Today is the day I get back on track with my schedule. This way when I get that great new job I'm ready for it. The start of the day has gone well. I got up with a little help from my wife and mother in-law and began to set things in motion. I've had my breakfast, I'm planning lunch and dinner's already wrapped up. I guess that's it then. No, I still need to get off my ass and get more active. Running in and out to a job search group is o.k. but not enough. I have started doing the exercises off the SparkPeople site but I've not been consistent enough.
I have been doing little extras like parking farther away from the building when I go to the group and using the stairs more often. Not all the time though. The group is on the fourth floor and sometimes I don't feel i have the energy to do it. I do always take the stairs down and that's a start. These are all little changes and one at a time but I think that's what's making it so easy this time.
In the past I would be guilty like others of wanting to do everything at once. Last time I saw a nutritionist, joined a gym, hired a personal trainer and went at it full steam ahead. At great expense mind. Six months in found myself cheating on the diet from the nutritionist and looking for answers at the gym with the trainer. Who then discussed my progress with another trainer an both decided i needed to be on protein shakes. So I bought into that also. In the end, six months had passed and I lost 5 pounds and $2800.00. That's $560.00 a pound, net result. I don't know if that's the worst result ever but I challenge anyone to show me one. Now I think you all know why this time I want to do it all "gratis". The information is all out there, you just need to be willing to sift through all of it and find what works for you. So far I'm happy with my choices. They do start out slow but you know what they say; "Slow and steady win the race". And that's what I feel is working for me this time, I'm setting the pace with how I introduce the different elements to the lifestyle change. Their not being dictated to me. Every Trainer, Dietitian, Nutritionist knows what do day to loss weight but do they all know how to effect a proper life style change or do they just push you. The end result being you show progress while working with them but it's not really sustainable. The progress just keeps you working with them and shelling out more cash. When the weight is gone along with the money, so are they. That's when we lose control because we never really had it to begin with. We gave it to them. After all we do live in a society that's looking for results and results now. We really aren't trained enough to look at progress with long term results. Where is the school that teaches us all that philosophy. If trainers, dietitians and nutritionist had this as the core of their programs we would probably more successful and not be prone to relapse so often.
I just stopped to review what I'm writing today and realized it sounds a bit like a rant. Who cares, maybe I'm wrong maybe I'm right. Who really knows. All I know is that I don't believe their is a cookie cutter answer for everyone. And we need to stop looking for answers in the same place all the time. Change it up, try something different until you find what works for you. Don't just give for a period of time and then start the same process over again. You know the definition of insanity, "Doing the same thing over and over again expect a different result!".
Writing down my thoughts in a journal format like this really does help. It helps me express what I'm feeling, gives me an outlet and it keeps me honest with myself. It's a lot easier to fool or lie to yourself when their is no record of it. The writing process works like water flowing, It just moves when your doing it.I think that if I were to write this blob only once a week I would have to much time to forget or convince myself that every day I'm doing good. When probably I'm not. This way my thoughts and actions are in real time and I can work with that. I guess that's it for today.
Have a good one, keep strong and don't let little set backs keep you from your goals.
Thanx,
Looper
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