You Go To Mom’s For Dinner And She’s Cooked Your Personal Favorite And Very Fattening Dishes – Tips To Avoid Social Undermining Of Our Health And Wellness Goals

Oftentimes it is not the normal ‘day to day’ challenges we face that can interfere with our goals, when we make the decision to work at making healthy lifestyle choices.

Reactions from family and friends decision to fight the excessive obesity or get in shape is often a very private and personal one. You’re getting ready to head out the door to the gym on a Sunday morning, and your spouse convinces you going out to brunch would’ve been this kind of a nice thing to do. I would like to ask you something. When your friends ask you to join them for Happy Hour, your plan is to hit the gym right after work?

Have you ever experienced any of these scenarios?

While telling you that you’ve done so well on your diet, you deserve a treat, out to dinner with a friend, she urges you to share the Brownie Delight for dessert.

You go to Mom’s for dinner, and she’s cooked your personal favorite and very fattening dishes. Also, she gonna be so insulted if you don’t indulge, and pick seconds. With that said, it feels as if everyone around us is doing best in order to sabotage our efforts, without meaning to. I’m sure you heard about this. We tell ourselves that we can make up the exercise at another time, or we’ll be diligent with our food choices tomorrow. That’s where it starts getting entertaining. Repeated often enough, we find we aren’t getting the results we’re after, frustration sets in, and we may even give up. Thought and planning, we can avoid the social undermining that otherwise will derail our health and wellness goals, with foresight. Well, it doesn’t have to be really like this. Let the important people in your lifetime know your intent to adopt healthier habits, and tell them how they can help.

Schedule your exercise sessions on your calendar and treat them as you should a business or doctor’s appointment.

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Explain how much you would like to participate that you have a previous engagement, when asked to join in activities that conflict with your fitness plan. Tell Mom in advance that you are doing best in order to eat healthy, and suggest she prepares a dish that works into your plan. You be the one to choose a place where you know you can make a healthy choice. You see, be proactive in avoiding social situations that might derail your goals. Meeting friends for dinner? Keep your wellness vision in your mind anytime, and be polite but firm about your decisions. Or skip an exercise session, politely remind them how important it’s to you, when friends or family tempt you to eat what you prefer not to.

Be flexible.

Keep in your mind that you can balance exercise and nutrition with the 80/20 principal.

There could be times when rearranging exercise sessions or eating in restaurants that are more challenging is unavoidable. As a result, your friends and family do need you to be successful and happy. While getting in shape, life satisfaction, and similar health related problems that can be affected by lifestyle changes, ellen Goldman created her company, EnerG coaching, LLC to problems such as weight reduction, stress management.