Making the connection between feeling good through exercise and eating better, is critical to your long term success in following a sound health and fitness plan. If you keep on complaining everything is hard, you make excuses not to exercise, you complain all the time that healthy food is boring, and life is not worth living without all those sauces on top to flavour them, then you are clearly arenot “making the connection”.
Let’s go over the same message once again, your body can take 12 weeks to get used to a more natural way of eating, with no artificial additives, no harmful sauces, no excess sugar, no excess fat that isn’t needed, those are the facts and sometimes you have to face the facts, and stop making the same old lame excuses, if you want to be in shape, or at least get leaner and get more energy in your life, you’re going to have to eat better full stop, drink more water and exercise with purpose, although exercising at all would make a nice little start for some.
This is a big secret for some, but making that connection is vital and numero uno!! There are many ways to get it and enjoying your exercise would be a start, but sometimes that enjoyment doesn’t come until you get a few workouts under your belt, get a routine going and start to eat well, then the feeling better process really begins and things suddenly get “enjoyable” remarkably!
Most of us do things for a reason, to avoid pain and gain pleasure. Contrary to popular belief, exercise and eating well does bring us pleasure if we do it right, and for instance, when we get compliments on how well we are looking and maybe we have lost some weight, there’s nothing better than that feeling. The short-term discomfort of getting yourself into an exercise plan will soon be outweighed by about a thousand different benefits, let’s get out there and make the connection once and for all!
“12 weeks to get used to a more natural way of eating” right enough there Ker.I have felt really crap cos of last week and a bit before,but was great up until then with the fish,pitas,piles of veg,but all the chunk i was eating last week last week made me feel like s**t!!!!!! but cos I’ve been back on the healthy eating this week totally different.Still ain’t had a packet of crisps since the summer 🙂 just gone right off them……
Pitas don’t bloat me out at all and have even heated one up just to snack on plain???? the fruit between meals instead of biscuits to snack on has been great to(only have to cut out the ones with a cup of tea and it’ll be good).Think I’ll have to be a bit more adventurous in the new year with the meals…. 😉
you are doing very well , dont be down on yourself if you blow it now and again, or even a whole week sometimes, you know you are developing the knowledge to achieve something special here, the true sign of a champion is not all the flash talent, its usually the one who keeps going when most would give up, if you can learn one quality with your food and exercise, it must be this one and you’re guaranteed success, you have it in you cyril i know it!
cheers dude 😉