Happy New Year!<\/p>\n
It might be January if…QVC is selling treadmills you have to assemble yourself.\u00a0 HSN is selling power shakes, protein shakes, shake weights and 6 week solutions to all your problems.\u00a0 New fitness blogs appear and disappear faster than $2.50 gallons of gas, gym memberships get contracted and sexy new fitness gear flies off the shelves.<\/p>\n
The secret for success in your 2011 resolutions may be more obvious than ever.\u00a0(Resolutions?\u00a0 remember them?\u00a0 they were the things you decided to improve upon in your life?\u00a0 the cool, energizing, money saving, fat-busting, fitness improving list you compiled…wasn’t that just yesterday?)<\/p>\n
Repeat after me:\u00a0 The scale is not my enemy.\u00a0 It is a measuring device.\u00a0 It does not have power over you.\u00a0 It provides information.\u00a0 Sometimes we like the information it offers, many times we do not.\u00a0\u00a0 Do not hate the scale…<\/p>\n
If you can conquer the “one who must not be named”…the DIET industry…you can enjoy success in at least two of your top ten resolutions.\u00a0 The dreaded DIET industry exists to\u00a0\u00a0profit from\u00a0fits of flailing optimism unmitigated by any kind of real planning or clearly defined goal.\u00a0 It’s garbage.<\/p>\n
If it says it works in 3 minutes a day, don’t buy it.\u00a0 If it promises a flatter stomach and comes in a small bottle with cotton stuffed in the top, don’t buy it.\u00a0 If it is pre-packaged, pre-measured and frozen…and you can’t pronounce the first three ingredients, don’t buy it.\u00a0 (Consider this – an apple is food, a protein bar is a product.) \u00a0 Honey, if it sounds too good to be true…you\u00a0 don’t really need me to finish this one, right?<\/p>\n
OK – so you just avoided the hype and rip off of the lean and mean and saved hundreds of dollars and a load of personal pride!\u00a0 Yeah!! Resolutions 2 and 3 in the bag –\u00a0 Financial Freedom and the Improved Self Esteem that comes from being smarter than the rest!<\/p>\n
Becoming a member of the Full Scale Warfare team means telling ourselves the truth.\u00a0\u00a0 We want to be healthier, happier, and most likely we want to\/need to shed some pounds.\u00a0 STEP ONE<\/strong> – Eat less junk.\u00a0 Put down the wine glass\/ beer bottle more often.\u00a0 Eat more delicious real food.\u00a0 Move more.\u00a0 Move harder, faster, longer.\u00a0 And have fun doing it.\u00a0 Today.<\/p>\n Stay away from the pills, gadgets and promises of\u00a0 ten day perfection.\u00a0 That reality is just no fun.\u00a0 And it gets expensive.\u00a0 The toll it takes on our confidence is devastating.\u00a0 And studying the\u00a0 Procrastinator’s Guide to Fitness is probably not the answer, either.\u00a0 If you think about it, every day is a chance to make a big decision, map out a plan or take a step toward becoming someone better than you already are. Waiting around for New Years is just an excuse to procrastinate and then, ultimately, you don\u2019t end up getting s*** done anyway so you finish out another year with lots of ideas and zero execution.<\/p>\n I’m sore from my restart yesterday – yup, my promise to keep to the program in December ultimately ummm (self talk: \u00a0tell the truth)…failed, and I find myself nearly starting over.\u00a0 (is it in bad taste to wear my marathon medal as a reminder of better days?\u00a0 is it?)\u00a0 So, after the busiest first work day of the year, I did make it to the gym, got requainted with my friend the treadmill, hammered out four miles and a leg blast and headed home only to head out again for a ballroom dance lesson with Ben and friends!\u00a0 As much as I enjoyed learning the cha cha basics (and we really did MOVE for the full hour!), it may not help me with the stair climb…but I digress…so much to do…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Live smart so that you can live long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals-and-motivation","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZxW-cR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}