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One thing I've noticed when it comes to health and fitness is how some people are their own worst enemy. Once I had a coworker ask me how I was able to lose so much weight. I told her I did cardio first thing every morning. Her response? "Oh I could never do that." I asked her if she had ever even tried and she said no. The first time someone suggested morning cardio to me, I had the same reaction. "I can't get up earlier. I value my sleep." But one day, I decided to give it a try. Sure it was hard at first. I'd do 10 minutes and then give up. Some days, I wouldn't even get out of bed. But after enough failed attempts, I really got into it. The weight started melting off and, best of all, I was feeling great. Now I do morning cardio not to burn fat, but mainly because it helps wake me up and feel good. I've even found that on the days I do it, I concentrate better at work. But a lot of people have a very self-defeatist attitude. "That sounds too hard," "I don't like that food," "I can't do that," "I just have bad genes," and my personal favorite, "I don't have time for that." I read the average American watches 4 hours of TV a day. So they have time to watch American Idol, but they don't have time to go for 30-minute bike ride? Hmm. Sometimes, I think this is the biggest reason why people fail to lose weight and get in shape. They've already made up their minds that they can't.
Yes, you're right...sometimes you've got to get out of your own way to get fit and enjoy wellness. There's got to be, at some level, sheer grit and determination and desire for health.
Personally, I hate not feeling well and that drives me to the gym, on bikes rides (well, actually, I adore riding my bike out in the fresh air) and to not buy or keep junk food in the house.
It's a kind of re-training, from bad habits to good. The pay-off is keeping the weight down, no medication and few doctor's visits--plus a sense of pride. Not bad.
And then they get this spaced out thinking look like they never thought of it before. Comments like that ("icant") mentally shut down your constructive thinking. I also point out that I did not start my changes full throttle, because I know I personally would not stick to that. Then they seem to believe more than they can do it too. And then they tell me how much more water they drank than pop that day with a grin and 5-10 pounds has creeped away in doing so. I love it when I meet a person that says "i cant". I love to see how the soul energy changes when the see they can.
I have a relative who used to have that attitude until he had a heart attack. Then "I can't" turned in to "I have to." He put an exercise bike in front of the tv and instead of sitting on the couch for a few hours watching tv each night he rode his bike while watching tv. Now he gets his exercise and his tv.
I had an interesting conversation with a man at the gym today. He's there working out because his doctor told him to. His cholesterol was sky-high. So high that his doctor couldn't believe his numbers.
The man was quite portly, maybe 30-40 pounds overweight, maybe more. He's huffing and puffing on the treadmill and tells me, "Yeah, I'm here, but I love a good steak. And I'm gonna eat just what I want...after all, you gotta die sometime..and I'm going to eat what I want. Then he went on and told me how he loved to grill a big ol ribeye steak on his grill.
Hmmm..I thought, what part of the conversation with your doctor did you choose not to hear...?
A number of my friends are like this. One dude is 80 lbs. overweight. He says he looks just as good now as when he was at a normal weight in his late teens.
Couple other dudes just openly admit that they are addicted to fast food but want some sort of quick fix to lose weight.
There's nothing you can do really to help these people. I don't even worry about it quite frankly. My ego's not on the line.
No, I don't worry about it, I just feel sorry for the man...and it does explain our growing obesity and why so many Americans are dying too young and taking a boatload of medication...
You are right. I am certainly my own worst enemy when it comes to exercise. I love the way that I feel afterwards, in general I feel so much better when I work out and am in good shape; however, it's the motivation that is lacking. I am so hard on myself that I give up and forget it!
the fear of most is if i am out of gas now what happens if i keep driving and hard?
what they hear all day long is do more with less.
they are already pushed to the max.
a health plan is not on the table.
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I agree 100%
