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Keeping your eye on the prize    

A common trait in people who reach their goals is never taking your focus off what you really want to achieve. If you notice and pay attention to those around you, just look and observe those who make new year’s resolutions. 97% of them fail as previously discussed and there’s a common trait amongst those people. If those people are trying to quit smoking, then that’s hard enough, but if you are trying to quit and you have had a couple of drinks, then someone in the pub offers you a cigarette outside, most people are tempted and will take up the offer, swearing it’s their last! Of course, most people end up regularly smoking within a few days. What they have done is taken away their focus on their ultimate goal, and its easier to fall back into old habits, than it’s to keep their new healthier habit going.

This applies to all bad and good habits. When you’re on a diet, isn’t it harder to stay on track than to accept friend’s invitations to pig out? Excuses for not eating well most of the time include “we had friends around”, “it was Chinese night”, “we were home late so grabbed something easy-from the takeaway”, “you can’t beat the smell of fish and chips”, “I always eat badly when I have a drink”, “I can’t stick to it!! I’m not strong enough”!! etc etc.

If you do go off track, and we ALL DO, at times, then isn’t it healthier to accept the fact that you will have treats from time to time, and as long as you get back on track to eating well the next day, then there’s not much harm done surely? As long as you eat well and healthy at least 80% of the time, then any rubbish won’t stay in your body for long, as your exercise habits and good eating again will get rid of it. It’s when the treats start happening most days that the problems start and the weight starts to come on.

Here’s an old tried and tested way to think of your eating, if you had a puncture in your car and one tyre was out, would you get a shotgun out of your car and shoot the other 3 tyres? Simply because one was out, the other three may as well get trashed too? This is the thinking many have, have a bad Tuesday after initially good intentions, and because of that write the week off, pig out the rest of the week, not exercise and start “next week” and next week never comes? Ever been through that way of thinking? And somehow you blame the programme you were on?!!

Write down your goals and the big thing you want to achieve from the start, and when you get tempted to quit, look at your diary again and what that goal of being in great shape really means?

Successful people never lose sight of their ultimate aims, and always get back on track when life sometimes throws a spanner in the works.

Practice it and most challenges somehow become easier to recover from.

Keri

Do you sometimes sabotage your efforts? It may sound stupid but you may not want to really succeed! There are lots of reasons why i’ve found why individuals do this, but it all comes from being scared and fearful at the end result. You could be scared to fail, scared of disapproval from others, be scared of change, be scared of success and a popular one if the fear of a life of non-stop effort, as it seems a life of exericse is (untrue). The underlying reason also can be is that you are undeserving of happinness and incapable of doing anything worthwhile.

Feeling like this is more popular than you think, and if you tend to think like this, or let someone else put you off course, it tends to be a very difficult challenge to overcome. If you face your challenges, face the things that stop you from achieving and actually “doing” what you need to do for a change, you can really be happy and choose to do so, its about following a programme and be brave and finally “going for it”!

Sometimes its good to write down about your good times/achievements in life, and the reasons why you didn’t do “things” that could have changed your life. You will look fondly on the good times, and often look with ridicule at the reasons why you simply didn’t go for it!

Try it out!

Keri

Just like to thank Brynhyfryd Infant school today, the 6 and 7 year old gave 200% to my introduction to healthy lifestyles, and i feel proud of the fact that i managed to hold their attention for an hour or so!

It’s critical to have a positive early start in fitness, and these kids have shown great promise in the quest to lead an active life. Having done work in schools over the years, i always get a good feeling if even 50% take something in like we did today, and inspire perhaps their parents to get active again, and make those shopping lists a bit more healthy.

Most people don’t know that you can develop fat cells until you reach around 20 years old, so the healthier you are, the less fat cells you develop. That’s why you see overweight people struggle with their weight for the rest of their lives after they get to 20, because they have far more fat cells than the individual who has taken more care of himself.

Obesity in children has never been worse, and there a number of strategies to help combat it. Anyone who knows my work will know i have heavily researched this area, and have a lengthy programme in place to help children. This will be published on here shortly.

Have a good weekend and check in tomorrow if you can!

Keri

“There’s always a way if you’re committed, it’s always darkest before dawn”!