I started my body reinvention in March 2009. I wasn't fat; I had a slight rise in my tummy, but I didn't mind it because I could still fit into my jeans, even if I had a muffin top. I accompanied my girlfriend one day to her gym and she told me that she had been working out for 5 years. I thought of my work out pattern. It looked more like checkers, 3 months here or there whenever the fat panic set in. I admired her commitment and so it inspired me to create a fitness goal. I thought how amazing it would be to say after 2 or more years that I had been going to the gym every week.
I decided to commit to 4 times per week. I set up my calendar to brainwash my mind believing that, if I read my fitness 'commitment statement' everyday, that somehow subliminal messaging would cause me to 'automatically' fulfill my weekly gym requirement. I made it through the first week. I marked every milestone. After a month, I would celebrate, knowing I was consistent for a whole month. After 6 months I knew 6 years of consistency was just as attainable. The only weird thing about it is that, if I go to the gym for 90 days, there is only one day out of the 90 that I truly want to go. All the other 89 days I had to talk myself into it and even when I am there, I am tempted to leave after 20 minutes. So I made sure to commit to a minimum of 60 minutes for each session.Here are the exercise tips for the bare bones dieter. By the way, I do not support being fatigued and drowsy from not eating nutritionally this just means that sometimes when you are mapping out a new diet plan, you encounter these side effects when trying to figure out what works such as caloric needs or exercise frequency. Dieting is all about tweaking your lifestyle to make it livable while you achieve your goal weight.
EXERCISE TIPS
1. Forget the treadmill, the stepmill is more effective especially for 1 hour of exercise.
2. Eat before you go to the gym, you will have more energy to power through. Working out when you are on a 1200 calorie diet is hard, make sure you have some right before that workout session.
3. Don't judge your progress by the scale, judge your progress by the amount of time that passes. Focus on what you will look like after blocks of time, for example after 3 months of consistency with plan.
4. Prepare for your workout with books and movies. Set a time each week for workout entertainment prep. This means using one day out of the week to select books and download movies onto iPod to use in the gym. My favorite gym entertainment is Bride Wars. This is very helpful for me.
5. Set attainable fitness goals.
6. If dress is important to you, use it, buy the hottest gym clothes.
7. Remember that what you are building is not a gym membership, you are building commitment. Therefore even when its summer and you are tempted to substitute other activities such as biking for the gym workout, don't. Go to the gym at least 3 times a week for 30 minutes each session. The reason for this is that the gym is available spring, fall and winter. If you drop it in summer you typically wont pick it back up until spring when the 'fat panic' sets in after the 'pig out' holidays.
8. There is freedom in commitment contrary to what people believe. Once you are committed you don't think about it anymore, it becomes a routine.
I decided to commit to 4 times per week. I set up my calendar to brainwash my mind believing that, if I read my fitness 'commitment statement' everyday, that somehow subliminal messaging would cause me to 'automatically' fulfill my weekly gym requirement. I made it through the first week. I marked every milestone. After a month, I would celebrate, knowing I was consistent for a whole month. After 6 months I knew 6 years of consistency was just as attainable. The only weird thing about it is that, if I go to the gym for 90 days, there is only one day out of the 90 that I truly want to go. All the other 89 days I had to talk myself into it and even when I am there, I am tempted to leave after 20 minutes. So I made sure to commit to a minimum of 60 minutes for each session.Here are the exercise tips for the bare bones dieter. By the way, I do not support being fatigued and drowsy from not eating nutritionally this just means that sometimes when you are mapping out a new diet plan, you encounter these side effects when trying to figure out what works such as caloric needs or exercise frequency. Dieting is all about tweaking your lifestyle to make it livable while you achieve your goal weight.
EXERCISE TIPS
1. Forget the treadmill, the stepmill is more effective especially for 1 hour of exercise.
2. Eat before you go to the gym, you will have more energy to power through. Working out when you are on a 1200 calorie diet is hard, make sure you have some right before that workout session.
3. Don't judge your progress by the scale, judge your progress by the amount of time that passes. Focus on what you will look like after blocks of time, for example after 3 months of consistency with plan.
4. Prepare for your workout with books and movies. Set a time each week for workout entertainment prep. This means using one day out of the week to select books and download movies onto iPod to use in the gym. My favorite gym entertainment is Bride Wars. This is very helpful for me.
5. Set attainable fitness goals.
6. If dress is important to you, use it, buy the hottest gym clothes.
7. Remember that what you are building is not a gym membership, you are building commitment. Therefore even when its summer and you are tempted to substitute other activities such as biking for the gym workout, don't. Go to the gym at least 3 times a week for 30 minutes each session. The reason for this is that the gym is available spring, fall and winter. If you drop it in summer you typically wont pick it back up until spring when the 'fat panic' sets in after the 'pig out' holidays.
8. There is freedom in commitment contrary to what people believe. Once you are committed you don't think about it anymore, it becomes a routine.