How are You Making Good Choices

Feb 23, 2015

The choices we make seem to determine our outcome, but what if we don't know the choices that we made to get us to where we are? What if we made unconscious choices and gave way to irrational behavior that was brought on by underlying thoughts. Thoughts that were shrouded by events that lead us to the fridge. Perhaps someone said something negative that hit home with the way that you look. Perhaps an event at work occurred causing you to be reprimanded. Maybe a loved one was hurt or killed.

Events in our lives lead us to make choices that we are not aware are bad for us. Some events such as looking in the mirror and feeling fat can trigger you to diet. If you had WLS this could be either good or bad. For myself I have gotten into the habit of eating to sustain energy day to day I neither gain or lose weight and if my indulgence is too excessive I recognize where the excess is and eliminate it. Balance is essential in any diet and to try to binge diet is as bad as binge eating. Diets are not bad but they should be balanced with the needs of our body. Atkins diet, Paleo diet, South beach diet to name a few are all diets I have seen do not work for me or others. The success is short coming because people want to have extreme results without changing their habits.

Habits are a result of what works for us and eventually boredom sets in and routine becomes tedious. The thing is we try to change the wrong routine instead what we need is added tasks or entertainment to break up the monotony of routine, and keep the routines we have. The old adage one more couldn't hurt or lets have this high calorie snack and we can get back on track tomorrow, this can destroy the most critical routines. Instead we need to maintain the routine of eating and discover something new to give us joy. Taking a walk when you don't walk that much, go to a mall just to window shop. find a new hobby or if you are like me write something, anything. The point is to change some part of your routine without changing the routine of your diet that has worked for you.

When I go to the gym after a period of time I feel worn out and tired not because I am working out too much but because my muscles become acclimated to a routine. Therefore I have found that I will not do the same exercises twice within a two week period. It is called muscle confusion when you do this it continuously supplies energy to the muscles when the muscle memory does not know what comes next. My stamina has increased and I look and feel better than I have ever looked in my life. I am fifty years old and most of my friends that I have known since I was thirty years old say I look better now.

Remember there are no silver bullets in life and when we rely on a temporary element to create a permanent situation a routine becomes tedious and the outcome will be that we will give up. You don't want to give up and I don't want to give up so lets not give up together as we break up this routine of giving up...

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