed to accomplish anything worthwhile.
You need to make a plan and stick to it if you want to achieve success when it comes to raising your family and succeeding in your career. The same goes for maintaining a successful, loving relationship.
Persistence and taking small steps every day is required to accomplish most anything worthwhile. Losing weight and taking care of you is no exception.
When you are counting on your health, fitness, and weight loss goals to be accomplished by the latest fad, you are really looking for something to take the place of making lasting changes in your routines.
Take the time to make realistic goals and action steps that support your healthy sel
3. Do you frequently use excuses to get yourself out of doing what it takes to reach your goals?
“I don’t have time.”
“I don’t like to sweat.”
“The rest of my family would never eat that.”
“Then I’d have to shower before I go to work.”
“I have to travel a lot in my line of work.”
“My shins hurt when I do that.”
“I have asthma.”
“I get a rash when I do that.”
“Then what do I do with all those sweaty clothes?”
“I’ll start Monday.”
“I’ll focus on that next year.”
So many people just want to talk about making a change. But when it comes right down to doing the work or making the decisions, which sometimes are hard or 'tough', they prefer to offer excuses as to why they continue living their lives just as they are. Don’t be a victim of your own excuses... If you have excuses, you’re not ready, plain and simple.
Start your list today of why it is important for you to be a healthy person. When those goals are important enough, they will override any of your past excuses.
Your three action steps for a successful fitness plan:
Gwen Pettit is a life coach who helps people feel good about the changes they make to improve health and fitness one step at a time.
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Comments
Gwen, it is really interesting timing that you wrote and posted this when you did (Thanksgiving weekend) -- clearly this is a time when people are thinking about such topics so thank you for providing something at a time when it's on people's minds. But I was going to be seeing more patients related to guiding them in the 'occupation of health care management', both locally and via technologies such as phone, video conferencing, email, and was getting ready to look at what was on Lumigrate related to resources to direct people to and what was needing to be created. I like the way you break things down to very straightforward components which make it easy to 'wrap around', and I hope this is helping people who find your work here on Lumigrate.
Paula King is a PhD Psychologist here in Grand Junction who provided the wonderful video 'Strategies for Lasting Change', which is offered on Lumigrate.com for $20. Today is Cyber Monday and I've announced over on the piece that Yenta wrote yesterday (you two were prolific yesterday!), that if people will message to me at the Contact Us tab on Lumigrate, I'll provide a complimentary coupon for them to watch a normally $20 video for FREE if they would download and watch one of the two always $0.00 videos on Lumigrate.com and simply put a comment in our videos feedback forum (as it encourages others to take the time to download and watch our videos -- the reality is, it takes a commitment from people to carve out the time on their schedule to watch or listen to something for 20 minutes or an hour. It's one more thing on the 'to do' list, and there are a lot of other things people can now listen to and watch these days, we're fragmented and the pool of information is getting diluted, so it really, really helps when someone on Lumigrate writes about the videos so that they might encourage others to do so.
Again, anyone who is interested in this offer can, through the Holiday season of 2010, Contact Us and write a message about it and I'll follow up. So for those who read your piece, they might want that free video to be Strategies for Lasting Change, by Paula King! A link to the videos area, where y'all can see the videos (click on them to watch a snippet), is: http://www.lumigrate.com/catalog/seminars
It's very rewarding to see the process of the people who are taking the time to come to Lumigrate.com and make it what it is. Thank you, Gwen (and everyone, particularly readers/watchers/listeners, aka 'followers')
~~ MArdy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [6] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
Paula King also wrote a nice piece here in the forums area this summer or fall, and here's a link to it as well, it basically covers in readable form one portion of what is included in the video "Strategies for Lasting Change"
www.lumigrate.com/forum/trying-time-making-weight-loss-or-any-change-keeps [11]
I hope that encourages people who are looking at why they might not be 'hopping onto the bandwagon' ideas of why, and then some really in-depth ideas of what you can do with it. The video is like having an hour-long session with a performance coach, in my opinion -- and incredible value at $20 but FREE right now! (And Gwen, naturally, I'd like for you to watch it as well, though since you're right here in Grand Junction you can just get together live with me and watch it on DVD sometime perhaps!) ~~ Mardy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [6] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!