Episode 5 Tips to restart your New Year's Resolution

Today’s episode I share 6 tips from Myfitnesspal to reinvigorate you and your New Year’s Eve resolution. I discuss the frustration that comes up and how to get through those rough spots. It includes the idea of reevaluating your goals’, motivations, and needs. I share ways to change things up like your work out  routine and diet. As well as the idea of getting expert help.

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Hi I'm Thomas welcome to the parachute advice. My life has taken a lot of twists and turns and on this podcast I will dive into those. The goal is to help everyone listening learn from my experiences and hopefully avoid some of the mistakes I've made hi welcome to today's episode of the parachute advice podcast I'm your host Thomas hi welcome to today's episode. So here we are two months into the year and everyone is already fading for their New Year's resolutions. I know that for me personally it's always easy to get off to a quick start that first month or two of the year you're just so excited to have that new lifestyle and continue your journey, or start a new Journey but then March hits and the enjoyment Fades at times it becomes monotonous tedious it's just a pain do I really want to go to the gym after work today do I really want to go home and cook that healthy meal. I struggle with this and I know you're struggling with this for some of you you power through, obviously I did that's how I was so successful but I'm not going to lie this struggle is real and I still have it every day even if I make it through the March or April time frame. Maybe it's June or July you're just frustrated it's a lot of work to change your lifestyle so today, I thought I'd share some quick tips that I came across on the internet from an article on the MyFitnessPal blog I think these tips are fantastic while they say, there are way to make your New Year's resolution last I think they're even a way to help re-spark that interest in a New Year's resolution first off maybe it's time to re-evaluate your goals. We're Gauls too optimistic or too grandiose maybe instead of saying you need to lose 50 pounds or 100 pounds, maybe you just say to yourself I'm going to eat healthier or I'm going to work out three times a week and not focus on losing weight or maybe instead of saying you're going to lose 50 pounds re-evaluate 25 pounds, I always use the line with people I talk to about this it's like the old adage goes how do you eat an elephant, obviously we don't need elephants but if you were going to eat an elephant how would you eat an elephant simple, one bite at a time if you thought about eating the whole elephant it would be overwhelming same thing with some of our goals like I've said in earlier episodes and I've said for the last year, I never plan to lose 200 pounds the thought of doing that was far too overwhelming. So I set simple goals goals that I thought were obtainable and then as I got close I adjust it all right next maybe it's time to revisit your why. Why are you doing this I can tell you right now, that a lot of things you think are going to change by a healthy lifestyle aren't going to change you're not going to have more friends you're not going to meet more people. Honestly you might even have less friends, you might have less free time because you're spending it in the gym or doing healthy things or you're changing your lifestyle so much that you need to find new groups of people to hang out with. Whatever your why is maybe it's time to revisit it though think about it and really make sure that you have the right why because that is key to your goals like I've said maybe you just want to feel healthier well guess what, losing weight isn't the only thing to feeling healthier working out could make you feel healthier and you may not lose weight, or losing weight and not working out might make you feel healthier or maybe just eating better or limiting your alcohol consumption. All of these things are different wise or different goals that you can look at. Have you really hit a wall but you still want to do this maybe it's time to get the help of an expert whether it's finding a counselor for dietary needs or a trainer at the gym. Someone who can help you on this journey maybe give you a plan there's a ton of online coaches and online resources as well maybe, your new why is not I'm going to lose weight or eat healthier your new Y is going to be I'm going to become an expert on how to meal plan I'm going to become an expert on how to build a workout routine I know for me just recently that's been my new Focus I've been working on how to build a proper running routine and a proper weight lifting routine and how to maximize my time in the gym, so it could be like I said enlisting an expert or even becoming an expert is your desire to eat healthier or lose weight through healthy eating. Maybe it's time to find some recipe inspiration like I've said in many episodes for me that has been a big part of it getting creative in the kitchen within the guidelines of eating healthy low-calorie and low-fat there are plenty of cool things you can do out there with food. So maybe it's time to find some new recipes as inspiration use those as motivation. Decide every week you and your