HOW TO GET BACK ON THE WORKOUT WAGON

November 25, 2016 in diet, exercise, food, gym, life, Lifestyle, routine, workout

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Now this is a story all about how…I fell off the wagon and stopped eating healthy or going to the gym. You know that classic tale? Well it happened, the last few months were stressful as heck, I went to America and ate my body-weight in mac and cheese for fourteen days straight (no regrets though my friends, no regrets) and now it is nearly December and I am not yet ready to let myself go entirely for the festive season.

It’s time to get back on the wagon and get my arse into gear (and a size or two smaller hopefully) and there are a few ways I’ve discovered – because yes I’ve fallen off the wagon before, it happens because life gets in the way ands ometimes when you’re not feeling too good dragging yourself to the gym or slicing up an avocado does not appeal and the thought alone drives you into the arms of a bargain bucket .Speaking from experience here.

MAKE YOUR WORKOUTS/GYM TIME ENJOYABLE

So recently I moved out of home, into my own flat in a nearby town and had to quit the gym I loved (yes I just put gym and love in the same sentence, i know, who am i) and join a gym down the road from my new flat. Now the gym I joined was tiny, there were hardly any staff around and to put it plainly, I despised it so obviously ultimately I stopped going. Now I am moving back home (because rent sucks, rent sucks oh and rent sucks) and I am rejoining my fave gym again.

Long story short, you won’t work out if you don’t enjoy the space you’re working out in or the workouts you’re doing. I am obsessed right now with the instagram account for the New York gym DOGPOUND – it’s where Taylor Swift and the Victoria Secret girls work out and it’s full of inspiration as far as workouts are concerned. I’ve made a note of them all and I’ll be adding them into my workout routine for sure.

INSPIRE YOURSELF WHEN IT COMES TO FOOD

I have Pinterested (hello Oxford Dictionary, please make that a verb) the crappola out of recipes and meal ideas lately, it’s been the holy grail for making me excited to eat better. After pinning a thousand and one recipes to my board I’ll make a shopping list & meal plan for a week with breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack ideas. I did even not realise until I looked into it how many exciting things could be done with a sweet potato and of course it instantly dispelled the myth about eating healthy meaning all you could do was knaw on salads day in day out.

DITCH THE ‘DIET’

I used to be a sucker for this one, even recently I tried out Slimming World which did help me lose some weight but after I fell off the wagon and was ready to hop back on I decided that SW wasn’t the path I was going to take. I understand how it works for a lot of people but personally for me it was limiting in the sense that it stopped me from having food that I knew wasn’t bad for me like avocado (sorry, this post is not sponsored by the great gods of avocado it’s just cropped up a lot) and I didn’t want to feel like I couldn’t eat something, I never want to feel like that.

Diets like Slimming World do provide you with tools and keys to help when it comes to ditching their plan and going it on your own though which I will give them full credit for. However, diets that include cutting our carbs and such are just not great in the long-term, you need to think of the way you eat as a lifestyle choice and not a diet.

Getting back on the wagon can be hard, especially if you’ve been off a while but there’s never a bad time to get back on. What are your tips for getting back on track after a break?