Why Lie?

How many lies have you told yourself today or even last night when having your glass of champagne celebrating the New Year and saying “this is the year that I will finally lose weight”

Let us be honest with ourselves, it isn’t going to happen is it?

I’ve lost the amount of times I’ve heard “I am going to start my diet tomorrow [Jan 1^st]

The thing is, you are going to fail that “diet” today, if you haven’t already, you will do

Which then cascades into yet another spiral of events

Feeling guilty

Not quite sure why you couldn’t control that craving

Which leads to more self sabotage

And the whole… fu?k it, I’ll start again on Monday  and plus I have the whole year to lose weight anyway

Did you tell yourself this lie this time last year?

You see

This is actually the first lie we tell ourselves

The second is “I’ll just get back to the norm, reality, work and everything” then I’ll start my diet

The reality is if you failed to have a strategy when it wasn’t the norm – you know the time when you have more time

Because that’s all what we’re saying really right when we say “when I get back to the norm…”

Well, if you couldn’t do it when you had time you‘re not going to be successful on that diet when you have no time!

2013 should be the proof in the pudding here

Whats changed since then?

Have you actually sat down and reflected on what was holding you back

The obstacles and barriers

The self limitations

The environments when you were most likely to cheat your diet

What caused you to cheat your diet, emotional eating, stressful events, peer pressure…

If you don’t know the answers how are you ever going to make changes

This is what we do every two weeks in our member progress meetings

We reflect, gather feedback, make adjustments, and ensure there is an understanding…. And move forward positively

I didn’t mean to put a damper on your New Year but I would be doing you a disservice as a coach if I wasn’t totally honest with you

If you want any kind of help then I would suggest ditching the diet you are on there is no such thing

Do you think our ancestors had diets?

Joe ‘I coach to win not lose’ Hanney

Ps there is 1 more lie that you tell yourself but this is too personal to share through this blog post