spouse or you yourself or you and your family are going to do something creative in the kitchen that's healthy. Maybe you've never done vegan food and you decide you're going to try vegan food or maybe you're going to try low carb. Whatever it is recipes can help you get creative in the kitchen and being creative in the kitchen could just be that spark that gets you going back on your plan of healthier eating, same thing with workouts don't do the same thing everyday I mean if it works for you great but really we're talking today on this episode about people who have hit that wall already, so maybe it's time to change up your workouts I know for me that's something that's been really important after after doing spin for nearly a year it just became dull to me I so enjoy it I still do it he'll I just hit 500 rides. But I needed to change it up so I added in walking and running and now weight lifting. And I love that in a course of a week depending on my mood I can pick from a multitude of different workouts to do all of which I can be successful at, maybe I just don't feel like lifting today so I come home and I do spend. Or maybe I don't want to do spinner lifting and I'm just going to do a long run or it's one of those days where the thought of spending an hour on the treadmill is just miserable. So you find another activity that Jim just recently I started using the stair stepper at my gym, why because I've just had a new goal for me as I'm going to try to climb the equivalent of the World Trade Center why not so some days when I don't feel like running or I get done with weight lifting and I want to do some cardio it's onto the stair stepper build up a different group of muscles that's the other thing. By mixing it up your building and working on different muscle muscle groups and different types of cardio from anaerobic to aerobic. All of these things are both good for your body your mind and keeping your workouts fresh alright the last thing in the hardest one is you just have to hold yourself accountable. Let's be realistic at the end of the day no one can force you to be successful no one forced me to do what I did. I had to hold myself accountable and I can tell you from experience there is nothing more powerful than when you hold yourself accountable, when other people tell you need to be healthy or eat better or workout it's so easy to ignore that. I think I've used this example in previous episodes if your doctor says you have to eat healthier and you come home from work and you've had a bad day it's easy to have a pint of ice cream or sit down and have a pizza because guess what your doctor is not there to monitor what you eat. But if you're the one holding yourself accountable and you come home and you decide that you're going to throw your plan out the window because you just had a bad day and don't care anymore. The person who is there in the room with you as the person that's holding you accountable and that's yourself and that's a hard pill to swallow I can assure you of that. To this day it blows my mind how there are there are times when all I think about is how amazing. Throwing my diet out the window would be and just going crazy on fast food and sugar and sweets and then I think about the fact that what I be proud of myself tomorrow and I know I would. That's not to say diet breaks aren't a good thing I do them on a fairly regular basis I usually build them around holidays help I'm just coming off of Christmas and New Year's plenty of party when I'm plenty of excessive eating went on it was a nice break to the point that I'm happy to be back on my plan, but at the end of the day I'm holding myself accountable week over week to what I do how I do it and how I'm successful. Sort of close things out I know it's a struggle maybe it was a New Year's resolution maybe you're listening this well after the New Year's and you're just looking to get healthy either way. You're probably struggling at some point in your journey, everyone does I'm over three years into this and I still hit wall some days there are days I just want to give up and walk away from all of this and I wonder what even the point is, but I assure you in the long run it's worth it and you'll be happy with yourself if you keep on this path but find new ways to motivate yourself like we said there's so many different opportunities maybe it's changing up how you work out maybe it's changing up what you cook maybe it's changing up what you eat. Get creative in your life but at the end of the day keep focused on your journey you can do this it's one step after the other. No one starts a marathon and thinks about the Finish Line they think about the first step and the next step and the next step in the next step and then suddenly you're at the end of the race that's what this is this isn't a Sprint it's a marathon. Good luck in your journey and please keep in the back of your head and remember this you can do this thank you for listening please join me again for future episodes. You can contact me at parachute advice podcast at gmail.com again that's all one word parachute advice podcast at gmail.com. You can also follow me on Instagram at parachute advice again thank you for listening and please like And subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Music.