I had an interesting conversation with a friend yesterday. She works with women as a coach and is currently working with a woman who has lost over 120 lbs. In the beginning, it was both overwhelming and difficult to get started. The woman was unmotivated and feeling hopeless. Even though she had been given a plan to help get her started in fitness and healthy eating, she wouldn't follow through with it.
Her: [sigh] I didn't get in the exercise you asked of me.
Coach: Why not?
Her: I don't know, I just didn't feel like doing it.
Coach: Didn't feel like it? Look, you need to take your feelings out of this and just do it. There are lots of things we do everyday that we don't "feel" like doing. It doesn't matter whether you feel like doing it or not. You have to do it.
She's right. We do plenty of things everyday that we don't feel like doing. Who wants to get up early in the morning? Who wants to go to work? Who wants to brush and floss their teeth?? But we do them anyway.
If you took out a sheet of paper and divided it in half, listing on one half the things you felt like doing and on the other, the things you didn't feel like doing, what would it look like? Sadly, I think most of us would have a list where the things you didn't feel like doing far outweighed the things you did. But we still keep doing that which we don't want to do. Why? Because it's life! Because of some future pay-off. Because my future self wants that healthy, lean body. Because she wants a paycheck. And because she wants gleaming teeth. :)
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Excellent thought process ;)
ReplyDeleteAlot of things are true necessities, but, since there is "seemingly" no immediate repercussions ("I'll eat this crap now, and 'diet' later..." type thinking)it's very easy to live in denial. It's often too late when it all comes down at once, and it *will* come down!
We all do this type of talking ourselves into and out of stuff, but I dont' think people still have gotten the message about what they put in their mouths now, is going to rear its head -- ugly head or pretty head :) -- eventually.