If you fail to plan….

Yes, you PLAN TO FAIL!!

Let’s face it, when it comes to exercising and eating well, often we’d rather be doing, or eating, something more ‘fun’ right? So with that said, if you’re not making concrete plans to work out and eat well, and just hope that it happens – chances are you’ll choose another option that’s not as beneficial for your health .

Example, you tell yourself that you’d like to try and get to gym after work. You don’t worry about taking your workout gear with you as you will have time to pop in home and get it on the way to gym. Problem is, once you get home, you sit on the couch for 5 minutes, and an hour later you’re still there and the half-arsed plan of working out has gone out the window. You hoped, you tried (sort of), but it didn’t happen – again.

You also plan to eat a great dinner with heaps of great veggies and a nice lean piece of steak. But when you go to the fridge, you realise the only veggies you have left are wilted, sad and stinky, and there’s no steak in the freezer only processed, packaged crap that you shouldn’t even feed to your dog. So, once again your intentions were good, but with no plan in place, it was a lazy, high-calorie dinner – again.

If any of this is sounding familiar, you need to start planning – it’s for your health! Proper plans, concrete plans. Lock in your exercise sessions and get your bum to the shops and stock up on everything you need. You don’t need a million tuppaware containers and spend half your Sundays preparing meals. All I do as preparation is have my veggies ready and chopped, so each day it’s easy just to throw a salad together for lunch or chuck the veg in the steamer at night. I make sure we’ve got meat in the freezer ready to go. I’ve got plenty of the little brown rice microwave tubs – easy, 40 seconds and ready to go for a good carb serving. I’ve usually always got fresh fruit in the bowl, and for those times I don’t, I make sure there’s some little tubs of fruit in the pantry. It’s about thinking ahead, getting into some great habits, and not getting caught out. Because when we get caught out, that’s when we fall back on bad habits and make poor decisions.

Set your life up so it becomes easy. Take your gym clothes with you to work, rain, hail or shine, plan, plan, plan, make time to get to the shops or market to have great food in the house. Everyone’s busy, but everyone must prioritise their health.

Stop saying you’ll ‘try’, stop saying ‘maybe’, cos there’s every chance if you’re not planning to actually MAKE IT HAPPEN, then it won’t happen. Trust me – I hear it and see it all the time. And once your plan has been in place for a while and you stick to it, you don’t even have to think, it’s just an ingrained habit and you’ll feel lost without it.

Don’t ‘try’ to look after yourself – your health needs to be number one priority – not negotiable.

Have a great day!

Paula