Act Your Way into the Right Way of Thinking

F&%$, S*&%,  yes, up again!!  Another pound! Not exactly proud of my progress thus far in 2013.  As a matter of fact, I’m quite pissed.  I give myself an easy goal of 5lbs a month, and I’m only down 1lb and it’s already 1/26.   It’s all my fault, I know this, but it has to change.  I have to change it.  I started WW in Sept, and I knew I would not have much success towards the end of the year with all that I deal with at year end, but I picked January to be the start of my journey back down to a healthy weight.  I am stumbling bad. 

I started this week off strong with a great 3.5 mile run and then the 20 mile bike, and then I just lost it! During the week, I only made it to the gym once – Thursday morning swim – 1,000 yrds for 30 mins.  I did not plan my meals and ate like crap.  Binged on chocolate not once, but twice this week. Had pizza last night.  I know what I need to do, but how do I motivate myself to keep it up?

One of my favorite fit bloggers is Ben Davis from Ben Does Life.  I just finished his book Do Life.  He mentions a phrase in his book that I never saw on his blog and it goes something like you need to act your way into the right way of thinking.  It’s not wait to you get your mind right and then you’ll be able to act right.  It was actually in reference to his dad who is a recovered drug addict.  His mind was messed up from the addiction to drugs, so he was incapable of a healthy rational thought. He had to do the actions of someone living a healthy drug free life.  In a way, I sometimes feel this with my binge/food addiction.  I can’t act rationally at times, so I sabotage my weight loss.  Well, taking his advice, I need to act my way into the right way of thinking.  It may be easier to change my actions than to change my thinking of food and the desire to binge.   So this week, I am focusing on my actions.  Just like my paddle strokes in my previous post about the kayak.  Every morning, I am going to wake up and say to myself,  how am I going to act today to get myself to my goals?