Self Sabotage - The Enemy of Your Fitness Success

Secret Self Sabotage Behaviors- Part I
Stop These Behaviors to Get Fit Faster

Whether you are a seasoned fitness enthusiast or fitness novice, it is important to recognize and stop destructive behaviors that sabotage your journey to a fit and healthy body. If you identify with any of the sabotage behaviors, stop standing in the way of your results by implementing one or all of the suggested solutions. Most importantly, find someone to be accountable to regarding those behaviors. Constant accountability to a support system is a habit that is common among fit people.

Sabotage Behavior #1: Setting Wimpy Goals That Lack Passion

The Problem:

If you are not passionate about and emotionally attached to achieving your goal, you will not consistently take the action required to achieve it.

The Solution: Get real about what you want and why you want it. This can be uncomfortable because you may be admitting to feelings that you have denied or ignored or risking failure because your goal is aggressive. The risk of failure and the vulnerability that comes with setting passion filled goals is better than the alternative of guaranteed failure in pursuing a goal that you really don’t care about. Set the goal, get real about why, and then guarantee your success. To guarantee your success, get a solid plan specific to your goal from a professional fitness coach. Increase your belief in the possibility of attaining your goal by finding others who have accomplished what you want to accomplish and learn from their journey. Finally, remind yourself daily of your goal and your motivation for achieving it with affirmations, a vision board, or reading inspiring transformation stories.

Sabotage Behavior #2: Setting Vague Workout Appointments

The Problem

: In this world of fast paced lives, that which is not scheduled is often left undone. It is not good enough to know which workout you plan to do on what day. You need an appointment.

The Solution: Set an appointment and then honor it the way you would any other appointment. Only skip the appointment if it is an absolute necessity. When you must change the appointment, be sure to schedule it for another time. If you can not realistically fit the planned workout in your schedule at another time, commit to doing a quick 5-minute workout that day and pick up your regular workout schedule with the next scheduled workout. Don’t carry the guilt of the missed appointment and allow the “makeup workout” to hang over your head. Get intense for five minutes and then start fresh the next day.

Sabotage Behavior #3: Not Making Time to Eat

The Problem: When you skip meals, you negatively affect your metabolism. PERIOD. Not only are you missing out on an opportunity to spike your metabolism with a meal, you are also setting yourself up to be so hungry that you make poor food choices for the next couple of hours or even the rest of the day. When you are overly hungry, it is highly likely that you will overeat or make non supportive choices at your next meal or graze on snacks until your next meal. Either one of these will move you away from your goal.

The Solution: Decide that you are worth the effort that it takes to get the body you want, that fit people are as busy as unfit people, and that every meal doesn’t have to be a perfectly plated, warm culinary delight. Once you have accepted those truths, implement these busy woman nutrition solutions. For a meal at your desk, in your car, or in meetings, carry a few single servings of protein powder. You will be able to add water for a quick meal on the go. If you are sure that you will need to drink protein shakes while away from home, make your shakes at home and then use drink Tupperware to transport them to eliminate a step while on the go. Eat a fruit and nut bar like a Larabar for a super portable mini meal. If are able to eat full meals but still find you are too busy to stop and prepare them, make sure that every meal is packaged in individual Tupperware before you start the day. Set a timer and eat on cue. Finally, make salads and other meals you wouldn’t mind eating cold if you find that you don’t have time to warm your food.

This article offers a few solutions to the most common sabotage behaviors that I see while coaching clients. If you find other solutions work better for you, use those instead just make sure that you acknowledge your self sabotage behaviors, get accountable, and then overcome them. In part two of this article, we will explore the rest of the most common self sabotage behaviors.

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