Never It WAS

I had a friend tell me recently that she is "addicted to dieting." She has spent a lot of time and money trying to do what worked for someone else, and didn't spend enough time trying to figure out what would work for her. She was so caught up in the idea of what was working for everyone else that she just had to try whatever the program was because it was "working" for someone. My friend became extremely frustrated when it didn't work for her. She knew she needed to lose weight and stop eating unhealthy food. She already knew that she need to exercise more. But the more she spent on programs, books, diet food, pills…whatever; the more weight she actually gained. Sound familiar? Yeah…me too!

The more time we spend thinking about food, the more time we spend eating it. The more time we think about reasons not to exercise; the less exercise we actually do. The more we beat ourselves up for not being what we think we should be, the more we become what we tell ourselves we are. This is a vicious cycle. What matters is what we actually do.

I read an article about running yesterday and what hit me, was not the fact that I was actually reading an article about running, but what the author said about how to look at what you are doing. I think the point was that we should not be so concerned with the time it takes to do the run, but that we are actually going the distance.

I don't know about you, but for me, actually going the distance is a huge deal. I have always talked myself out of even trying because I could never make it in the set amount of time. A 6 minute mile? NEVER! So never it was.