Stronger, Faster, Unstoppable Inside and Out
Let me ask you a serious question:
How is your nutrition and training going?
Are you making headway on your goals or do you feel stuck in a rut?
Do you feel like you’re on a hamster wheel?
Does every Monday feel like a re-set?
Don’t feel bad. You’re not alone.
Let me give you some action steps to jump start your week:
Ever heard someone telling the story of how a pill, natural remedy or routine relieved their pain or healed an ailment?
Someone will usually say “that’s a placebo, it’s all in your head” but they say it like it’s a bad thing.
What if you chose to look at it differently?
Think about it: if something can make you have such a strong mental connection to your body that it creates a physical or emotional change for the better, shouldn’t you embrace it?
It’s also because our minds are so powerful, that this same “placebo effect” comes from the things we say to ourselves about ourselves even when it comes to reaching our fitness and fat loss goals.
Our minds can help or hinder our success.
When we say things to ourselves or others, even if a joking way, that belittle our efforts or hint at impending failure, we are in fact creating our own outcome.
Things like: [Read more…] about The Placebo Effect On Your Results
Or is it?
Maybe 6 or 8 weeks ago you had every intention of focusing a little harder and getting into tip top shape for a vacation, a photo shoot (#fierceforphotos) or other big event coming up this summer but you didn’t quite seem to pull your life as together as you had hoped.
Now you have just 14-30 days left and you’re feeling like it’s a “waste of time” to try because you aren’t going to reach those BIG original goals.
It’s sad really. The fact that people often quit because they are disappointed that they will not be able to achieve what they COULD have, instead of focusing on what they can still do.
Yeah, you’ll be doing this for the rest of your life…. this whole working out and eating clean thing.
One way or the other it’s happening.
Think about it:
You’re either totally hooked on living your best life. You’re addicted to the push and the sweat and hard work that comes along with training consistently. You love how whole, real foods makes you feel. You can’t imagine NOT living the fit lifestyle.
Or perhaps eating clean and working out aren’t your most favorite (whaaat?) but you know that to keep at a reasonable body composition (how much fat vs how much muscle) and general health, you need to keep some things in check.
Lastly, and I hope this doesn’t happen, perhaps you’ve neglected your self-care for too long and now you are under doctors’ orders to make changes to the way you move and eat to preserve your life.
So see, no matter how you slice it, we’re all in this for life.
With that said, unless you’re a fitness model, figure competitor or professional sports athlete, you need to figure out a way to make your eating and movement doable for life.
