Are the scales and your strava app more important to you than your happiness?
Let’s just say this past week you ran and completed your longest ever run and your weight had dropped by a 1lb!
That week you
You completed your runs and strength workouts
You worked well on your nutrition and tracked, and you were in a calorie deficit.
The next week came and your pace was slower, and you were unable to complete the distance you had planned and weight had increased by 2lb.
Nothing had changed from the previous week ether!
You get hung up by this and think what’s the point and think about giving up!
Things to think about:
✅Is weight defined as body fat on how we feel and look?
✅Does weight not fluctuate for lots of other reasons?
✅Should our runs improve every single week?
✅Why do you actually run in the first place?
✅Are the scales more important than the comment made to you this week saying you look great?
✅The fact that the inches are dropping off your waist this week?
✅Just before you stepped on the scales you felt more confident when looking in the mirror
✅That you have actually lost 8lb of weight since starting 2 months ago anyway!
✅That 1 year ago you would never have even run to the end of the street!
We can get hung up on weight loss, PB's hit, running mileage achievements. ⠀
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But don’t let a number define you!!!
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Fall in love with Happiness, not a number. ⠀
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Stay consistent and believe that all the effort you are putting into your goal is so much more important than any number.
I feel a big part of everyones journey is being able to think about why?
Finding your reasons why usually go past a number…
✅Body confidence
✅Feeling attractive
✅Clothes fit better
✅What was it like when someone complimented you on how great you looked?
✅How does it make you feel when you run?
✅How would it make you feel if you were not able to run?
✅Boost in energy levels
✅Endorphins are high with a sense of achievement.
✅Reducing stress and anxiety and improving feelings a wellbeing
✅Doing this to promote healthy living with your children
Finding your why of the feeling that comes with scales and your strava running app is far more important and it can open your eyes to what really matters.
be sure to know even if things haven’t been going well ether that there is other days when it goes right and being consistent and working on non negotiable tasks are important even when we don’t feel like we are going anywhere.
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Dan
