Staying consistent.....

As you may know I am doing Insanity Max30.  It's a 5 day per week program that I am doing at home.  I have been doing the workouts Mon-Friday following the calender that is provided.

Obviously you don't HAVE to do Monday-Friday.  Any consecutive 5 days in the week will work just fine.  But what happens when Christmas falls on a Thursday??? 

I had good intentions to workout Christmas morning.  It's only 30 minutes and can be done at home.  I thought I would be able to sneak away while the kids were playing with their gifts from Santa.  But of course, toys needed batteries, my son needed assistance with his new origami set and the homemade cinnamon rolls weren't going to make themselves.  So I chose time with my family over getting my workout in that morning.  Then we went to my parents house 1 hour away and celebrated Christmas again.

At parents I did not get get in my fruits and veggies and basically binged on carbs, fats and salty proteins.  This left me feeling quite lethargic and the last thing I wanted to do when I we got home at 8PM was workout!  So I did not get my Tabata Power done like my calender told me to. OH NO! I should just give up, start over next week because I messed up right?

WRONG!  Today I woke up and did my Tabata power and tomorrow I will do my Friday Fight and be right back on track for my workouts.  The world won't end because I modified the calender a bit and the fat won't know the difference :)

I am writing about this because for 2 reasons. One is to let you know I am not perfect and would never claim to be. The other reason is I hear from people all the time that they are going to start over or worse yet give up all together when they slip up or miss a workout (or two!).  This is a vicious cycle that hinders success!  It's time to switch your thought process and rather than always starting over just pick up where you left off and KEEP GOING!

So I have my plan for getting back on track for my workouts but what about nutrition?  It was terrible yesterday.  I could run with it and be like "well may as well binge all weekend and start over on Monday"  NO, NO, NO!!! That will I at set me back even further!

Today my focus will be on getting as many fruits, veggies and lean protiens as possible and drinking LOTS of water to help my body get out of it's carb coma.  

I didn't weigh myself this morning because what good would it do?? There would be 2 possibilities
1. I step on the scale and the weight didn't change making me think OK well I guess I'll have some more cookies today.
2. I gained 3 or more pounds I feel terrible about that, get mad at myself, start having negative self talk and start my downward spiral.

I will not step on the scale until next Monday. Because that will give me a more accurate picture of what my weight is than I will get today.

I hope you have found this post helpful and it motivates you to keep going no matter how the last couple days have gone for you!  Health and fitness is a journey with no start or stop.  The goal is to keep making progress. As long as you are doing that you are doing AWESOME!!!