If you think about it "lifestyle change", what does it really mean anyway? You can change the batteries in a smoke detector, you can change the light bulb in a lamp, you can change the tires on your car-even change your hair style!!--but how do you change your life? As if you can wake up one day and declare "I change my life". Nope, it doesn't work that way. It does start with a slight desire to change, (the precontemplation stage), it sounds like "I wish" or "if only", "that would be nice" etc. Then after entertaining what feels like wishful thinking and impossible accomplishments you enter the contemplation stage. During the contemplation stage you start to consider the pros's and the con's of change. You give serious thought to setting goals that seemed out of reach in the precontemplation stage. You remain ambivalent throughout this stage, but, when you proceed through, it is where interest coincides with motivation. These 2 variables interest+motivation lead to preparation. Preparation is a series of choices. (and a requirement of making change-) Once preparation has been initiated you are ready for the main ingredient which is ACTION.--
It will always hold true that action speaks louder than words. I can say I want to be healthy, I want to be fit, I want to out run my kids. Without my taking action those words are meaningless. Once the action phase is fully managed and under control you enter the maintenance stage. I'm not there, and I am far from being there, however, I am thankful to be in the ACTION stage.
This past week and a 1/2 allowed me to go out of town for the thanksgiving break. This meant no sessions with Bo and food on the go. I planned for healthy eating and I did get a few miles of run time in. I also drank a lot of calories:( We were pool side with my kids eating from the grill while I ate yogurt and pretzels. At the restaurant my kids ate their favorites I ordered salad. Which would have been great if I didn't chase the salad down with long islands or similar liquids. None the less I thought I did well overall. Even on the actual feast day itself!--I would have stayed within healthy limits (vino included) if only Fireball wasn't involved. We drove for over 12 hours round trip and I drank only water, (a big change from the usual diet coke and mountain dew consumption), and for snacking on I ate carrots and almonds an even bigger change from the road trip required doritos and reese's pieces of my past. I felt changes were made since different ways were had.
Upon our return home I was curious of my number. I did not expect to lose any weight, I was hoping for no gain either. Sadly, I was let down and there was a gain. I had both fear and excitement for my sessions with Bo to resume. I was actually looking forward to his training but I feared his (our) reaction to the scale. I assumed he would want to check, but he didn't, He only asked me what it was, no doubt he knew I was mindful of the number. He didn't seem surprised at all I was still upset! -- I whined about the healthy choices I made yet the end result did not reflect them. While I know if I indulged or bought into the whole 'i'm on vacation' mentality the gain would have been much more than 3 pounds I still felt cheated. I'm blaming it on the alcohol. Well ok, on the choice I made to consume the alcohol! --
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