My Simple Plan To Achieve My Healthy Body Goals

Persistence pays off

I always believed that I was the type of person, that if something wasn’t going how I wanted it, I gave up.

If the weight didn’t come off after eating well for a few days, I would get bored, eat cake and say screw the diet.

If I slept in when I was supposed to get up and exercise, I would decide to stay in bed and then barely move all day, thinking what is the point.

Even sometimes in the past with writing, I would miss it for a day and then think “Oh I’ve blown it now”

Whilst consistency is extremely important, it doesn’t mean that we have to live our lives by ridiculously strict rules, in order to achieve our goals.

For example, going back to dieting. If I put myself on a strict 1200-calorie-a-day diet for a month, I would lose weight, but I would be miserable and this is where I have gone wrong in the past.

It’s the same with exercising, I put myself under so much pressure with it, that any enjoyment I do get out of it is ruined because it is now a mundane chore that I have told myself I can’t take a break from.

At the beginning of the year, I was having a crisis of confidence.

I was churning out lots of writing but didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere with it, I felt like throwing in the towel.