New Year New You! Blah… Blah… BLAH

I have a bone to pick with the workout/fitness industry!

They do a good job making you feel like you NEED to find the time to workout and the importance of what it does for your body! ( I understand this I really do) BUT, I don’t like these 21-days or 75-day programs that they rope you into. They promise you quick results and a group that will help keep you accountable. They say it will build a friendship and overall success for you.

Who is this you?!? Because it surely isn’t me!

I like to think I am in pretty good physical health and do workout but I have failed these 21-day programs. I can’t do these consecutive days. There are some days that my body just isn’t gonna move. I could be fine one day and the next I can be in pain or a mental fog and it is not happening. I am always very tired. Some days I struggle with choosing between showering or cooking and that workout is not in the cards.

 
With these accountability  groups, you see people pressuring you and with me, one or two things happen:

1) I push and get sicker -or-
2) I lie.

I hate lying it’s my number one pet peeve in life and I feel terrible. Then this adds to my stress and just hurts me more than not even working out!!! It then makes me resentful. I start comparing myself and go down that rabbit hole.

I ultimately end up not liking the person pushing me!
I know the end goal is to be healthier and move. I just hope that in 2021 people realize that so many of us suffer from some kind of chronic illness and struggle more than the average human being. I already struggle with knowing and seeing that most normal things affect me differently. With social media, I see people doing things over and over that would put me in a hospital. They don’t even think twice about it and I am happy they have the health and the ability to do so. It just doesn’t make it any easier for me to process my own life and illness.

I just see so many people in this chronic illness community wanting to lose weight and jump into these programs and have all this motivation and intent to do amazing things with their health. But reality sets in.

5 days in, when the group is going ok and people start posting about the NSV ( non-scale victories) the fatigue kicks in.

You push through the workout but that night the pain gets worse, so you take a pain pill, you either sleep, that
drugged sleep, where your wake up in a fog and groggy, or you don’t sleep from that painsomina and are even
more tired than the previous day.

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You take a day off. 

This starts the trend of getting off track. Sometimes it takes 2-3 days to get back to feeling normal and that is
okay!

But now, do you start back and do the other days you missed, or do you just start on the day it is?

Maybe you do a two in one?

Damn, that burpee was harder.

You lose endurance and then it’s a negative feeling towards your body and goals.

It just keeps pushing you down and that’s not helping anyone- my biggest take away from this rant is to not give up! Do your workouts when YOU feel like it and when your body is ready. 21-days for a normal person could look like 50-days to us and you know what…
that’s ok!!

Just remember every time you take the initiative to move, do it in a way to serves you and that is gonna help your realistic goals! Understanding that we are not like everyone is helpful, but its own challenge in itself.

Stay positive
Stay focused on your goals
It is going to take time but you got this!!

XO,

• This is no way any kind of negative post to beachbody or other programs! I am a member and love the workouts, but like I said above, I can’t do them in the days they set for results!