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A Story About … fun (and the gym and our favourite hobbies)
To be quite honest with you, there are things I like doing more than going to the gym to train.
This, I think, is quite a common feeling.
I get it. Training can be boring, and gyms can be intimidating and scary.
Sometimes pointless and a waste of time, repeating the same thing over and over again without seeing progress. And God forbid you actually talk with someone and have a laugh whilst you are there. It’s like the fitness equivalent of the London Tube!
I encourage every superstar of mine to focus on their life over training and we create a way of working that supports, improves and strengthens their fun. And we have fun whilst we do it!
Some of the fun I support my superstars with:
Cycling
Swimming
Running
Walking
Pole dancing
Horse riding
Tennis
Crafting
Trapeze
Triathlons
Marathons
Dancing
Golf
What fun hobbies do you do that you’d enjoy more if you were stronger, fitter and more mobile?
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How does your past experience shape your approach to eating now? Can we change our future?
I think so!
‘Eyes bigger than…’
I was reminded of this phrase whilst eating my lunch recently.
I was starving. So made a very decent sized lunch Then I got full 3/4 of the way through!
How many times did your parent tell you “Eyes bigger than your stomach” when you left food on your plate as a kid?
Other phrases I remember
“Eat it all up. It’s not fair on the starving children if you leave it”
And
“If you don’t finish your plate, you can’t have any pudding”
As a forces child I went to boarding school. Meal times a were portioned and regimented and allocated a certain amount of time in the day.
If you didn’t eat then, you didn’t eat at all. And there was always a scramble for ‘seconds’
These phrases and attitude in my young years had (and still have) an effect on my eating habits. At times causing me to gain weight (fat) and drop weight (fat and muscle) through diets, extreme or otherwise so that I could conform to society’s accepted norm.
It has taken me years to work my way through all this ingrained warped attitude to food. And even now, I can rebel quite hard (Jaffa cakes were clearly meant to be eaten in one sitting…)
Here’s some of my key learnings:
Life is too short to feel guilty about food and our relationship with it.
Choose your food and enjoy it.
This is about as prescriptive as I get around nutrition. And I will never tell anyone what they should or shouldn’t do.
Not after it’s taken me so long to get all those phrases under control and/or out of my head!
What phrases do you remember from childhood that are perhaps guiding you now?
And if you want some straight talking about mindset, diet culture and what choices you can make, drop me a message
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How does your past experience shape your approach to eating now? Can we change our future? I think so ⏬ “Eyes bigger than… ???? “ I was reminded of this phrase whilst eating my lunch recently. I was starving. So made a very decent sized […]