{"id":5523,"date":"2015-11-16T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.movedaily.ca\/contact-us"},"modified":"2015-11-16T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T21:25:00","slug":"how-to-stick-with-your-exercise-progra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kelowna.website\/6\/exercise\/how-to-stick-with-your-exercise-progra\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO STICK WITH YOUR EXERCISE PROGRAM ONCE AND FOR ALL!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nHow many times has it been?<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n How many times has it been that you\u2019ve started an exercise program and diet? How many times have you been successful?  And how many times have you fallen off the wagon, gained weight and stopped going to the gym all together?<\/div>\n
\n What makes you think you can do it this time?<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n I want to tell you a story of a woman who tried everything.  In the past 6 years, I\u2019ve seen this woman try every fad diet, every new exercise program, and every weight loss gadget out there.  She\u2019s cleansed, she\u2019s wrapped, and she\u2019s gotten up at 5am for bootcamps. If she had stuck to any ONE of the multiple techniques she tried, she would have lost the weight she was hoping to lose.  Year after year, I would look again and see her joining a new bootcamp, trying the 17 Day Diet or the 21 Day Fix and setting her resolutions that this time would be it. Her friends and followers would cheer her on, and I would sit waiting for her fitness and diet posts to fade off into Margaritas and vacations in Mexico.  I too felt myself cheering for her, that perhaps THIS time it would really work. Maybe it will someday, and for her sake, I hope it does. <\/div>\n
\nFor someone who apparently wants it so bad, why can\u2019t this woman make a healthy lifestyle stick?<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n There could be a lot of reasons. Her expectations<\/strong> of how she wants her body to change may be too drastic<\/strong>, and therefore unattainable. Being overweight already she may have some physical obstacles<\/strong> that get in the way of her enduring the aggressive nature of a bootcamp. She may have some environmental obstacles<\/strong> such as no access to a gym, or no time in her day due to a career and family. Or, perhaps after trying and failing for years and years, she ultimately doesn\u2019t believe<\/strong> she can do it.<\/div>\n
\nWhy is belief in yourself so important?<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n Self-efficacy<\/em><\/strong> is one of the most consistent predictors of exercise adherence. That is, the extent to which an individual believes they are capable of carrying out a behavioural change, and increasing self-efficacy will lead to increasing self effort and time being devoted to the task!<\/em><\/div>\n
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\n How do I increase my belief in myself?<\/strong><\/div>\n
\nFirst of all, one of the ways you can start is by really believing in the thing you want to change! So, if you want to change your weight and you believe that it is an important, even vital thing to do, then I want you to start by convincing yourself of the positive outcomes of weight loss. Then, I want you to compare that to the cons of weight loss.  Take a sheet of paper and write pro\u2019s and con\u2019s at the top. Now, what would some pros of weight loss be? Well, you might say<\/div>\n
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