Overcoming my biggest obstacle: Absent-mindedness
Through much trial and error, I have found that my own biggest issue isn’t a lack of will or knowledge, or even applying that knowledge. My big problem is my absent-mindedness. And while it permeates all of my life, it’s only recently that I have come to the conclusion that I have control of it. My absent-minded habits have led me in the past to several fitness occluding things, including:
1. Munching when I’m bored, not hungry, and sometimes very uninterested in the food that is in front of me.
2. Not keeping track of what I am eating, what weights I used last week, or when the last time I had a day of rest.
3. The inability to stop from eating all the munchies that my co-workers bring in on a very regular basis. I wouldn’t even feel tempted…but (believe it or not) I’d pass by a pizza box, grab a slice and start eating before I even knew I had a slice in my hand. (The happened at work the other night. I stopped dead in my tracks, asking myself "What and I doing? I don’t even want this and I’m getting ready to eat my own dinner.")
4. I also have the typical "girl" problem. Heavy weights. Not that I didn’t think I was using them. But I wasn’t. I don’t increase my weight very often, and I didn’t pay enough attention to the fact that you aren’t lifting heavy… if you can do 15 reps of your "heavy weights."
5. I have had a hard time taking a day off from working out. I would always say that I would, only to end up going ahead and working out anyways. (this I attribute to my over-active tendancies - which my husband refers to as ADHD.)
But how do I overcome the absent minded thinking? It should be so easy. In order to not be asent minded, one must be present in the moment. But to be present in each and every moment when my whole life has been sporatic and spontaneous is no easy task. It is a task which I will be constantly working on. But now that I have descried the problem, I can at least start to fix it.
Knowing is half the battle.
