Regaining your motivation.

Today I had a weigh in at the gym. I hadn’t weighed in last week, but over the two weeks I had lost 1.3kgs. I’m pleased with that. If I could maintain that rate of loss I would be at my goal in no time. About 4-5 months actually.

I’m feeling motivated again. It’s been a while since I’ve felt that real rush of well-being, like I’m firmly on track and have no fears about the path ahead, no concerns about caving in or failing.

I think the reason that I lost that motivation was just a natural swing. Maybe partly because of the holiday season and it’s aftermath, I got out of routine which shook my confidence a bit, as I struggled to get back into it - particularly my early morning gym visits.

I got my motivation back by simply doing the hard slog. Forcing myself to have a couple of good days, stick to my eating, get up at Dark O’ Clock and hit the gym. After a couple of days, I fell back into the routine and that was it. Easy street.

Imagine a current of water flowing towards an island. The edges of the current are turbulent, eddies washing all over the place.  But once you get into the current, it’s a pretty smooth swim out to the island, you just have to make little corrections to stay in the current. If you don’t make those adjustments, a stray eddy can sweep you back out into the ocean, and you’ll have to fight to get back into the current.

It’s definitly worth fighting across those eddies, it only takes a couple of days of routine and pushing yourself to stick to your new healthy habits, before they become easy and then you’re in the current and it’s just an easy swim to paradise!