Keeping it new

I previously wrote a post about the importance of continually changing your weight loss methods - trying new things discarding things that don’t work. But what about when the things you’re doing would be working IF you were actually doing them? What if you’re just going off the rails because you’re bored?

Since I started doing my 100 day challenge, I’ve realised that this is exactly what had happened to me - making meal plans, checking them off, doing the same workouts, week in and week out, I just got bored, and more importantly, I got overconfident. No wonder I was on a plateau! My old snacking behaviours were creeping back in because I just thought the routine would keep going on regardless of little slips.

Doing the 100 day challenge has really freshened things up for me, given me something else to focus on. So I’ve started look for other ways to keep my healthy lifestyle new and interesting. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far:

• Set yourself a challenge - 30 days without eating after dinner, or a week of blogging or 30 days without junk food, make one up that will change the behaviour you are slipping up in
• Try a new recipe - try one every week
• Make a new recipe file, decorate it and make it pretty
• Make up a new diet file, make sure there’s a section for motivational sayings!
• Check out some other people’s blogs and try their weighloss tips
• Push your workout one step further, or change it completely
• Do some research, read a new weight loss book.

Ultimatly, we all need to realise that the changes we are making are permanent, and if it’s boring, that’s just tough. But anything that can make it more interesting along the way before it gets automatic, has got to help!