Planning For Success

One night , my wife and I were discussing how we can keep ourselves motivated to continue on the weight loss journey and not fall back into bad habits. We started to list things we were going to do to remove eating temptations, with the idea that if we removed bad foods from our hone, we wouldn’t have anything to be tempted by.

Our first plan of attack is to not bring crap food into the house. We will not be buying girl scout cookies, cookie dough, butter braids, chocolate bars or any other junk food the neighborhood kids might be selling. It’s gonna be tough turning the kids away without a sale, but it’s something we must do for us.

This lead to writing down other planning activities, all geared at helping us achieve our weight loss goals. This includes weekly meal planning and time management planning for workouts. Will, desire and determination might be enough to succeed at weight loss, but why not give myself an even better chance? Why not prepare and plan? It can only help. Like the old saying goes “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”.

We have been doing much better in our planning of meals and activities in the last few weeks and it has made a huge difference. Its nice to wake up in the morning and have a plan already laid out, and not running around like a mad man trying to figure out my day. While it might seem nominal, it has made a tremendous impact on my day-to-day routines.

There have been days where the plan I laid out had to be adjusted. And that’s ok. I don’t want to plan myself to death. My daily plan is a general guideline of what I’m going to eat, when I’m going to workout etc. Life gets in the way and I must adapt. Not adapting is what got me to where I am now.

Try planning your meals and workout time a week out, see if it helps. Plan for the future; don’t buy girl scout cookies!

Be Well. Be Active. Feel Great.