You Can't Overcome an Excuse You Don't Realize You Use EVERY Day...

Dear Monday, thanks for having the word "mon" in you. That's french for "mine." In case you weren't aware, Monday, but it makes me think of you more as "my day," & frankly that sounds like a much more promising way to start the week.

This quote resonated with me BIG time today.   I have been living VERY comfortably in “Excuse City” (with no intentions to EVER leave) especially when it comes to my nutrition.  My workouts have been on point - sometimes I even get it in twice a day. Needless to say I’ve also been VERY frustrated with my results (or lack thereof).  Given those 2 stances happening concurrently it’s not very surprising is it?

I'm unsure if it was the culmination of frustration, the sangria hangover, it being a Monday or what, but today is the day.  I am sick of feeling stuck. 

I'll elaborate a little...

I am a creature of habit in EVERY sense of the word.  I could eat the same thing every day, I THRIVE in routine (is perpetually NEVER having a schedule a routine!? I think yes and it's mine) and I am thrown out of whack when things change.  As in anxiety sneaks in and I usually cave.

One “habit” that has COMPLETELY taken over my life - wine.  EVERY night.

Ugh.

I swear I wake up EVERY morning and say “I am NOT drinking wine tonight” the husband laughs and says “yeah ok” and I get mad that he doesn’t believe me.  As a Mom that’s home all day - some days are easier than others - most days I find myself staring at the clock thinking “GET ME TO DINNER SO I CAN HAVE A GLASS OF WINE ...I DESERVE IT!”

And then I do.  As if I actually deserved it instead of acknowledging the fact I may want it. Here is where the trouble creeps in. Because I said “F It” I’ll now have 2...oh and maybe those Oreos that crept in the house! And out the window goes how amazingly I ate all day, my workout etc.

So what am I getting at here?  It is SO SO SO easy to excuse ourselves into quite the negative routine JUST as easy as it is to establish a HEALTHIER routine.

Having Cullen’s 1st Birthday Party yesterday really opened my eyes to how often I say or hear the phrase “I just had a baby”

  • “I know my jeans don’t fit the way I want them to BUT I just had a baby"

  • “I know I craved Ice Cream every night while pregnant and I should’ve stopped when he was born but I mean I just had a baby”

  • “I know I’m not at my pre-baby weight yet but  I just had a baby”

  • “I know I shouldn’t drink wine tonight but I need to cut myself some slack I just had a baby”

  • "You look GREAT - I mean you just had a baby"

Now let me make this BLATANTLY clear - creating life is damn hard and you do deserve to cut yourself a little slack, enjoy - heck I want you to PRAISE your body for what it just did - but there’s a window for that stage and when that baby you "JUST had" is ONE and says words and walks….I think it’s time to drop the excuses and take some ownership.

Then I started thinking if I struggle with this Mom/Wine/(Insert any Vice here) justification thing - I can't be alone right?! Right?!?!

I am taking my next 21 Day Accountability Group and we’re diving a little deeper than normal...

I’m talking real honest truth about our excuses, our weaknesses and how we finally overcome that little voice in the back of our heads telling us we can’t do it.

The funny thing with this whole Healthy Journey is more times then not people fear the PHYSICAL challenges when in reality it’s the MENTAL challenges that will stop us right in our healthy making tracks.

So officially starting 10/17 I am looking for 10 ladies READY to pot those negative internal voices down, put themselves first and do this WITH me!

If you are IN head here and tell me more about YOU!

“Fitness is 100% mental.  Your body won’t go where your mind doesn’t push it”

XO,

Becky

*Look how excited I am to get started. #winedownforwhat

 

#gettingbacktomeMarch

Hey friends - remember me?

I have been SO bad at this whole blog thing and I blame creating life, the newborn and now the 5 month old insomniac baby :)

All of ^ are excuses BUT when you’re in the thick of it my GOD are they life changing.  Sleep deprivation is NO JOKE.

I unfortunately let the first excuse lead to the second and so on and so on until I had to hit pause on a few things before I completely lost my sanity…

It was in this temporary pause I realized a few things.

  • Even this sleep deprivation will pass so enjoy the baby snuggles while he’s still this small
  • Sometimes unplugging allows you to re-prioritize and set some new goals - or a new plan
  • I have a pretty good life when I stop allowing the daily SMALL hiccups to affect my happiness (there will ALWAYS be laundry, bills, forgotten Pajama days etc…)

First step in my #gettingbacktomeMarch - I’m committing to a new program 100%

You may read that sentence and think “Big Whoop? You workout all the time.”  

Truth is - as an instructor, although I do get a little sweat on, I am more focused on ensuring my students get the best workout they can in class time - I’m walking around correcting form, motivating etc.  

That most DEFINITELY does not count as my own workout.

And in my recent pause I came to the realization that THAT right there is the reason for my funk.  

Exercise and eating healthy is not a vanity choice its a THERAPEUTIC choice for me.  I am literally a HOT MESS EXPRESS when I don’t get my own sweat on.  So given the lack of sleep recently my workout was the first thing to go from the daily To-Do list.  Know what else tends to go when you’re not working out…that whole “healthy eating” thing.  Well thanks to a recent trip to Disney - otherwise known as “Deep Fry Everything Land” that stops NOW.

On March 1st Beachbody released a new program - 22 Minute Hard Corps (new killer program that is ONLY 22 mins a day - Coincidence? I think not) and I, along with some of my team, will be committing to this program for 8 weeks because you know what, it’s been ENTIRELY too long since I felt GOOD.  

 


Lord help me if I can’t find 22 mins to give to myself - want to join me?  Shoot me a note (FB - www.facebook.com/byoufit or email - byoufitinfo@gmail.com) and let’s commit right now to ourselves and keeping each other on track!

I’m doing it for the feeling I’ll have in 8 weeks...