Have you noticed how much your mind plays a part when you’re looking great, you have lost body fat, your waist looks much tighter, your workout performances are amazingly good and just about everything is going your way.
Then your mind plays tricks on you and can also send you on a pretty vicious downward cycle.
After some upset in your life, a lot of people find support in food, and usually food high in sugar or fat, or both. This is why everyone calls it comfort food and with good reason. You tend to feel really good when your eating your favourite treats, this can be the highlight of the day for some people.
Then perhaps half and hour or an hour later, you may be feeling a huge element of guilt about the food you have just consumed. On one hand you have had a great moment of pleasure, and on the other hand you realise that you are moving further and further away from your goals, and that is pretty depressing.
Not using food as an emotional crutch is the key to not falling down the ever present slippery slope. If we all used huge quantities of food every time we were upset or we were facing a big challenge, most of us would be heavily overweight.
Some of us also miss workouts if we are upset, because “our minds aren’t on it”. I know plenty of other people who use workouts BECAUSE they are upset, and find it an excellent way of getting the stress out of their lives that day, or perhaps dealing with the stress in a far better way perhaps.
Its how we react to emotionally upsetting situations that dictate our eventual progress.
If we go out for a workout every time we have stress, then that has to be a positive.
If we have an abundance of good food in the house all the time, then our options to conume lots of rubbish food is going to be limited.
Using the most productive strategies are vital if you want a smooth path in the future to gettting and staying in shape.
