Why is it so hard to start a healthy lifestyle: Top 5 excuses
Tips Motivation / / December 19, 2019
New and correct promises, as a rule, are given at the beginning of any period. It is always either the first day of the month or the New Year, or Monday. But Monday comes, and we come up with new excuses. It is especially difficult for some reason, are sports and a healthy lifestyle in general. The corporate, the New Year, the Passover, and then running out of money and new shoes is not enough. We'll have to wait until next Monday.
It would have been funny if it were not so sad. Because many are beginning to actually do something only when they discover a double chin or they accidentally catch the eye photography five years ago in a bikini. And you realize that it is now possible to pull a bikini on only one half.
Guest post on zenhabits the five most common excuses that block our path to a bright and healthy happiness.
Matt Phaser, the author of a blog about healthy lifestyles "No Meat Athlete"Shares his thoughts about the five most common excuses that people use most often. And I was with him in this totally in solidarity... except for a few moments.
Justification №1. Before you go on a healthy lifestyle, I need to plan everything
Yes, some do need a clear plan, because they are accustomed to act exclusively on the schedule. And there is nothing wrong with that, because if your schedule is painted on the clock, and diet - on weekdays, you definitely do not miss.
The problem is slightly different. The fact is that such planning is for the most banal procrastination. And all this can be delayed. Until next Monday, if not until the next New Year.
Try to start small - with a simple walk, which can gradually develop into a jog or walk to the nearest gym. Start with something simple and effortless it is always easier. And only then, when you get used to at least these simple rituals, you can start planning something bigger and grander. Not forgetting, of course, continue to perform at least these daily walks.
Justification №2. I'm in such terrible shape. I was even afraid to think about how to get started!
Every beginning is difficult. Especially after a long break. Every day you need to literally force yourself to do at least something in the right direction. And even after walking you feel like aching muscles (and it happens). Since diet is still more difficult.
Do not try to immediately go on a healthy diet and do not place in front of a difficult achievable goals for their physical fitness. Try to start small. Within a week, gradually increase in the diet part of a healthy and regular meals or arrange themselves at least one fasting day a week.
Try to begin to engage charging or take a subscription for one month to the gym, to yoga or dance studio. Try slowly, savoring every opportunity and listening to their feelings. So you are sure to find something you really like.
If you feel that well at all to what the soul is not, then you really just think. This is not the heart whispers to you, and intuition - it's laziness sweet sentences.
Justification №3. I can not cook and I do not have time for this
No one says you have to prepare sophisticated dishes that require special culinary skills and take up a lot of time. There are several dishes that can cook any.
Try at least to start with breakfast - fruit and berry smoothies, a variety of lassi (on the basis of dairy products drinks), fruit salads and classic oatmeal - all of the dishes are prepared quickly, do not require special skills and 90% are obtained tasty (10% - and the sour grapes fruits).
Justification №4. I am afraid that others will laugh at me because I am completely out of shape
Overcoming this fear will help you not only put himself in order, but also to get rid of the inferiority complex. You must be absolutely do not care what you think about the people around them. Especially when you consider that most likely it will be total strangers.
Believe me, they do not care how fast you run or how many times you get to be wrung from the floor. Each focused only on what he is doing. And who is there next to him waving his feet hardly interested. Of course, if you do not touch it these same feet.
The only place where this can happen - this group classes (yoga, aerobics, dance, fitness). And even then only in those where the trainers - men. Only here in the woman wakes up not only the desire to do the right thing and finally lose those extra n kg. To this all added more and the desire to be with the best, and look beautiful. That's when and begin classes in full war paint, T-shirts with the neck to the navel and injury. The same goes for men when the lady appears trenazherke - all at once begin to puff doubly stronger. Result - wounded pride and trauma.
If such a situation makes you feel uncomfortable, start with the lessons at home. And only when you decide that you no longer ashamed to show and to the gym, join group activities or exercises in the gym. Buy a few lessons with an instructor, in the end. He certainly will quickly lead you into shape.
Justification №5. I would like to / la to join the group lessons, but I'm afraid not keep up the pace of the common
Not true! I saw a lot of people who joined the group in the middle and at the end of the year. Nothing bad will happen to them and they gradually hauled to a common level. If this fitness classes, you can always choose a smaller weight. And if you join the yoga class, the instructor will help you as long as you have not built, and do not stop making mistakes.
No one will laugh, because everything from start somewhere (even if not in this group), and remembers how hard it is to be a beginner. Some particularly sympathetic can share their experiences and tell us how and what better to do to catch up with everyone.
How to make yourself start?
Everyone has a limit. I took one look at myself in a bathing suit. And I just decided to resume classes, I ran ran written to the gym! Someone needs a friendly kick, and someone just to get health problems can reflect. In any case, the option "I'm so / Oh, what / Oh, there are so like myself" is just a lazy excuse. Nobody says that you should immediately lose 10 kg, become like dried dried fish and eat only grass.
After all, in fact, exercise and healthy and delicious addition to health gives us more and more - a lot of positive energy, and perhaps new and interesting friends. After training opens a second wind and productivity increases. You feel quite differently. And even if in fact there is nothing apparently has changed, the internal changes are much more significant. And surrounding it feel even faster than you.
If you read all these excuses again and realize how much you are worth this, in fact, children's excuses, once everything starts to seem not so difficult. Try to arrange a week-long experiment. And then you will not want to go back to the old way of life.