We know confidence when we see it. To be a little contemporary, it’s why Mitt Romney and Joe Biden won their respective debates. It wasn’t so much about FACTS as it was about perception, and what people perceived was confidence. Confidence is big. The feeling of winning is big. The feeling of winning creates momentum, and when you’re in a tough scenario, you want to feel like you are winning.
Momentum is huge to your program, it’s important for mine as well. From about March of 2011 to August of 2011, I had huge momentum. I had lost about 27 inches from my frame over-all and around 35 lbs. And then in September and October of that same year I lost it all. I lost the momentum, and I have spent the last year trying to figure out where it went. I finally had to realize that I had to ADMIT I had lost. I had not won, I had been beaten. When I admitted that I had to make additional changes and reconfigure my MENTAL and EMOTIONAL outlook, then I started to see results again. I started to feel like I was winning at this nutrition stuff.
I have said this so many time on this blog, but even I FORGET IT. This battle for our health. This battle to reverse obesity, to find our fitness (stole that phrase) and live the lives we want to live is more about our heads and our hearts than it is about the programs, gym memberships, or personal trainers. You need to continue to keep your head in the game so to speak in order to do this. WINS help. Good Result days help. Those should be celebrated, cherished and discussed.
But what do you do when that poor results day kicks in? Do you come up for excuses for it? Bad week at work? Got sick? Family stress? Look folks I know all of these, because let’s be honest. I’m KING of excuses. But, in the end, I think it is the excuses that actually do the most damage to our mental and emotional approach to our fitness programs.
You celebrate the wins, but you cannot ignore the losses. I think I have realized that. But you also cannot let the less than stellar weeks defeat you. You have to pick apart the tough times so you avoid repeating them the following week. If you do this, then you will start to see those streaks. You’ll see more wins than losses.