You ate you a donut sitting in the lounge at work (although not swore up and down). You skip the gym to meet friends for happy hour drinks (even though you said you go to five days this week). Now your week of fitness and healthy eating is a wash. Do and beat you doing it, right? How did you know? I've been there too; Heck we probably all been there at some point.
Kristin Neff, PhD Associate Professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, notes how common is that punish us mentally so, thinking it will be shame ourselves into better behavior. But be our own girl say is any less productive thing.
In my first attempts to build a healthy lifestyle and a fit body style, I've sacrificed my life for what I thought that it would make me happy. Days became structured around training and planning meals, preparation and the time. It became "all or nothing". A "bad" food, a loss of training and was a failure. I hit me and myself the chain to the treadmill. This attitude towards the gym began to attract attention. Social gatherings were difficult and family and friends questioned my habits.
Dedication became an obsession. Exercising and eating healthy was designed to enrich my life, does not turn in my life.
As the old saying even "too much of a good thing can be bad". Strive to live a healthy life style is one thing, let it control your life is a new type of beast. The moment that your life is controlled by what they eat and how often you can go to the gym then is time to re-evaluate.
It was time to find a medium term. Are you struggling to find the balance? Is it time to find your average? What does that mean?
Fitness and eating healthy should be associated with nothing but positive connotations. Exercise reduces stress and helps to maintain a healthy weight. Eat fruits and vegetables, whole grains and lean protein is the secret to a long life. These are tools to do the things that you enjoy doing even more enjoyable.
Half term is where you can enjoy a piece of birthday cake without worrying that it will make you gain weight. Intermediate is missing a workout without punishing yourself. Average is not obsessed with the number on the scale.
Find the term means does not is implementing the perfect diet plan or making a detailed training Regiment, but finding the right mentality and also have same-compassion. A combination of the two can go a long way in motivating you.
"Same-compassion means to be kind to yourself, especially when you make a mistake," said Neff. "It is that looking after you is one of the best possible motivations for doing what is healthy for you instead of what is harmful to you."
Read more to learn how to be more compassionate with yourself and how to help find its midpoint.
First, has the mentality of a drill sergeant. Stop using terms such as "have you..." "and establishing strict goals. It is setting yourself up to fall short and feel bad for it. Instead encourage, as if it were a friend. Neff says, "motivate yourself to do the right thing, not because you are insufficient, but because you want to be healthier, or job of your dreams, or that your goal is to land." Keep your eyes on the prize, which is to be happy".
Jean Fain, psychotherapist at Harvard Medical School, said, "telling you is to say 'I do not I should have eaten,' things 'I will gain weight' is a trap to pamper yourself." This is because awakens self-criticism emotions negative such as anxiety and self-loathing, and we do our utmost to get rid of them, like digging in the gallon of ice cream in the freezer. The next time that you feel bad for eating a biscuit, it reminds itself-compassion. Instead of saying, "the devil" that could trigger the overeating instead say "his unique ice cream. It is not the end of the world. Next meal that I can go back to making healthy choices."
Life is to be enjoyed, so instead of letting the control of "being healthy" your life, I left it to make your life more satisfying.
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