Post-Thanksgiving Goals

So you have eaten the entire turkey will all the stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet corn bread, pies and other delectable deserts. "Crap I should give up, oh well I already screwed it up. I will work on this diet thing later" Sound familiar?

Many times it is easy to lose site with all of the holiday food, friends, family and stress to help encourage bad eating habits. One thing I have done is to make a conscious effort by thinking about how good I feel after jogging or lifting weights. Being able to look into the future at your goals and noticing the small steps is an essential part of your success. I really feel these good habits can and will begin to infect others around you. Remember to eat enough food, exercise at any level for 30 minutes a day or an hour every other day and eat in moderation. That's it folks. Eat less calories then your body requires, put out more effort to solidify successful results.

I am reading a great book by Moshe Feldenkraise called "Awareness through Movement" which may be in reprint thinking about it, but I digress. Moshe teaches about body awesness and how you can greatly change your posture, health and confidence just by the way we hold ourselves. Moshe puts it perfectly from his book and captures how to make changes by becomming aware of progressive changes in the body, especially the small ones.

"Only the experience of change and close attention will convince us to think and direct ourselves differently. Only when this experience of change causes us to discredit and inhibit the accustomed pattern, which appears invalid to us, will we be able to accept this new pattern as habit or second nature.Theoretically, all that is needed is an effort of the mind, but in practice this is insuficient. Our nervous system is so constructed that habits are preserved and seek to perpetuate themselves. It is easier to stop a habit by means of traumatic shock then to change it gradually. This is a functional difficulty and this is why it is important to pay close attention to every improvement and to assimulate it....it is important to know and understand the connection between change and it's causes in order to encourage one to repeat the experience with sufficient accuracy under similar conditions to reinforce its effect and impress improvement deeply on our senses"

Crap that's a mouthful, but I believe this is very important to understand.

Until next post, Namaste

Goals achieved today
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*Morning Run - 2 miles with 3 interval sprints

*Ate breakfast right after run and drank V8 (used to hate this stuff! Love it now..weird)

*Ate a 2.50 Gyro w/o fries for black Friday at Dr. Gyro (This is an accomplishment for me)

*Bought "The Gold Standard" Hydro Whey protein (best natural whey on the market) $30 with gold membership at GNC on black Friday, woot! Trying creatine again (unflavored)

*Ate snacks today

*Weight remained the same since yesterday meaning I survived the super carbs!

*Planning on doing p90x Shoulders and Arm workout along with Yoga-X and then a movie with light popcorn

Total calories projected for the day 1850 after dinner, popcorn and amazing new low carb natural whey protein shake!

Success...yeeeesh!