We are either moving towards health or away from it.
To continue after we act on the conflict we are often not so urgent. After all you start to feel better because you got started. You tell yourself I am doing something and making progress. Now you may be nowhere close to your original goal2. But, hey you are started in the right direction — even if the situation hasn’t changed much.
Feeling better you don’t feel the emotional connection and you start to take the pressure off yourself. You start to slack off your plan little by little. People in this stage often say to me that they are having a hard time staying on their plan. They don’t realize they are losing motivation because they set it on emotion and not on the outcome.
Because they are feeling better they no longer feel the pressing need to follow up on their plan. They skip meals, they find reasons not to exercise. They stop tracking what is going in their mouth. They return to their original behavior. I hear them say things like “I am too busy now, I just don’t have the time. “ It costs too much to eat well or too little time to exercise. Or my favorite is “I miss this or that too much … I can’t do this any more.” Now don’t get me wrong I am a lover of food as much as the next person. That is the only reason my journey finally worked. If I had tried to maintain my motivation without some serious weight coming off quickly I would have most likely had the same results I had struggled with for over 20 years.
In a short time the weight returns and this is one of the major reasons that so many people yo-yo diet. In this journey with myself and others I have learned that anyone can be successful, but the ying and yang of that is that anyone can fail. The journey has to have a destination and the motivation has to come from reaching that destination no matter what it takes. Sure everyone will experience a detour once in a while. It is what people do with that detour that makes the difference between living longer, healthier, and happier active lives. You see along the way what I have learned there are two choices every moment we make when it comes to health. We are either moving towards wellness or we are moving towards sickness. There is very little middle ground on the journey to health.
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Reading your article explains the cycle of it rather well. Hitting bumps in the journey to lose weight is when “missing” your favorite food seems to come up. I know that when I am on track with the program I do not “miss” my favorite food. Especially if my favorite food is what assisted me in being overweight!