In my experience when people focus on just one element they fairly easily accomplish the task…..However ,in a world of demanding fast and unrealistic results within impossible time frames common sense or one step at a time focus soon flies out of the window…..
If you are a new exerciser then a one step at a time approach is to focus simply on turning up and doing the sessions……don’t worry about what you do, how you do it, how hard you do it for or how long….the goal should be simply to show up….do something/anything….go home….when you do this enough you will eventually find you exercise automatically….at this point you can start focusing on other areas…..
If you are trying to change your eating a one step at a time approach means you focus on removing one food group until you have fairly easily worked it out of your diet without much effort, you can then move onto the 2nd one….
If you focus is on increasing healthy eating activities then add just one thing in, e.g. juicing and once this is consistent look to add another.
I have found people can handle easily enough about 2-4 things in total….if you focus on one exercise, one bad food reduction and one good health introduction of a behaviour you will go places……once comfortable then add another into that category….. any issues you have with a behaviour you can almost guarantee it is from introducing another rules/criteria….this progressive approach means over time you will be doing many many good health things but your mental focus was only ever on one step along that journey
If this sounds the slow way to results I suggest you take a bigger picture look…..95% of people fail….year after year….so to demand a level of results in a time frame (two things focused on not one!!!) you set yourself up for failure….statistically speaking you should be thanking your lucky stars you get your results (19 out of 20 never do) let alone concerning yourself if you did it in 4 months over 6 months….
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