Finding Motivation & Commitment
My priorities are certainly being tested! I am a few days into my summer nutrition program and I am finding it very difficult. I'm still in a place where I am trying to figure out how I will adjust and acclimate and determine strategies that will make all this more convenient. It is NOT difficult for me for the reasons that pretty much everyone else would be challenged by this! I don't care that much about what I eat. Sure I have cravings and I will have a tough time working through them but that is not the issue here.
I AM SICK OF EATING!!! I am having to eat every three hours. I am eating simple, basic food; all the same stuff all day. A lot of people would be going crazy already. Protein drinks, poached eggs, lettuce, brown rice. Greatly relieved after some experimentation to have found a way to prepare chicken breasts so that I can get it down as they are a staple of this form of super high protein/very low fat strategy for eating.
I have to do this clear until the end of August. I've made the commitment; I'm corresponding with a high-level nutritionist who created the eating plan for me. I've paid for this! I've put myself into a place where I can't back out now. No going back, no refunds. I HAVE TO DO THIS.
I'm hating it and I'm loving it! It's an adjustment. I'll find my way to deal with it. I'll get through it. But I love that I have found a very serious, high-end program to do with a real person who can help me and keep me on track. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want the results that are possible. Everything costs something and if you want it, you have to pay! To extend that metaphor, what I want is pretty expensive. I WILL PAY IT! It's that valuable to me.
Finding a strategy for yourself and maintaining it will make you feel great, physically and psychologically. We all have had that experience of starting something and not sticking with it, you know that makes you feel like a big failure! A lot of people get caught in that shame cycle, nothing they do ever seems to bring any actual change.
I think there is a very tough Catch-22 operating here. GETTING RESULTS will solidify your motivation and commitment BUT you have to work really hard to achieve results and get them going! Sticking it out through that "start up" period is the real challenge. Achieving results can make you want to hold on to them and achieve more but you have to get there first!
I am in a very challenging start up period right now! I don't know how this will work out. It's taking a HUGE effort to give it a good college try! But I have learned that IT IS POSSIBLE to make real changes and even to manipulate my body and my physical state. I won't give up on it. I am working to determine what all the obstacles might be and I will find ways to get past them.
When you try something new and you let it go, you're not giving up on the latest diet or workout program, you're giving up on yourself. Shortchanging yourself. You have to give yourself the best try you can to see what you can realistically accomplish! If you try your best and it doesn't work out, try something else until you find the right solution.
Don't ever give up.
I AM SICK OF EATING!!! I am having to eat every three hours. I am eating simple, basic food; all the same stuff all day. A lot of people would be going crazy already. Protein drinks, poached eggs, lettuce, brown rice. Greatly relieved after some experimentation to have found a way to prepare chicken breasts so that I can get it down as they are a staple of this form of super high protein/very low fat strategy for eating.
I have to do this clear until the end of August. I've made the commitment; I'm corresponding with a high-level nutritionist who created the eating plan for me. I've paid for this! I've put myself into a place where I can't back out now. No going back, no refunds. I HAVE TO DO THIS.
I'm hating it and I'm loving it! It's an adjustment. I'll find my way to deal with it. I'll get through it. But I love that I have found a very serious, high-end program to do with a real person who can help me and keep me on track. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want the results that are possible. Everything costs something and if you want it, you have to pay! To extend that metaphor, what I want is pretty expensive. I WILL PAY IT! It's that valuable to me.
Finding a strategy for yourself and maintaining it will make you feel great, physically and psychologically. We all have had that experience of starting something and not sticking with it, you know that makes you feel like a big failure! A lot of people get caught in that shame cycle, nothing they do ever seems to bring any actual change.
I think there is a very tough Catch-22 operating here. GETTING RESULTS will solidify your motivation and commitment BUT you have to work really hard to achieve results and get them going! Sticking it out through that "start up" period is the real challenge. Achieving results can make you want to hold on to them and achieve more but you have to get there first!
I am in a very challenging start up period right now! I don't know how this will work out. It's taking a HUGE effort to give it a good college try! But I have learned that IT IS POSSIBLE to make real changes and even to manipulate my body and my physical state. I won't give up on it. I am working to determine what all the obstacles might be and I will find ways to get past them.
When you try something new and you let it go, you're not giving up on the latest diet or workout program, you're giving up on yourself. Shortchanging yourself. You have to give yourself the best try you can to see what you can realistically accomplish! If you try your best and it doesn't work out, try something else until you find the right solution.
Don't ever give up.
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