Routine = Consistency which then ends up with successful results!

Well that’s my observation of this all, this weight loss journey and I’m finding that I do need to have routine. Think about your daily life; you get up every day, your morning routine is basically consistent - brush your teeth, take a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast (well at least you should be doing such), maybe you read the paper or watch the news, do a load of laundry, answer emails, whatever, it is your routine, it is what you have adapted to on a daily routine basis.

 So how did you develop this routine? You weren’t born doing this routine but you did get to this as a routine and because of your routine and the consistency of your routine you get results; like keeping your teeth, like being clean and smelling good. So then why do we find it so hard to make exercise a routine? One reason is we get complacent, lazy, busy; another reason, we just weren’t brought up doing this as a routine. Yet brushing those teeth, yes we were taught that and yes we were made to get a bath/shower so now it became a routine.

It’s a shame that our past can ruin so much of our future; of course that is if we let it, if we don’t take that control and modify it to suit our needs and desires. Think of your youth, your years as a child and what your routine was like. Sure playing was in there, but did you have parents who exercised? Worked out? Involved you in the same? Did your meals consist of salads and healthy food choices? Was soda and candy and pastries a big part of your growing up? Shame, shame on those parents who led our paths like that, but a bigger shame if we’re now instilling it on our own youth! We have to make the effort, live the example and become the teacher.

So now you need to evaluate your existence on this planet. Do you want to stick around and be able to do this and that, go here and there, live long enough to enjoy that pension, that 401 or that social security that you’ve been working to pay in on most of your life? Do you want to live an active older age of doing instead of just existing or do you want to just be dependent on another because you chose not to make the effort to turn things around now? Then get a routine going to make it work for you and your lifestyle, your fitness level and your health issues. There is always something you can do, a casual walk, water aerobics, HIIT, jogging, biking, kayaking, ect. Start working on better food choices, experiment with new and unusual healthy foods to your diet. Whatever you decide you need to start now, not tomorrow, not next month, but NOW!

Again, slow and steady will win and it won’t overwhelm you. Think of your changes as a big rock and chisel. You wouldn’t take that chisel to the rock to take one big piece out of it, it might crack but if you chisel bit by bit on the rock you can end up with a wonderful sculpture, a masterpiece and that masterpiece is you!