Friends Don't Let Friends Get Fat!!

Good Day, my fellow fitness enthusiasts.  I hope this blog finds you well.
Almost every day, I find myself repeating the same things to my clients regarding nutrition.

I tell them to eat regularly. I tell them to cut sugars. I tell them to watch fat content.
I tell them to watch carb intake and what carbs are good and bad.
I even suggest what foods to eat to burn energy and help them to become more nutritionally efficient.

Last week, I almost found myself at the end of my rope. In the midst of repeating myself for the 4th straight hour...I felt worthless. I felt as though my efforts were in vain and that my clients are using me as a crutch.
I felt as if my clients would never get it or that they just don't want it.

True enough, I have a unique approach to things...which is to say I am somewhat of a fanatic. I'm all or nothing. I don't have much middle ground. So, when I have to continue to tell the same people over and over how to become nutritionally efficient, it bothers me to the core. I don't mind reinforcements...but to just flat out eat like you DON'T know and come in to my gym, hop on the scale and look perplexed like you have no clue what just happened.
Then I have to hear the babble about feelings. I have to listen to the frustration. I have to talk people off of the ledge every time we get on the scale and begin to repeat the same things. It starts with and ends the same...
FOOD LOG!!

I can't help if i can't see what you are eating. period. Interestingly enough...that's not even that this blog is about...I just really wanted to get that off my chest.  whew!!


ok, Friends Don't Let Friends Get Fat!!

just like anything in life that you want to get accomplished, fitness is an area that requires discipline. its not just getting to the gym. that's the easy part. It's eating toward your goal every day. I did not say starving yourself, nor did I say, eating expensive organic food or salads all day. one of the biggest reasons for anyone who struggles with losing weight or achieving their fitness goals is their support group, family, inner circle, homies, spouse or whatever....the people closest to you.  If you are not strong enough to discipline yourself to eat toward  your goal when you around your close friends...then DON'T EAT AROUND THEM!
If your closest friends cannot support your health and fitness goals, DON'T EAT AROUND THEM!

ITS YOUR GOAL...NOT THEIRS!  i don't understand why people say, "i ate poorly because i was with friends". that's a decision YOU made! if they are your friends, why cant you eat a salad in front of them? why can't you drink water while they drink liquor? why do you have to sacrifice your goals just to associate?

if your friends dropped out of college, would you have...just to be cool? ignorance isn't cool, nor is being unhealthy..when you can help it.

if your friends can't support your health and fitness goals...assess your friendship. really!
hiring a personal trainer or joining a gym costs money. it takes sacrifice. you clearly thought enough of yourself to initiate change.

WHY THEN, WOULD YOU ALLOW OTHERS TO DISTRACT YOU FROM YOUR GOAL, just so they can feel better about themselves.

let them drink. let them eat poorly. let them smile and laugh.
THEN.....THEN, let them go home and struggle to fit into their clothes and get frustrated at themselves for not being as healthy as they want or as fit as they want.

don't share in your friends' misery. let them have it all to themselves..they've earned it. you don't have to protest at the bar or profess at the dinner table....just eat toward  your goals and be true to yourself.

it just takes one time for you to take a stand and say, "no thank you". three simple words..."no thank you".

you would be amazed at how easy it is, how much of a load it will relieve and how much a difference it makes in your ability to focus on your goals.

Friends Don't Let Friends Get Fat....

Becoming Resolute- Deciding to change your life

Well, well, well..... Look who's back by (blogging)  popular demand. It's your favorite trainer.
A lots changed since I've blogged last.
A lot of my clients have asked why I stopped and I didn't have a good reason, I suppose.
I didn't see the value in sharing my thoughts so .... There it went.

But....  I'm back now, so let's move forward. Since my last blog, we have grown quite a bit.
The gym is bigger, offers more services and even has a new name. We are now Pound 4 Pound Fitness and Nutrition. (www.pound4poundfitness.co) that's right, .co, NOT .com.

Enough business, let's get into what I want to get into, becoming resolute!!
The only time you hear the word resolute is when it's used in its most popular form... Resolution... As in New Years.. As in every damn year.

Isn't it an oxymoron to make the same New Years resolution every year? If you become resolute, you should not have to go back and start over again, there should be progress, right? So at that point it's no longer a resolution... It's perseverance .

The biggest... I mean theee biggest challenge for people is becoming resolute. Not only in their fitness desires, but in life in general. People can't make up their damned minds to do something and see it through till it's completion.

As it pertains to attaining a healthy lifestyle, this issue is crippling...absolutely crippling to anyone's aspirations of success.  Getting someone into the gym initially is easy. Getting someone to eat chicken and brown rice once is easy, but asking them to become resolute to the point where they take life changing steps is the issue. Seriously.

Let me dig deeper. Folks want what they aren't willing to work for. Everyone comes to me wanting to lose their gut or tone their butt. Hell, you didn't get that gut over night and yo butt didn't fall to the floor overnight. Your lifestyle created those issues. And the only thing that can override that is a new lifestyle. Plain and simple.

In order to achieve a healthy target, you have to become resolute that THIS IS MY NEW LIFESTYLE.  Not, this is what I'm doing this week.

You can't have a lifestyle change that only exists Monday - Thursday, then you become a weekend warrior and let loose. No, that won't cut it.

And let me say this... Don't be looking at me saying " but ramont I can't eat like that every day... I need my food".

Quit whining. That damn food got you here.

I'm not asking you to make wholesale changes on day one, just decide!
DECIDE that you are moving forward.

After that, the changes that need to occur will be much easier. You can't make changes if you have not accepted that you need to change. Once you have decided..then you can begin to examine where you can create small, sustainable lifestyle changes.

Little things like adding morning cardio. That small decision is a lifestyle change. Even if you do nothing else and successfully do that... You have made a lifestyle CHANGE.

that change will bring about another change, as you have mastered one resolution already. No longer is it a " will do", it's embedded into who you have become.

Next, cut back on sugar. Make a decision to change your snacks or only eat sweets on occasion. And yes, you can live without them.  Trust me.

Now you have made two lifestyle changes that impact your goal.
They can be done one at a time or if you are strong enough, simultaneously. But they must be made.

We are deciding to live unhealthy lives. We have become resolute to get onto medication. Our lifestyles lead us to unnecessary medical complications. And you look at me sideways when I ask you to eat plain oatmeal??

You bout to make me cuss!!

Becoming resolute is the very first thing you must do in order to find success.
Do not go to the gym if you are not resolute. Do not pay for a trainer if you are not resolute.
We cannot give you resolution, only direction and motivation.
You have to want it first. You have to have to have it.  Yes, I know what I just said... You have to HAVE to have it.