I get asked a lot where do I find the willpower to do it? It’s a question I’ve never really understood. I get where the questions coming from but it just doesn’t apply to my weight loss and health experience.
The reason people ask this is that they consider weight loss and health to be hard work. They think the weight loss is going to be a diet. They think it’s gonna be restrictive. They think they’re gonna be hungry, perhaps they even think they have to go in the gym and do lots of cardio therefore they wanna know where I get my willpower from.
The reality is I’ve never used willpower at all in anyway! The reason is I thoroughly enjoy everything that I do. Let me explain... when I’m in the gym in the morning with Danny, listening to rap music, laughing at the lyrics, chatting through my concerns of the day with him, lifting weights, I’m enjoying the experience. I’m enjoying the camaraderie. I’m enjoying the excursion. If this was something I hated it would be hard work. I would need willpower to do it but I don’t need any willpower because I enjoy it.
When I sit down and have my breakfast, perhaps yoghurt brand fruit and maple syrup with a cup of coffee, I don’t need willpower to eat it. I enjoy it. I’m full up full up with good food. Therefore mid-morning I don’t need willpower to stop myself eating a chocolate bar or a bag of crisps. I’ve eaten the meal that I’ve enjoyed.
When I sit down for dinner, I don’t need willpower to eat the bang bang chicken and noodles flavoured with peanut butter and chilli. I eat a huge steaming bowl and I'm full again. I have absolutely no use of willpower whatsoever. I’m enjoying what I’m eating. Where’s the willpower again? I ask you.
What this takes is organisation. The organisation to make sure I’ve planned my meals and I have the ingredients in my cupboard waiting for me. Organisation, my friends, not willpower,
The secret to this is not just to enjoy the result, not just enjoy the new you, the slimmer, healthier, more confident you but to also enjoy the journey as it’s happening. Enjoying the increased activity because you love going for a walk. Enjoying your food because it taste good and it fills you up.
Use enjoyment not willpower... Something you enjoy you can keep up, something that needs willpower will collapse eventually.
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