Dealing with Monday's and Weekends
Good morning everybody. So that's the first weekend of the challenge complete. And I know for a fact some of you would have had a perfect weekend. You'd have got your workouts in, steps, you'd have eaten well, you'd have had no alcohol and you'd felt you'd be feeling really great today for week two. Some of you have been in the middle maybe, had a few drinks and all that, didn't do exactly what you wanted to do.
Speaker 1:And there's some of you who would have gone out on the weekend and, you know, your plans would have gone for healthy eating and stuff out the window. You'd have had too many drinks. We woke up with a hang over, not really ate healthily, didn't meal prep on a Sunday, missed a few sessions, and not feeling too good right now in terms of energy levels or just in general. Now what I wanna tell you all is forget about it. Even if you had a class weekend or a bad one, today is a new day, and it doesn't matter what you did in the weekend.
Speaker 1:And because this is real life for some of you having a perfect weekend, you have them. Sometimes you have the really bad ones where you do, you know, over drink. And they're they're they're fine as long as we learn from them. Okay? So that's why I wanna get the point across because I wanna watch the rugby on Saturday, decided to drink Guinness because my friends were drinking it.
Speaker 1:This is Ireland whale, so I go, I'll drink Guinness. I had, like, maybe five pints throughout two games, so throughout the day, and it floored me. Like, I was sleeping by half eight or nine home, and I woke up the next day feeling a bit terrible, groggy, and, you know, I didn't buy anything before to have my fridge, and I had no fruits in my fridge and water and stuff like that. And I had the thought, well, I could just order something in because need food. And that's exactly the trap you fall into.
Speaker 1:And I thought, no, no, no, no. Let me hold on. Let me get a shower. I'll feel better. I'll walk to the shop and I'll go and get some fruits and veggies and I'll meal prep.
Speaker 1:And if it's if that's the only thing I do today, just meal prep, I'll be happy. I'm not gonna do the steps. I'm not gonna get my workout in. I'm not gonna do as much reading as I usually do. I'm just gonna get my meal prep done.
Speaker 1:That's a successful day and I'll learn from it. I can't handle five, six pounds of kidneys, guys. I can't do it. I'm getting old. I'm not really old, but you know, I'm not the 21 year old self.
Speaker 1:So that's what I take from the weekend. I'm not gonna sulk about it. I wasn't sulking on a Sunday about it. I wasn't, my god, why did I drink? Oh, fuck.
Speaker 1:What? I'm I'm not gonna fight myself about it. It happened. I'm a human being. Get on with it.
Speaker 1:Same as you today. Did have a class weekend? Cool. Let's get on with the Monday twenty four hours ahead. What are gonna do with it?
Speaker 1:If you had a terrible one, get let's get on with it. What are you gonna do today? What's your one big thing? Get your steps in. You know, there's no time to dwell.
Speaker 1:You're just gonna waste your present moment in dwelling over the past, which isn't even that bad. So my message is that today, the weekends are part of our lives. We have to learn to live with them, and we have to accept actually that you're never gonna have these perfect, like, weekends in your head that you are just like we live in delusion. We have these weekends in our head, I'm gonna do this perfect law. There's so many different social pressures, plans, change of plans, people, scenarios that pop up and weekends.
Speaker 1:You can't control what comes your way. Of course, you can control how you respond. But at the same time, if you're going for a few drinks, you'll you will be impairing your decision making skills. You will make you know, you're not gonna be thinking 100% straight and stuff. So you will end up going, I'll have a few more.
Speaker 1:I'll eat this and that. That's fine. But this is the self awareness of this happening is the important part. Self awareness is really important here. Then you tweak it.
Speaker 1:The next time you go, okay, maybe I don't have how many drinks. So maybe I make sure my fridge is full of nice, healthy foods that I can eat a lot of is low in calorie for the next day. Does that make sense? Maybe I'll meal prep all my Sunday meals on a Saturday, so at least I know if things do not go to plan tonight and I do over drink and stuff, then at least I go that. What I'm saying?
Speaker 1:And that's how we deal with weekends. Because in reality, you'd have to eat about 12 calories in one day to gain three pounds of fat. I saw this post in the group last week saying, I've done well all week. I've been losing weight and then I ate out and then I've gained three pounds overnight. I wanna quit, near quit, this always happens.
Speaker 1:Now, I commented about the quote that Epictetus says, the philosopher two thousand years ago, and he was like, we have to question these first impressions. Like we have to work from facts, guys. We can't work from these fake news. The fake news is you've gained three pounds of fat. So we need to be more specific.
Speaker 1:You can say, wow, I've gained three pounds of water since yesterday. Okay? Right? Your gay your your goal is fat loss. Right?
Speaker 1:So doesn't matter if your water weight goes up and down because it does. Your weight your daily weight fluctuations are not in your control. They go up and down at random. You can have the perfect macro day today and then go up tomorrow. You know, we we can know a few things about it like salt intake.
Speaker 1:That's exactly what happens when you eat out in restaurants, a lot of salt and oily stuff, and they will cause a stress, menstrual cycle. There's there's loads of factors. There's not even a point thinking of what factor is because we can't pinpoint it to this specific one. What we can say is my weight is gonna go up and down every single day, and it's the weekly average on the matters for me. I'm not gonna worry about it.
Speaker 1:I'm not and I'm specifically and especially not gonna make one daily weigh in ruin my journey of trying to improve myself and build this new lifestyle. Because that person that did a comment would have potentially could have quit. Right? And had lost out in all the other benefits, the community, the mental health, mindset, nutrition, information. Right?
