This is it. The last few days of our FFF. Can you believe it? Here’s where it counts. Let’s stick with those great habits you’ve been ingraining over the last month, and put in a mammoth effort for this next 2 days.
I know a couple of you have fallen off the wagon a little bit, and are vowing to start afresh tomorrow… or the day after… or next Monday. There will always be occasions when you slip, the key is recommitting as soon as you can. Don’t wait till x-day to start again- make it better with your next meal.
This 30 days serves as a point for resetting your system- the key is that you can never fully feel the effects of a nutritional screw up until you have given your body an optimum chance to experience just how it feels to thrive on what you fuel it with. That’s part of the value of being strict, stripping away the rubbish, and getting back to real food.
Provided we’ve given ourselves full opportunity to reset, sometimes our slips are really good in helping us to rekindle our commitment. By being strict, practicing those new behaviours, and enjoying the benefits of great nutrition over time, the moment we do slip up hits us so hard and feels so terrible we can’t wait to get back on the wagon and humming again. It makes you realise how good it actually does feel to make eating right a permanent part of your lifestyle.
Lindsey Smith and Crystal McReynolds at the CrossFit Games 2009 (picture from Crossfit Games site)
I spent this past weekend away at some country picnic races- and had the privilege of watching Fashions on the Field, Miss Racegoer be awarded to a young girl with slouchy shoulders and a short, tight dress who looked like she had only narrowly missed drowning in a pool of fake tan. She was skinny fat. Really makes you appreciate the value of a lean, fit, strong woman. I can definitely tell you my outlook has changed on this immensely since I began CrossFit.
Instead of looking at these girls with envy and seeing thin, I look at them now and all I see is weak. If that’s the way these things are judged, give me shorts, a pair of lifting socks and a heavy bar over Fashions on the Field any day.
Post your thoughts and points this week to comments.
x J.
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
— George Horace Lorimer
Walk the walk
Sitting, standing and bouncing
Walk the walk
Sitting, standing and bouncing
