One of my brilliant girls on PNP posted this in our forums today and I HAD TO SHARE!
I had a good chuckle with a co-worker of mine that I've known for years, and we've done Weight Watchers on and off together, walked at lunch together, etc.
She is engaged to a personal trainer and is currently trying to lose some weight before her wedding at the end of the year. Anyhow, we always get together to talk about our fitness and diets and she knew I was starting the Beachbody Home Body Pump program. Anyhow, I told her yesterday that I stepped on the scale and nothing had changed, and I was like "what the heck?"
Then I laughed because, you know, I only started the program THIS WEEK! We both laughed because, like me, she lacks patience when it comes to seeing progress when we start something and we both know how ridiculous it is to look for results just a few days after STARTING a program! I told her that I KNOW BETTER than to step on the scale just a few days after starting but I do it anyway.
That got me thinking about all the things that I "know better than" to do, but I do them anyway. So I thought I'd write them out here. Maybe I should work on stopping these behaviors, since they do NOTHING to help me!
I know better than to...
- step on the scale after just a few days of starting a program and expect to see results, but I do it anyway.
- step on the scale after a bad food day/weekend, but I do it anyway
- do a workout when my body is screaming that it needs to rest, but I do it anyway
- go on a binge after making one bad food choice, thinking that I just screwed up my plan so I'll just give in and start over tomorrow allowing myself to eat junk the rest of the night, but I do it anyway
- push myself to continue doing something that doesn't allow an injury to heal or makes it worse, but I do it anyway
- look at myself naked and only focus on the flaws, and bad talk myself, but I do it anyway
- go swimsuit or jeans shopping and think that I will end up in as good of a mood as I left in, but I do it anyway
- to look for easy ways to lose weight, but I do it anyway
- think that I can eat foods I don't really like and make it a "lifestyle", but I do it anyway
- do a half-as*ed workout when I know I should be giving it everything I've got, but I do it anyway
I gotta wonder why I continue to do these things, when I KNOW BETTER. Is it sabotaging myself? Is it to purposefully make myself feel bad so that I have an excuse to continue bad behaviors or choices? I'm not really sure. But, I think I'm going to make a more conscious effort to stop doing these things that I know better than to do.
I just thought this was like all of us. Who hasn't done all or most of these things? I still do them!
If you ask me we get into the habit of these behaviors and we do them anyway because we don't do the opposite...EVEN WHEN WE DON'T WANT TO. Many times we have to do the opposite and remind ourselves why we are allowing ourselves some love. At first it sounds "stupid" and then eventually it becomes easier, life is easier, and we wonder why we didn't act like this the whole time.
