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Resistance to Exercising

You know the drill. You get a thought … “I should go for a walk.” It’s a nice friendly thought. But you treat it like an enemy. You take a hammer and smash it to smitherines. Any of these sound familiar?

  • I don’t have time. (just watched two hours of Law & Order back-to-back)
  • Are you nuts? Can’t you see? There’s a hurricane outside. (mild mist)
  • It’s too cold (shirt sleeve weather)
  • I’ve got to do my tax return (it’s two years late)
  • I don’t feel like it (major whining in progress
  • I don’t WANT to (resistance, rebellion)
  • I don’t HAVE to, you can’t make me (the blank-you factor)

    • And that little voice (your subconscious mind) the one that was urging you to walk? It goes and hides for two weeks before it is brave enough to try again.

    So … after days of resisting the urge to go for a walk I finally did it.

    Then I downloaded a mountain of tacos and a vat of salsa!!

    Sigh. BIG SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

    That’s OK right?
    I SAID that I could eat whatever I wanted, in whatever quantities I wanted, whenever I wanted.

    Yes … it’s OK.
    Telling yourself “you can’t” … produces the opposite action.

    I can

    I can

    I CAN!!

    I can allow myself to go for a walk and I CAN eat tacos.

    So the question is … are you RESISTING? What are you resisting?

    Melanie

    Posted in Getting Skinny August 7th, 2006 by Melanie | No comments