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3 Foolproof Ways to Sabotage Your Health and Fitness Goals
Chances are high you’re familiar with — and guilty of — each of these blunders, but that’s okay. You can learn from them.
1. Unreal Expectations
So, you want to: Lose 60 pounds? Become vegan? Finish 3 Marathons in 6 months? Go you! Those are some admirable and ambitious goals.
They’re also pretty doable, and will no doubt take some time. The problem lies in the “take some time” part. Sometimes it’s difficult to practice patience when your goals are so BIG!
What if, after a month, you: Weigh yourself and see you’ve only lost five pounds? Couldn’t resist that cake at your mom’s birthday celebration? Haven’t ran farther than two miles without stopping to walk? You’d probably feel pretty discouraged, yeah?
Well, what if you felt proud? What if you lost a whole five pounds, ate only one slice of cake, built up enough endurance to go two miles without giving up?
Do you see where I’m going with this?
Because your goal is so big, it’s easier to see each of these as a defeat rather than a victory. You can avoid this feeling of defeat by breaking your big goal into several small goals. For example:
· You weigh 200 pounds and want to weigh 160 pounds. Set goal weights of 185…
