I think I need to find a better way to approach all of this. Need to boil it down to some simple things I can just do day by day. Because my current mental approach just isn't working, I find myself upset and angry when I indulge, or come up with a reason to not run. And I know that self-recrimination is not healthy.
My new goal is to make it simple: live more day by day regarding my fitness. I can still set long term goals: run a race, drop X number of pounds, etc. But do that by taking it day by day. Ask myself a few simple questions each day:
1. Is it an exercise day or recovery day? Because I do need to respect the recovery days. If it is an exercise day than do something, most likely go for a run.
2. Did I eat right today? If not, then oh well, do better tomorrow.
Questions to avoid:
1. Why didn't I exercise yesterday? Last I checked I don't know how to time travel so there is no reason to fall into the trap of wondering why I didn't do something in the past. Instead focus on what I can do today.
2. Why didn't I eat better yesterday? See above, no reason to get worked up about what I can no longer control and instead focus on making good choices now.
Because life is doing it's thing and throwing all kinds of reasons at me to not exercise, or not eat right or both on any given day. And some days those reasons will make perfect sense at the time so I don't do what I want or should. And it doesn't do my mental health any good to beat myself up when life does that. So again my new focus is on what I can do today to exercise and/or eat right, and that is all.
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