1. Don’t Starve Yourself- I’m speaking mostly to women here but really why do we try this one? We know we can’t keep it up forever. We know when we take that first bite of something yummy we won’t stop eating until it is all gone.
Let’s be sensible. A eating plan should be something we can stick with for a lifetime. Jutta Matta, PhD at Stanford University in CA, said, “A diet plan shouldn’t be done just to fit into a pair of jeans; it’s a healthy habit to manage or ward off chronic illness. You need to think of it as something you can do all your life.”
She also says, “If you believe a diet is complicated, that things are hard to calculate, chances are good you’ll quit the program before reaching your goal.”
My suggestion is to stick to getting in protein, produce, and water every meal and snack. Be creative, call it the PPW plan. Say it with me PPW- protein, produce, water!
2. Don’t Go It Alone- Find a partner, write out your goals and share them with others. Get a support group. Support groups like AA are successful not only for the advice, but the emotional help from others who are going through or have conquered their addiction. Support is vital to reaching your goals quicker. It is easy to cheat on your eating plan, or skip your training session if no one knows about your doing it.
3. Don’t Buy Before You Try- Our two week free tryout to Get Fit NH Bootcamp is for your benefit as much as ours. So many people in January with high enthusiasm sign up for a year at the local gym and buy an online meal plan without testing it out first. Two weeks into the year, they realize they dislike the food choices and the hours the gym offers, don’t match with their schedule. Feeling frustrated, they stop going to the gym and head to their local grocery store to stock up on cookies and donuts.
4. Don’t Make It Complicated- Save your sanity! When thinking of a getting healthy, seek out the experts. Researching the latest fitness gaget or buying a fitness video is not the same as having the hands on benefit of a personal trainer in the room who knows you personally. Although we might do research on the internet if we think we have a problem, we wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) rely on the information there to treat and cure us, we visit our personal physician. The same is true for fitness, although magazines can list out exercises to ‘trim the tummy’, they can’t correct form or help you know what exercises are right for you.
5. Don’t Quit- Our motto is Make It Happen. We strive to instill this in our training sessions because it affects our mental and physical state. There will be days when life gets in the way and fitting it all in becomes hard. We have to fight through it. As a mom I can describe it like this: you walk into your house exhausted. Its trashed. You have company coming and you only want to go to bed. What do you do? You can grumble and complain, yell and scream, cry and pout; but in the end you pick yourself up and do what it takes to make it happen. The cleaning might not be the best cleaning you’ve ever done and dinner for company might include easy to prepare dishes but in the end you do what it takes. You work through it all. You make it happen.
Yes, there will be days when it is more a mental workout than physical. Guess what? By overcoming the mental the physical gets done. It’s a double win, since the physical gets done the mental side gets a prize, a boost, a high five of sorts.
The flip side is true as well. When the mental side looses and the physical side loses too. They bring each other down one more notch. Its like they are scolding each other and they both walk away pouting.
Dig down deep and Make it Happen!
The coaches at Get Fit NH Bootcamp are trained to help you. We strive to help each person each day. Our program is unique. You can not buy it anywhere else. It delights us to help you reach your health and fitness goals. Together lets make 2011 your year for a better healthier you.
To your best health,
Coach Nancy
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