Re: Need encouragement...or a good kick!

[Guest guest]

Getting settled into the food part of BFL is HARD in the beginning! I

had terrible carb withdrawal, and the workouts really do knock you

for a loop in the beginning, which made me not want to cook and just

snack on whatever I felt like eating.

The diet is BY FAR, the most important part of the program, though.

It's what will make or break your success on this program. You can do

the workouts, put all the time into planning, but if you don't eat

the right things, you won't have good results.

Try making small promises to yourself. Don't look at it as 12 whole

weeks or six meals a day--look at it in three hour increments. Make

up your plan of what you're going to eat the next day the night

before, make sure all your food is ready to go before you go to bed

so the next day there's not an option to eat whatever you find in the

kitchen--it's all ready to go.

It gets much easier to live this way, it really does! Planning and

thinking ahead become second nature and in a few weeks, you'll have

more energy than you ever thought possible and you'll get everything

done in the day and make and eat six meals too!

Just keep hanging in there and work on planning and preparing ahead.

It's much easier to handle the obstacles that pop up when you have a

plan on how to get around them!

HTH,

Maggie

> Hi! I'm new to the group! I'm on week three--LOVE my workouts,

> using the mindset exercises in the journal, but CAN'T get with the

> program in the diet--and I'm frustrated with myself. I think I've

> managed maybe a total of THREE days where I sticked perfectly to

the

> diet. Did any of you start out this way and get better as you went

> along? Did you have to learn the self discipline in eating?

[Guest guest]

Maggie, I think this is great advice, to look at the Program as 3 hour

increments, rather than a whole 12 weeks of work... for beginners like me

especially, this is the stuff that achieving goals is made of! Thanks!

~~ Lara

Try making small promises to yourself. Don't look at it as 12 whole

weeks or six meals a day--look at it in three hour increments. Make

up your plan of what you're going to eat the next day the night

before, make sure all your food is ready to go before you go to bed

so the next day there's not an option to eat whatever you find in the

kitchen--it's all ready to go.

[Guest guest]

The diet part has always been the most difficult for me, too. I love

to work out, but I've always had eating issues, and it's hard for me

to stay on track. I know a lot of ladies here have found that it

gets easier to stick to the diet as they go along, but, sadly, that

hasn't been the case with me.

This shouldn't discourage you at all, but I would suggest that if you

tend to be an emotional overeater, it would prove very helpful to

look at the underlying causes of why you have such a difficult time

sticking to the diet.

You mention that you stuck to the diet only 3 days out of 21 days;

that's really problematic. I usually manage to stick to it 3/4 of the

time. Are you overeating/undereating/eating the wrong things all the

time/cheating some of the time? What's the source of your problem?

Dani

> Hi! I'm new to the group! I'm on week three--LOVE my workouts,

> using the mindset exercises in the journal, but CAN'T get with the

> program in the diet--and I'm frustrated with myself. I think I've

> managed maybe a total of THREE days where I sticked perfectly to

the

> diet. Did any of you start out this way and get better as you went

> along? Did you have to learn the self discipline in eating?

[Guest guest]

Thank you for posting this. It's hard to remember just to make these

small promises day by day

Robin

> > Hi! I'm new to the group! I'm on week three--LOVE my workouts,

> > using the mindset exercises in the journal, but CAN'T get with

the

> > program in the diet--and I'm frustrated with myself. I think

I've

> > managed maybe a total of THREE days where I sticked perfectly to

> the

> > diet. Did any of you start out this way and get better as you

went

> > along? Did you have to learn the self discipline in eating?

[Guest guest]

Hey there-

Welcome to the group! Well, I don't know what to say about the diet, but alot

of people say that 80% of your success on this or any program (I think) is your

diet. I have been very disciplined myself, seeing as I wasn't eating anything

before, this is like a vacation to me! LOL But there have been times where I am

like hmmmm, that sure looks good, but you say OUT LOUD, Nope, not going to do

it... and you take your two legs that you have been working out and WALK

AWAY... and you eat your 6 meals and if you still think you want more, you say,

well I can eat again in 2 hours. Then you say, boy I can't wait till my free

day! Eating like that just isn't worth getting frustrated and feeling crappy

about yourself KWIM? You can do it!

~Kim

Need encouragement...or a good kick!

Hi! I'm new to the group! I'm on week three--LOVE my workouts,

using the mindset exercises in the journal, but CAN'T get with the

program in the diet--and I'm frustrated with myself. I think I've

managed maybe a total of THREE days where I sticked perfectly to the

diet. Did any of you start out this way and get better as you went

along? Did you have to learn the self discipline in eating?