I understand better than most how difficult this lifestyle can be, and how much it can test your limits. Whether you have a family with children and a spouse who seem to almost fight agents you when it comes to working out, training for a competition, and/or eating clean, or you are fighting agents your own self to become a better, healthier, stronger, faster version of yourself. For what ever reason you cannot seem to keep it together for long periods of time. Something takes your focus away from your goals, and diminishes your motivation to achieve what you really want. Before you know it, one day turns into a week, and a week turns into a month and so on and so forth. Your excuses become your new focus, and you feel resentful to the entire process. The question is how do we stop this cycle from happening? How do we keep that fire inside of us, where nothing, and no one can do or say anything to make us lose our focus?
First and foremost, we need to learn how to forgive ourselves when we have a bad day, and make a unhealthy choice. The sooner you can accept what you did, and forgive your actions, the sooner you can get back on track. When we continue to beat ourselves up over and over it's only inevitable that we will sabotage the entire day or week, instead of just that short moment when we lost focus. You have to shake it off, and stop punishing yourself. YOU have the power to change the outcome of your day, NO ONE else has that power.
Change your attitude. This lifestyle isn't suppose to be a punishment restricting you from everything you love, it's a gift to keep you around longer to enjoy everything you love! Don't tell yourself "I can't eat that" instead you should be thinking " I CAN eat that, but I don't want it"
Your attitude will absolutely determine your outcome in what ever you do, there is no going around that.
Find someone who is on your side, who can motivate you, empower you, and hold you accountable. It's makes all the difference in the world to have someone simply ask you to see your food log for the day. Or care to hear how your training is going, and if you made a personal record! This is one of the many reason I love CrossFit as much as I do, we have an entire community cheering each other on, supporting one another, and helping without judgement to reach our goals. We want nothing more than for the person standing next to us to succeed!
If you can relate to these challenges in any way, I hope you can take something away from this and use it to help you along the way. If you have fallen off track, change your attitude and get back on again!! If you are going strong, keep it up! No one ever regrets being healthy! :)
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