I have a question for you today… Is your goal to live and look healthy for a DAY or is your goal to live and look healthy for a LIFETIME?
Depending on your answer, you need to start acting like it!
What do I mean? So many times I find the choices people make when attempting to lose weight are short term sacrifices that end up leading to long term results.
- hormonal issues
- sluggish metabolisms
- lack of motivation
- no energy
- thyroid dysfunction
…and so much more are caused by taking stupid short term decisions.
Why would you cut out carbs completely for a short term duration if you plan on eating them again in the future? Don’t you think it would be smarter to let your body learn how to digest and process them normally?
Why would do hours of cardio in the short term to get lean, to only rebound your weight back afterwards because you’ve done it with an absurdly amount of daily caloric expenditure and not a sustainable balance?
Why would you avoid your FAVORITE foods for countless weeks (no matter if it’s pizza, beer or cake) if you know that you’ll end up over eating them again in the future and sabotage all your hard work?
The answer is because we always use HUSTLE to overcompensate for RATIONAL KNOWLEDGE.
And when we don’t have the energy or motivation to “hustle”, you do NOTHING.
It’s 100% or 10% and never in between.
What if you treated your marriage, job, relationships, parents or anything else in your life for that matter with only either 100% commitment or 10% commitment?
The answer is you would be successful at exactly ZERO things in your life.
This is why you still struggle with your relationship to food and this is why you battle to motivate yourself to exercise….
It’s because you’re burning yourself out.
IT’S BECAUSE YOU ARE LIVING TOO MUCH IN THE EXTREMES.
(capitalized for dramatic effect!)
Instead every day you need to focus on getting just 1% better.
Day by day make the healthiest choices and actions that reflect what you want to look and feel like.
And if you don’t know what you want to look and feel like, we might need to start there and start writing down some goals.
Because you might find either…
A.) you aren’t willing to put in the long term work to get the body you want and maintain it
B.) the body you want is not as much effort and as far away if you just continuously keep progressing forward
The little things over the long term add up.
But for some reason your actions don’t reflect it.
My goal for you today is this… do 1 more rep today. That’s it.
1 more rep of anything.
Walk to the mailbox 1x more, squat to the toilet bowl 1x more…whatever!
Then tomorrow you’ll walk the neighbors mailbox, then the next day a little further and further until you find yourself 90 days from now and miles later looking awesome and feeling great 🙂
But it starts with 1 more rep today. Do it.
Committed to your fitness success,
Derek Kuryliw
