How You Live Determines How Fit You Are

Did you know that how you live, day to day, determines the level
of fitness and muscularity you’ll achieve? It’s true, if you
have a lifestyle that supports weight(fat) loss, you will not
have to worry about being overweight.

If your lifestyle is not supportive of fat loss and staying fit,
then it really doesn’t matter what you do in the gym, your
results will be limited.

It’s when you expect one thing and do something totally opposite
trying to get it that there becomes a problem.

If you weight train intensely, do your cardio consistently, and
support yourself nutritionally, you’ll get leaner, stronger, and
more fit. It happens. Certain steps lead to certain
destinations.

But doing things repeatedly that DO NOT support your goals will
ensure you DO NOT reach them.

Here’s some examples;

It’s the new year and you decide one of your resolutions is to
lose weight, specifically 15 pounds of fat. You give up your
old, pleasurable lifestyle of eating burgers and fries four
nights a week while watching your favorite T.V. shows.

Your new, improved lifestyle involves eating salads and chicken
breasts and exercising at the time you used to watch your T.V.
shows.

You’re so determined to lose this weight that you sacrifice all
sense of fun for the next four weeks while you continue to
exercise each night, skipping the fast food and T.V.

Four weeks have gone by and you’ve indeed lost your goal weight
of 15 pounds.

So you figure, hey, I’ve done it, now I can celebrate a bit. I’m
going to cut back a bit on the exercise now that I’ve lost the
weight I wanted and I think I’ll see what’s on the T.V.

You go to the fridge for a snack and realize you haven’t gone
shopping for your healthy foods yet this week.

But hey, there’s still those burgers and fries in the fridge,
and you’ve earned a little celebration meal.

Soon, the lost pleasure of eating this delicious food and
watching your favorite TV show returns and feels so great. So
you do it again the next night, and the next, etc….

The old, unproductive habits have crept back into your life and
have now influenced the newer, more productive ones. Your
lifestyle is nothing more than what you do, day in and day out.
It can either support your fitness goals or hurt them.

If you want to shed some body fat yet you continue to take days
off from cardio because you’re not motivated enough to do it,
that’s part of your lifestyle.

What you choose to do each day will influence what you get in
return.

Make small, improved lifestyle changes that support your fitness
goals and continue them until they become habit. Then move on to
another small change that benefits you, replacing an older, less
productive habit.

In fact, by making lifestyle changes in moderation, you increase
the likelihood that these changes will be permanent.

Anytime that you go back to the unproductive lifestyle that
caused you to be overweight, the weight you lost can return
again.

The solution? Do not rule out all sense of pleasure when you
decide to go after your fitness goal.

In fact, your fitness goals of being slimmer, more muscular, and
more confident should be more pleasureable than burgers or fries.

If your surrounding environment and habits (cookies, cake, ice
cream in front of the TV) do not contribute to your fitness
goals, you need to make a change so that what you eat and do
each day does.

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