Developing the new you.

Adjusting to the you, you want to be.

It’s been one week into my 30-day challenge exercise for a flat tummy. It’s day 10 and i’m looking at the mirror and I’m already discouraged. It doesn’t look like anything is changing (swears). I hold my stomach and I’m disgusted by the extra fat I can pinch out. I grumble and get depressed about it. Sulking in my depression, I went to the fridge and picked up some junk. Glued to the TV, I devour the junk. And then this tiny mocking voice in my head tells me "you are so good at loosing this fat you know". I know exactly what it’s talking about. I turned off the TV and decided to chat with myself. "What exactly do I want?. To loose weight temporarily? Or to keep fit?". And I found my problem there.

A temporal change is not the same as forming habits. A temporal change makes you develop an intensified routine which you might deliver the routine of that goal without even getting a result sometimes.

Understanding what you want as an end result will make you develop systems that work.
After a 30-day marathon of exercising, I will most likely take a break and go back to the old me, through that I add more weight again.

“To change an old habit you have to find out how to replace the routine but still look forward to the same reward"

Expecting a reward has everything to do with your identity. What exactly do I want? To lose belly fat? Or keep fit?.

Habits are a life time commitment which demands consistency and not intensity.

Having a fit body should be my goal, which involves consistency at keeping fit; consistency at visiting the gym thrice a week for one year and not 30-days of the month and then lose out the rest of the year.
While being consistent at the identity I am aiming at (being fit), I will be building systems that will achieve my desired identity. And there was my problem. What I wanted - I wanted a flat stomach (temporary change) which is most likely to bloat when I stop the 30-day marathon (rolling my eyes) and that isn’t good. What I do need is a fit body.

I decided to build a system of eating in small proportions and drinking water alot while visiting the gym thrice a week to keep fit (my body is going through a trauma too, you know; it needs to rest - a healthy trauma).

Build systems that work. Make progress at them.