A way of life

Following on from my previous post, regulating what I eat and drink, training several times a week should be way of life.  Pushing past my comfort zone. It's all a way of life. Not just to lose weight and look good. Not just to look good for summer and get that beach body. Not just for when you’re at home but when you’re on holiday as well. Not just after Christmas but during Christmas. It doesn’t mean you can’t indulge but have some parameters around that. But having said that, it’s all well and good regulating during the holidays but it's what you’re doing outside of the holiday which can’t be forgotten.

I’ve been on holidays where I have regulated but have come back and things went to pot. When I was first losing weight, I realised that there’s no point being so strict and only eating healthily and avoiding the foods that I liked completely because then when he inevitable crash happened I ended up going on a binge, so I might as well have ate the foods that I liked to begin with and just portion controlled. So going on holiday, I don’t have to be so strict, just regulate and choose the things that I really want and have them in a controlled amount, which is often easier said than done. But it's a work in progress.

It's important to remember, this doesn't stop when you hit your goal...it continues for the rest of your life. Constantly trying to tweak and improve your habits, tighten things up and get better and better. Training for me is an opportunity to push the limits. Eventually you get to the point where you'll hit your last personal best. That's only natural especially with the onset of age. That doesn't mean we just have to relax and take it easy. It's about going deeper and asking for more from ourselves. Doesn't have to be every single training session...that would just lead to burn out and injury. It just needs to be consistent. Regulating what we eat, training consistently and pushing ourselves for life.