Weight Loss and Good Intentions to Exercise
If you’ve been struggling to lose weight because you don’t ever get around to exercising, then this article is for you. Do you feel like you always have good intentions to exercise, yet everything just seems to get in the way so you don’t have the time to exercise?
This is a common scenario for many people. Our lives are so jam packed with activities that exercise can eat up some crucial minutes of your day!
Whilst you may have the best of intentions, it is an all too common scenario for other tasks to be more urgent/important than your exercise session and therefore take precedence. Typical examples could include work deadlines, meetings and sudden unforeseen circumstances like a car or computer breakdown. These are all very important events in your life, but they do get in the way of your plans to exercise.
It doesn’t take a genius to identify that good intentions will not do anything for your weight loss goals. You may intend on completing daily workouts for the next week – but if no exercise sessions actually get completed, you’re not going to make any progress whatsoever. It’s also easy to justify the lack of exercise during a week by blaming certain urgent circumstances that arose and reminding yourself that you did have good intentions to exercise.
Ultimately if you find yourself in this situation, you (and only you) need to do something about it. If your weight loss goals are important enough, you are going to have to sit down and figure out a way in which to organise your week so you do get your exercise sessions completed. More often than not, it all comes down to developing a plan. Introduce some structure into your week so you have some foundation from which to work from.
If you are going through the week and reacting to all the events that come your way, you are never going to be able to follow a consistent approach to exercise. Reacting to your environment, whilst instinctual, is an impulsive and unstructured approach to weight loss. By doing this, you are effectively putting the exercise on the back-burner and leaving it up to fate to decide whether or not you will get time to exercise. You may have good intentions to exercise, yet you are not being pro-active about exercise. In this situation, it is important to identify that the reason you are unable to exercise is not due to external circumstances – it is because you have failed to plan effectively.
Your plan is going to be completely different from anyone else’s depending upon your lifestyle. Maybe you need to get up a little earlier and exercise first thing in the morning. You may need to exercise on your lunch break, or maybe on weekends. You could try performing shorter workouts, changing gyms, exercising at home or taking up a sport. Whatever it is – you need to work out the most appropriate plan for you and your lifestyle.
Further, you need to keep yourself accountable. If you feel that you need an external source of accountability, try exercising with a friend or hiring a fitness professional such as a personal trainer. You need to be pro-active about your weight loss goals and take the necessary steps to get into an effective exercise routine.
