I started a piece about meal planning with a particular sentence, deleted it, typed it again, and deleted it.  I was afraid you would find it too….heavy handed?……Off-putting?…..Intense?  Here is the sentence:

You can nail your health and fitness goals with relentless and aggressive planning. 

See?  That might be a turnoff for some.  Let me explain what I mean.  

Relentless.  

Meal after meal you are called on to make and execute good food choices in a world where you are surrounded by cheap, easy, tasty meals.  Sadly, providing our bodies simple and essential nutrients and avoiding hyper-palatable, franken-foods is hard.  They are everywhere, just seeing pictures of them makes you hungry, they taste good, and they are easy.

Delivering three balanced, healthful meals a day, while constantly defending from poor choices, plus pleasing a bunch of fussy family members is hard.  It is relentless.  You have to be relentless back.

Aggressive.

We are free people, living in a free world, but why then isn’t it easy to do the things that are important to us?  It is because we are beholden to the people around us.  Our families, our employers, our communities, our friends, all push and pull us.  We love them and we want them there and we want to be there for them, but we also want to save our veggies from rotting in the vegetable drawer of the fridge and make it to 5pm spin class.  

We need to be aggressive.  We need to firmly create that small space that will allow us to care for our health.  I have so many clients who do not have twenty minutes to prep a meal and even have reported eating meals during a rushed shower.  They can’t get to their workouts because they do not have time, even adding a ten minute walk is out of the question. 

Defend your priorities aggressivly.

If something is a non-negotiable for you and others know it, you will be able to get it done.  If you had a lump on your breast and an appointment for a biopsy at 10am on a Tuesday, you would make sure to be there.  What if you treated your workout with the same respect and level of importance?  If you had a life-threatening peanut allergy and might die at a Thai restaurant, your family would gladly avoid those places.  Why can’t they agree to eat at a restaurant that serves foods that work toward your goals and they will enjoy too?

I don’t think I am being drastic when I say if you want to make a major change in your health, you have to change your habits and you have to be relentless and aggressive implementing these changes.  

Does it need to happen overnight?  NO.  But to change, you need to change.  That might mean some parts of your life look different.  Be ready to change even though change is scary.  You do not have to do it all in one swoop.  Make small incremental changes that create impact, move you toward your goals, and you can maintain for the long term.

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