What Are You Waiting For?
On the Phit-N-Phat member site yesterday a client was pretty upset because she realized that the past six months she has made zero progress towards her goals. Granted life has gotten in the way but all in all she is the same as she was the day she joined. She emailed me in tears questioning why she couldn’t just turn on the switch.
After careful consideration I chose to give her a little butt ripping, very little because if you’ve ever seen her avatar it’s too sweet. I would have felt like I was just running around kicking a puppy! Then I told her to reach out to the other girls on the message board. She did and today I want to post some of the sweetest, insprational, and insightful comments straight from the PNP Girls mouths.
But, before I do, to the client who emailed me. You have not wasted six months. Think of all the things you’ve learned since joining my team. You might not be implementing those things right now but we’re going to look at it like this: you’ve been doing your studying for the exam of a lifetime. TODAY is going to be better than yesterday. TOMORROW will be better than today. You do what we all told you to do and let us hold your hand through it, and I promise that you’ll look back on Day One of your new PNP Online Journal and say look how far I’ve come! The only thing that holds you back is you. See you on the site!
Now for some pearls of wisdom from the PNP Girls…
“Chin up!!! Don’t be too hard on yourself. Someone once told me that you have your whole life to get to goal…try to enjoy each day of getting there. That really resonated w/ me…even though I have to work hard to remind myself of it. “
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“1. What keeps you from your eating plan?
2 What keeps you from exercising?
You have a choice of what you put into your mouth. Each time before you take a hershey kiss or extra bite of something, literally, stop and ask yourself. Is this on my plan, does this get me to where I want to go.
Each time you exercise remind yourself of how this is transforming your body both inside and out. Exercising will help you feel empowered and in control. Do your week one exercises that Corinne gave you and each day report to us proudly your progress. We want to know it all.
If you talk with us in your journal daily we will help you through it.”
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“Like you said, it’s so easy to make excuses and let those excuses become the norm convincing you that you can have one cookie it won’t hurt anything I’ll eat better tomorrow, or I’ll just skip this one workout because I’m tired and I’ll make it up tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes… if I don’t commit to the task at hand, make each meal and workout count, own my choices, then I sabotage. It’s starts a downward spiral from which I have a hard time recovering. So, I probably sound like I’m all fired up about this topic, but I know for my own personality I just have to really buckle down and have lots of mental conversations with myself about food and exercise. It’s not easy, it’s a battle each day but with each passing month it gets a bit easier. “
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“You won’t be perfect - thats impossible. But you can give it your best shot! There will always be room for improvement & thats ok! Just say to yourself that you will follow what you were given to the best of your ability & any choices you make - you will own them.”
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“Just take one day at a time. If I think about clean eating and working out for a month it REALLY freaks me out. I just concentrate on ONE day of clean eating and ONE DAY of working out.”
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And, my favorite!
“Let me just say, before PNP every Monday was diet day. I’d gear myself up all weekend long for starting my next fad diet on Monday. I had it all planned out, I’d eat horribly all weekend prepping for it because heck it was my last meal(s) right? My last meals before I got my dream body! Then I’d be all starving myself on Monday, wake up feeling like crud on Tuesday and blow my new fad diet. Of course I couldn’t start back up again once I sabotaged I’d need to wait for another Monday to do that! See the cycle…. I chuckle when I think back about how manic and overwhelmed I was by it all. The concepts at PNP are so straightforward — eat healthy, work your butt off, get Phit!!! Now that’s a plan I can live with FOREVER!”