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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!
I hope everyone had a wonderful and memorable Holiday season. Now is the time when our thoughts turn to New Year's resolutions and such like. However you don't need a new year to make a positive change, although it is as good a time as any! Losing extra pounds and getting fitter and healthier takes a real commitment as with anything else. I play the piano as some of you know. If I don't practise, my music gets weak and so does my ability to play. However when I do practise and put some effort into it - sure I make mistakes - but I treat them as part of the learning process, I have never yet learned to play a musical piece without hitting many wrong notes, that is how I learn and improve, and eventually succeed. I also value my small successes, learning a sequence of tricky chords for example, which eventually flow together to become part of the whole music.
And so it is with the healthier lifestyle. If it were that easy then no one would be feeling too heavy, unfit or bad about themselves. A healthier lifestyle is not about perfection as so many of us regulars have learned through experience - but about patience, persistance and continued effort as we say here. I hit wrong notes when on the piano and with my eating etc at times, but I treat them as part of the process and keep working towards my goals.
Working out is important for those of us who choose to do so, the rewards are immeasurable not only for how we look, but for our health in so many ways both physically and mentally. However this doesn't mean you need to spend every spare hour in the gym, work out a plan which suits you which you can live with, if you put too much pressure on initially such as vowing to spend all of your evenings in the gym, chances are you won't stick with it and could even injure yourself! To begin with, cardio is great for fat burning so maybe something like 20 mins 3 times a week on a treadmill or elliptical is a good place to start, then increase from there.
So for those of you who might be reading and feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment with all the food and temptation which abounds this time of year, you can do this! The trick is to try to make changes and a plan that you can live with, yes you can lose weight rapidly on fad diets, but you will not be doing the best you can for your body, and it is quite likely that you will regain the weight as quickly as you lost it in the first place.
Set small easily achievable goals to motivate and encourage you and take the first steps and above all remember - if you slip so what!! Just pick yourself up, forgive yourself and start again - it isn't the fact that you ate too much of the wrong thing that will stop you from achieving success, that only happens if you don't bother to get back on track, once you can embrace this then things click into place and it becomes so much easier!
Have a great week
I hope everyone had a wonderful and memorable Holiday season. Now is the time when our thoughts turn to New Year's resolutions and such like. However you don't need a new year to make a positive change, although it is as good a time as any! Losing extra pounds and getting fitter and healthier takes a real commitment as with anything else. I play the piano as some of you know. If I don't practise, my music gets weak and so does my ability to play. However when I do practise and put some effort into it - sure I make mistakes - but I treat them as part of the learning process, I have never yet learned to play a musical piece without hitting many wrong notes, that is how I learn and improve, and eventually succeed. I also value my small successes, learning a sequence of tricky chords for example, which eventually flow together to become part of the whole music.
And so it is with the healthier lifestyle. If it were that easy then no one would be feeling too heavy, unfit or bad about themselves. A healthier lifestyle is not about perfection as so many of us regulars have learned through experience - but about patience, persistance and continued effort as we say here. I hit wrong notes when on the piano and with my eating etc at times, but I treat them as part of the process and keep working towards my goals.
Working out is important for those of us who choose to do so, the rewards are immeasurable not only for how we look, but for our health in so many ways both physically and mentally. However this doesn't mean you need to spend every spare hour in the gym, work out a plan which suits you which you can live with, if you put too much pressure on initially such as vowing to spend all of your evenings in the gym, chances are you won't stick with it and could even injure yourself! To begin with, cardio is great for fat burning so maybe something like 20 mins 3 times a week on a treadmill or elliptical is a good place to start, then increase from there.
So for those of you who might be reading and feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment with all the food and temptation which abounds this time of year, you can do this! The trick is to try to make changes and a plan that you can live with, yes you can lose weight rapidly on fad diets, but you will not be doing the best you can for your body, and it is quite likely that you will regain the weight as quickly as you lost it in the first place.
Set small easily achievable goals to motivate and encourage you and take the first steps and above all remember - if you slip so what!! Just pick yourself up, forgive yourself and start again - it isn't the fact that you ate too much of the wrong thing that will stop you from achieving success, that only happens if you don't bother to get back on track, once you can embrace this then things click into place and it becomes so much easier!
Have a great week
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