Prepare to fail, that may seem like a strange concept, but let me expand on that. Life gets crazy, complicated, busy. etc. What we mean to do, we don't always get to. We plan on getting a healthy dinner, but the meeting ran long at work, you were late getting kids to soccer, practice was extra long and now you are all tired and hungry and the drive-through is looking pretty good now. Sound familiar?
When it comes to health and fitness, look at your weak areas. Is it making time to workout? Is it snacking? Is it not planning a dinner so you're eating out? Where do you tend to fail? If you look at those areas where you have failed before and plan to do so again, you can actually plan to succeed. For example, if you tend to get a snack because you are hungry while running errands and the Starbucks coffee and treat calls to you; you can plan by having snacks in your car - nuts, dried fruit, low sugar protein bars, etc., and a bottle of water. If you have something to eat and drink, you most likely will think before you stop to get a snack.
If dinner is your trouble spot, get to know your crock-pot. You can prepare (yes it takes a little time) your meal the night before, put everything in the crock-pot, store in the refrigerator, then take it out and turn on the crock pot in the morning. You'll have dinner ready and save money (not to mention calories) by not eating out. There are tons of healthy and delicious slow-cooker or crock-pot recipes online.
If making time for your workouts is where you fail, schedule them like an appointment. If you say at some point today I am going to workout, that's pretty much setting yourself up to fail. Instead, look at your day and figure out when you have time (and I truly believe everyone has time) to get in a workout. Block that time out and make it happen. Move things around that aren't that important. Truly, what's more important than your health and your sanity?
If you plan in the areas that you typically fail in, you will most likely set yourself up to succeed.
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