Cortech Pants – Is Your Brain Keeping You From Losing Weight?
Posted: September 13, 2010 at 10:46 pm
The hardest part about starting a fitness program is getting our mind to cooperate. We’ve allowed it to fill up over the years with thoughts like, “Oh, I’ll start tomorrow”, “It’s just a little bag of chips”, “Hey, enjoy yourself it’s the holidays”, and the more we keep feeding our mind that garbage the heavier it gets and eventually weighs us down to where it takes control.
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We don’t realize it’s happening because it happens over the course of years. Suddenly the Cortech Pants feel a little tighter and the walk upstairs has us breathing a little too hard. We sort remember when we could touch our toes, but it’s been a while.
This pattern goes on and on until we run into that old friend that we haven’t seen in years and they comment on our weight. Some people don’t get that lucky of a wake up call. Some wind up with
coronary problems and have their doctors force them to lose weight. Some of those people don’t make it at all.
Why? Our minds are very powerful and feed off of what we put in it. So why not reverse the process and start filling it up with the good stuff?
When I was in high school I was in the best shape of my life and somehow in the college years I put on 30 pounds. I never saw it coming. I know I started drinking a lot more beer, and all the pizza and wings weren’t bad either. Then I moved to Los Angeles and had to get a California driver’s license.
When that license came in the mail I thought I was going to pass out. I looked like two of what I remembered in high school. I had said on the license that I weighed 175 because that’s what I remembered from my in-shape days. When I bought a scale and saw it ring up 205 I changed my life that day and have kept it up for 23 years. Today I weigh 178 (I’m 5′ 10″) and have hovered around 180 for all those years.
How did I do it? The same way I still do it today? One day at a time and daily mental exercises that keep me on track without much effort. However, it wasn’t easy getting started. It was easier to sleep in rather than get up and exercise. It was really easy to get out of work and go to a happy hour,
but I kept looking at that driver’s license and that was all the motivation I needed.
I decided that mornings would be better to workout because I’ll get it out of the way and don’t need to battle my brain after work. The thing about morning exercise is your mind and body have not been used to getting up at 5 or 5:30, and trust me, they are not going to cooperate at all when that alarm goes off. So I decided I would have to retrain my brain.
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It will take about two weeks to reprogram yourself to get up at 5 a.m., but it can be done and once you start doing it you’ll enjoy the serenity of an early morning workout and still have time for a healthy breakfast before work.
This may sound too simplistic but try these tips if you have trouble waking up early. Obviously you want to get to bed between 9 and 10 p.m. so you get close to 8 hours rest. Don’t watch T.V., listen to the radio, go online or eat snacks. This time is for sleeping. Put your alarm clock across the room so you have to GET UP and cross the room to shut it off. DO NOT hit snooze or lie down again!
If your brain just doesn’t want to exercise then continue feeding it new information. You are already up so make sure your workout clothes are near the alarm clock. Get dressed in your workout clothes and sneakers and tell your brain you are just going to get fresh air.
Now, go outside and breathe the fresh morning air. Deep breathes until your head is clear. You may want to try walking around the block, but at first your mind and body are going to want to go back inside. That’s okay for the first few days until you start getting used to just getting up and going outside.
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