Truth: One bad meal won’t make you fat.
Equally True: One “healthy” meal or good workout won’t make you lean.
Ultimate truth: Time passes the same for us all no matter what we do. And the passing of time will multiply the choices you make day in and day out. There is no way around it.
Here’s how it all adds up: if you keep eating crappy food day in and day out time WILL multiply your efforts and you’ll end up wearing all that food on your body, as in the wiggle, jiggle and BULGE.
BUT, if you keep eating nutrient dense superhero type foods like kale, spinach, organic eggs, chia seeds and Greek yogurt and consistently perform high-intensity challenging workouts like sprints, jump rope intervals and lifting heavy weights then time will multiply THOSE efforts as well and you’re body will burn off the collection of wiggle, jiggle and bulge you’ve accumulated and reveal the lean beast that you are.
Look around you; you’ll see examples of people who have made a habit of both choices.
Now look down…you’ll see the choices YOU have been making on the regular as well.
I don’t say that to put you down. Maybe you look down and see the choices you’ve been making are slowly turning you into one sexy beast. In that case rock on.
But maybe you look down and you see the skipped workouts, the nibble of cookies or chips here and there……you know.
In fact EVERY choice you made/make is putting a hash mark in one column or the other.
Here’s where it gets sticky…..another truth:
Your “bad” choices show up a lot faster than your healthy ones!
Ughh…so annoying! It takes 2 weeks to lose 3lbs but one wild weekend to pack it on!
It can be discouraging to be making the “right” choices everyday only to have what appears to be slow returns on your efforts.
But here is where time is your friend: As long as you keep doing what you should be doing “Time” will go to work like a power-tie wearing investor on wall-street and not
only multiply, but compound your efforts!
Take that 3lbs and repeat it 5X’s now we’ve got 15lbs down. That’s a smaller pair of pants, cuter skirts, baby-doll tops. A bikini –no cover-up!
“Yeah but X’s 5 is 2.5 months! I need it faster than that!”
True, it IS 2.5 months. But that 2.5 months is going to pass in any case and you can either be 15lbs lighter when it passes or still turning your nose up at losing 1.5 a week.
So try this: only focus on the day at hand. Don’t allow your mind to dwell on the enormity of your goal.
Don’t worry about how long it’s going to take to get there.
The time will pass anyway no matter what.
So each day only focus on doing what you know you need to be doing TODAY.
Then wake up and do it again the next day and the next.
Before you know it, people are going to be stopping you and saying “gurl what have you been doing with yourself?! You look gooooood”.