MindSense Health Coaching with Christal Peters  

I'm referring to a health nut here.

There are days when you are all gung ho - let's do this! Get up! Exercise! Eat healthy! Be positive! Live it!

These are the good days. You are excited and full of energy and want to share your great feelings and mood with everyone around you.

There are days when you are all grrr - I am so not there. Let me just sleep ten more minutes. I don't feel like working out. I want to eat a bag of chips. Blah.

These are the hard days and if you can stay motivated and pull yourself through these days you will really love the reward in the end and you will even feel good that you pushed yourself to at least be a little healthy. These are the days that you need to be accountable to your partner, friends, family or a health coach to help you stay on track.

One of the many negative things that we do is beat ourselves up for not being all gung ho every day. What we need to do instead, is be excited and happy when we are gung ho AND when we are having a blah day. If we learn to be ok that we did less but still maintained a degree of healthy living, we would in turn feel healthier than when we just let go completely and then berate ourselves for jumping headlong off the wagon.

Go out and be happy!

~Christal