This weight loss game is all mind over matter. (Mind over fatter) It has very little to do with physical exhaustion or hunger. It is what you do next.
I was sitting at my kitchen table and I did not want to do anything. I didn’t want to work out. I didn’t want to relax. I was in purgatory. It wasn’t about laziness as much as it was about mental jumble. What to do? What to do? The problem with this scenario is that while you are waiting to figure out what to do, you are wasting time. Once you make that decision the clouds part and all is good in the world.
That grey zone is also a dangerous time for eating. You could suffer a snack attack. All of sudden you snap out of the funk and you are surrounded by Hershey’s Kiss tin foil. (Like a candy hypothermia blanket) Someone suggested that I should eat healthy but train my brain to think I was eating junk food. I’m going to eat these Skittles (actually peas) and this delicious Snickers bar (actually a Tofu log). That would be serious David Copperfield shit if I could pull that off.
Mind over matter is also about tricking yourself without your own self knowing that it is tricking itself. Phew! When I’m on the treadmill, I force myself not to look at the display. When I focus on the distance or the time it feels harder to run. Its weird. When I’m climbing a hill on my bike, I never look to the top. I always stare at my front wheel. Why? It doesn’t make the actual work easier but it makes it easier not to give up. I suppose its like staring at a clock. Time does feel slower. The mind will give up before the body. Ignorance is bliss.
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