As a Personal Trainer and nutrition coach it’s my job and my challenge to my clients to make sure they lead healthy lifestyles with lots of exercise, positive mind-sets and healthy foods. Yet more often than not I actually ask my clients to have a couple of rest days or enjoy a treat of something completely unhealthy rather than having to motivate them to do more exercise or find a bit more willpower with food control. One of the hardest mind-sets for me to break in people I work with is to get them to understand they don’t have to tick every box and strive for a perfect day every day. You do not have to tick all the right boxes for health and wellbeing, especially those with weight loss goals, every day. You do not have to get it all right 100% of the time. It’s about making sure each of the boxes at some point get ticked across a relatively regular basis, for the rest of your life. As soon as you can understand this and release the feelings of having to reach perfection on every aspect and factor, the sooner you will fall into a healthier place and your journey with a healthy lifestyle will be easier, happier and more successful. Food, exercise and wellbeing isn’t a ‘criteria’, it’s not a ‘challenge’ you must achieve. It’s not a destination to reach. It’s just one aspect that makes up your life. It’s just part of your continual journey through your life. You just do it. Don’t try and validate it, don’t judge it, don’t critique it, don’t analyse it. Just eat – where possible, healthy foods. Just exercise – regularly but when you feel like it. Promote wellbeing – when you have the time and energy to do so. But by all means, if you slip off your perfect track record occasionally, if you miss a few days of exercise, or overindulge on unnecessary foods for several days, then keep moving along on your journey of life. It is not a call for reproach on your recent ‘failings’. It is not something that you should ever feel guilty or ashamed of. Just keep moving along. One of the biggest things stopping people living a healthy lifestyle is their constant analysis of how well they are doing, if they have done everything right for the day. And if they believe they have but don’t see any dramatic results they get angry, depressed, resentful, or want to give up. Let go of the belief that this is a short term challenge until you reach your goal. Realise that for the rest of your life you just need to make exercise, healthy foods and wellbeing a part of who you are. There is no way that anybody can withstand absolute perfect outcomes every day of their life. The need and obsession within people created by this huge diet-obsessed world we live in is making people feel like a failure, like they aren’t good enough, simply because they can’t seem to get it all right all day, every day. Well, you just aren’t meant to. You aren’t meant to always get it right, just as long as you get some of it right most of the time, then you are doing better than you realise! Love yourself and be proud of the small steps you make regularly toward being healthy! Kerri x
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