Speaker 1:Turtle radio, all these like parts of the community just miss think about it, missing that out because the scale said you've gained three pounds of water. Now that does not it's not you haven't gained fat. So let's work from the facts. And this what Epitito's talking about. You have to question these first impressions like you can't let yourself run away and catastrophize because it can cause you to do decisions like that to quit.
Speaker 1:If his story was back in the day they had the coins of the denarii and every time someone would trade Denaris, they would, like, check them, they would knock them, they'd make sounds of them, they'd knock them together, drop them, throw away them. You know, they do all these tests, they'd have these really good eye for the knowing if the coin was right or not. And he's like, you know, we're willing to do that for money and brands and if that's our real Chanel bag or no? But when it comes to our thoughts and our first impressions, we're willing to let our mind take the first thing that pops into our head and run run like the wind as far with it as possible and cause all sorts of problems and mayhem. We're willing to do that.
Speaker 1:So to make it a habit, I feel like our first impressions, our first thoughts about something, and it's these can happen automatically. These happen automatically. And it's not it's not about them not happening. It's about how we handle them. So you're all you're all gonna have these thoughts today about the weekend.
Speaker 1:Should have been this, have been that. Just don't do it. Don't let her run away. If that thought pops into your head, oh, I had five drinks. That's fine.
Speaker 1:Just don't let her turn into, oh, five drinks. I'm such an idiot. Why do I do this? I hate myself. That's then a choice to say those things.
Speaker 1:But you might still have the choice that that initial thought comes in the end that you did that do this in the weekend and now you you didn't wanna do it. Does that make sense? You need to think about these things because this is where the power's at in this this lifestyle journey. Because you can be perfect Monday to Friday, but if you can't handle and, you know, stop letting these catastrophizing thoughts run away, all the good work you ever do will always be brought on by these thoughts because they're so powerful and so negative. They can downward spiral.
Speaker 1:They can paralyze you. They can stop you to do it taking a positive action. Just do what you can. If you're hungover, that's fine. Recover.
Speaker 1:We go again today. We go again today. And that's all I wanted you guys to take from this. It's a Monday. Some of you are gonna be flying off the races because you are you did a weekend, you didn't drink, you feel awesome.
Speaker 1:Some of you are gonna be lower. But we all ourselves up, all of us. Go in the groups in WhatsApp or how'd your weekend be great. Don't don't be don't be envious of someone's had a perfect weekend and it's feeling fresh today because they're gonna have one of the weekends you just had. Right?
Speaker 1:This this works both ways. We never go, oh, I'm so glad. Go, okay. Cool. You've all seen a tracker.
Speaker 1:I need to do it. And we need to pick ourselves up and not let each other be at least kind of like pull each other down. Don't compare you again to others like, oh, I'm a loser because I didn't do everything and someone else is smashing it. We're all gonna come up, we're all gonna have ups and downs, ups and downs. This is just part of the journey.
Speaker 1:But this is the exciting part. We're learning to live with it. We're not learning to run away from it. Like most fitness professionals will tell you, like, oh, don't do this. We're doing it on weekends and stop doing this, stop doing that.
Speaker 1:And you need to change everything. It's like, the reality is weekends are our time. We're not working. That's how the world is set up. We work Monday to Friday and we have the weekends off.
Speaker 1:Most of the time for most people that's the case. Like, it's the time to speak to our friends and de stress and do fun things that we don't have time to do in the week. That's just a fact. And with that fact comes opportunities to overindulge in eating and drinking. That's another fact.
Speaker 1:And another fact is, as humans, we are greedy. We're a bit, you know, we we love eating. We sometimes we do too much. Sometimes we wanna please other people and we wanna go down the route of, yeah, I'll come out and drink and, you know, you don't really want to but you do it. That's another fact.
Speaker 1:So these are facts that you're gonna have to live with is how we deal with the facts. Not, oh, I wish I never did it, but you did. So we need to work with the fact that you did overdrive, you did overeat, and it doesn't make you a bad person. Right? It doesn't make you a bad person, but it's your choice if you wanna take that and make it a huge thing or not.
Speaker 1:That's your decision. And I'm telling you, the power is why you don't make that a huge thing and you focus on what you can do right now. Because if you can do that, that's how you change your life. You can't dwell. So there's no dwelling today, guys.
Speaker 1:Please don't dwell. Enjoy your day. Do your one big thing. Plan your sesh. Go do a session.
Speaker 1:Do what you can today. You might be still a two day hangover. Okay. It's fine. What can you do today?
Speaker 1:That's where the power's at. We can't be dwellers. We need to make the most of today, the present moment. So please, please, please, please take this advice and implement it today. And that's really all I gotta say.
Speaker 1:We've got another beautiful week coming up, week two. Hopefully, you're all enjoying the challenge so far. If people have joined late and are still feeling under under pressure, you can message me. Please do the planning session. But look, we got another nine weeks, guys.
Speaker 1:Nine full weeks. Some people mindsets of changing days. Think about what we can do in nine weeks. Some of you might not even started the plan yet. Don't worry, everything's on record, you get it for life, but maybe it's time to start implementing today.
Speaker 1:So without further ado, we now go and enjoy today, make the most of it, get your steps in, drink your water, Hit your protein. Have fun with it. Have fun with it. Don't dwell on the weekend. Happy days is gone.
Speaker 1:What are we gonna do today? And please let me know if any of this resonates and if if you had a bad weekend or a good weekend. I wanna see a mix of people's weekends and how they've gone into this day day today. And, yeah, I wanna see do a do a few posts, and we'll we'll have a chat. So, guys, speak to you all later on Turtle Radio if listening to this in the morning or tomorrow.
