17th July 2010 - facebook email

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. There is nothing permanent except change. Unknown.

Hell starts next Friday – yes the dreaded 6 weeks holidays! Don’t use it as an excuse to fall off track, you can still come and get weighed and follow the plan even with children around you, they may even be able to help! Try and use this weekend to plan how you will cope, if you usually get your exercise whilst they’re at school or by walking them to school, think of an alternative, take them swimming, go to the park – you can have huge fun on those swings, roundabout, seesaw, be careful of the slide though as you tend to get wedged in at the top ;-)

There is no problem that you can’t find a solution for! Will power only gets you so far, what you need is a strategy, a plan, some tactics on how you can cope with particular situations. For example I know if I’m hungry on a Thursday after my last meeting of the week, willpower is not stopping me from pulling up at the Tesco garage and buying whatever’s on the reduced section, now willpower has no change at that time, he’s just holding the door open for me to walk in. What will stop me is not taking my purse to the meeting in the first place because Tesco don’t do credit! Willpower is now sitting in the passenger seat of my car directing me past the garage!

So use this weekend to think about the things that cause you problems on your weight loss journey and what you could do to make it easy to cope with those problems and I know 6 weeks at summer camp or borstal for the kids sounds like a nice dream idea, but that ain’t gonna happen so think of something else ;-)

Here’s today’s habit changing tip;
Expect help at crucial moments - The Universe is on your side because you’re a part of it. When you come to a point where you have given your all to reach your goal but are running out of steam, trust that something will happen to help you get past the tipping point.

When you feel like you’ve hit a brick wall, use that imagination of yours and

- Dare to imagine what it might feel like to be comfortable in your own body.
- To be in control.
- To stop comparing yourself to others.
- To be good enough!

Imagine what it’ll look like when your current challenges are no longer a problem and you are leading a life that you love.

Albert Einstein said that you cannot change a problem with the same mind that created it!

So try looking at that brick wall with a different mindset, you always have options, you could go round it, over it or bulldoze straight through it! As long as you make it to the other side, how you get there doesn’t matter.

Remember Life Starts NOW!

Are you living yet :-)