The Slimming Pool Weight Loss Blog: Hey, I was Eating That!
Monday, January 05, 2004
New Year - New You!
That's the title of last year's January workshop and here it is another January. The year's keep flying by and what did you accomplish last year? Did you make those little changes you kept talking about, or did you watch time slip away, all the while wishing and hoping something, somehow would change, if only...
If only you'd get up a half hour earlier, think of what could be done? A quick early morning workout perhaps, or time for a real breakfast? I eat breakfast every day, and have long credited that habit with being instrumental in getting me off the nighttime snacking habit and into the eating for health habit. If only I was consistent with my exercise - I was once in very fit shape and the secret? Regular, consistent exercise.
I saw a TV program yesterday about a girl who'd lost a lot of weight and she'd done it by playing a video game. Yup, a video game. The game is called DDR, Dance, Dance, Revolution and it involves a vinyl platform on the floor in front of you with squares, X's and Triangles, and by following the game you move your feet and/or arms in the direction indicated, effectively causing you to dance. She danced away about 90 pounds before she even realized what was happening. Find something you enjoy and do it consistently, and it can work for you too.
If you're like me, you start every January with the same hope and promise. This year it's going to be different - this is going to be the year I (fill in the blank). This year my goal is to adopt a clean diet habit - the same eating style I used to create a healthy frame with 14% body fat many years ago. It wasn't difficult but it took effort - effort to give up some of my less than healthy habits like eating junk food for instance.
I'd like to invite you on my journey. I'm starting a blog to keep a journal of my progress which will enable you to see my techniques using NLP and EFT in action. I will write my thoughts, my failures and successes as I go through the next few weeks, so you can see exactly how I overcome issues such as not wanting to get up earlier, not wanting to take the time to cook, not wanting to do what I say I want to do. I face these same issues as you, every day, but I have methods to overcome them, and I put my methods into action.
Do you take action? Do you have methods that would work, if only (fill in the blank).
If only is something to strike from your vocabulary this year. My resolution? To stop saying "if only" and to start saying, "now that I."
Now that I get up earlier I can get more done.
Now that I eat a clean diet I feel so much better.
Now that I exercise every day...
Get the idea? Join me this year, in finding your way to effectively put into action all your plans. Let's make 2004 a year to remember!
