Balance is key to many aspects of life. You need it for stronger lifts, a good core, and a happy family.
Often my clients have a lack of balance in many areas of life.
- They eat like a champ - hate exercise.
- They exercise all the time - binge at night or BLT the day away without journaling it all.
- Run every day - lift rarely.
- Get nuts with weights - forget cardio is key to fatloss.
It's important for us all to remember that the more balance you strike in life the better your life will be. The average person looking to lose weight doesn't need workouts over an hour a day...and they don't need to eat just 1000 calories either. The best way to lose weight is to stay focused on what's important: finding a lifestyle of fitness and eating that allows you to find the process of losing weight easy.
Say what Corinne? Losing weight isn't easy. It CAN be if you do it the right way. The right way means staying away from making it complicated.
Details - Yep, The Devil is In the Details
Let's say you exercise hard but never seem to lose weight. You feel like you are doing the right things and constantly frustrated the scale or your clothes don't really change.
What's missing? DETAILS. Feeling like you are doing the right things means you are doing the right things MOST OF THE TIME but not enough. If so, you would GET RESULTS.
Rather than trying to find a new workout, a few more minutes to do cardio, or look for a better way to calculate your resting metabolic rate...try honestly doing these things:
1. Measure your foods - ALL of them.
2. Write down what you eat - even the licks off the spoon of your kids beenie weenies.
3. Record your workouts - the weights. Make sure you are increasing your weights every few weeks or do something new. You don't need a new workout if you can lift more. You just need to make sure you are pushing yourself.
Big Picture
Some of us get so caught up in the details we miss the big picture. You read everything you can about losing weight, the best foods, the best workouts, and what supplements do magic. Next thing you know you are so consumed in trying to find the perfect plan that you are switching plans left and right and forgetting the goal is simple: move, eat better, keep out of junk. Your weight stalls, you stress out, and then read more STUFF about the next best thing while eating away your misery.
Balance
We all need to realize it doesn't take 40 spreadsheets to do this. It also doesn't mean you just go and do whatever strikes your fancy each day. You need a basic plan, you need to start changing some of your worst food habits, and you need to create a weekly plan of when you will do what and what you will eat. It doesn't need to be fancy, it doesn't need to be perfect, but it needs enough thought to be implemented. It needs balance with your lifestyle.
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