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Q: I’ve started the Body-for-LIFE Program and I’m seeing great results! Sometimes my old desires of eating junk food and lying around watching TV creep into my mind. What can I do to keep these thoughts out of my mind and not give in?
A: First, let’s talk a little basic physics—getting an object at rest to begin moving requires far more energy than it does to keep it moving. Think of a rocket: 90 percent of the energy is spent on the initial thrust—on getting the blasted thing into the air. The remaining 10 percent is all that’s needed to keep it going.
In a way, the same applies to transforming our bodies—it’s the act of getting started that is, by far, the most challenging stage of the process. Since you are in your fourth week of your Body-for-LIFE Program, you are experiencing considerable momentum and you are in a position to make an extraordinary transformation.
It is understandable that sometimes during your Program you may feel as if you’re having a tug of war between your old self and your new self. It’s not easy to make the type of changes in your life that you’ve decided to make. In your moments of decision, when you feel like eating ice cream at night or lying in bed in the morning instead of getting up to work out, ask yourself, "Who do I want to be today: the old me or the new me?" Your body and life are being shaped by these moment-to-moment decisions.
It’s those decisions that brought you to where you were at the beginning of your Body-for-LIFE Challenge—fat, tired and unhappy. And if you fall back into your previous lifestyle and continue to make decisions the old way, you’re going to continue to produce the same results.
To create different results, you have to take a different approach. It’s not easy to stand up to yourself, but you can do it! And, if you were to stop now, you would lose the momentum you’ve created up to this point and you would have to start all over again. I don’t want you to have to go through that, and I know you don’t either.
So please, hang in there! Keep the momentum going and the energy flowing!
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