What If You Get Bored of Health & Fitness?
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Speaker 1:Remember, all it takes is one day at a time. Good morning you nutters, let's talk about something serious now. Right, so when you're on your fitness journey and you're on your health and fitness journey, your training, your nutrition, it is going to get boring so instead of thinking that the journey has to be something that you have to be enjoying the foods you eat all the time, you have to be loving the training, that's not how it works if you've got those expectations you're always gonna quit because you're gonna hit a day or a week or a month and you're gonna go, oh it's so boring like do I have to, am I just meal prepping, oh I'm sitting the same like doing these foods to hit my protein target, yeah The benefits of doing that are so much greater than the little satisfaction of being able to mix things up all the time. It's a lot easier for you if you're like, my protein goal is this. I know if I hit these foods, hit my protein goal.
Speaker 1:You have your meals out and enjoy them, have your weekends and eat out and enjoy those meals but don't expect like don't think it's a failure because it's getting boring. There's an interview with Cristiano Ronaldo, and he said his life is boring. He was like, look, I go big nights with the fans scoring goal stadiums, but nobody sees the rest of it. Nobody sees the 99% of the time when I'm it's boring. I'm just training, kicking a ball, quiet solitude life, training to be the best.
Speaker 1:And all the sports people have got the exact same mentality. LeBron not LeBron James. What's his name? The one that died. Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1:He was saying someone asked to go and watch him train. Right? And he was literally just repeating the basic moves over and over for like three hours while I was training and a journalist where I was like, is that what you're He goes, yeah, I'm the best because I do the basics day in day out, right? So if you want to be exceptional at something, we all should be aiming to be exceptional at eating nutritious foods and eating the foods we need to reach our goals, it's going to get a bit boring. And I think that's fine.
Speaker 1:Honestly it is if you can if you like a select few meals you know they're good macros eat them it's the result we're after right and the result is healthier, optimizing our health, leaner which is health benefits most people to lose weight. There's a lot of benefits to it so don't place variation on what people think of your diet above the beneficial aspects of it right. So it's very important to realize that. And the second point for today's voice note is to discuss so I think it was, read it in a book Alain de Botton's book on self knowledge and he says something along the lines of, insomnia is thoughts that haven't been dealt with in the day, right, and I've always thought something like this is true and not in this exact sense but I've always thought if you go to bed every night knowing that one, you've left things on the table that day, two, you don't really know where you are at that, you didn't start your day off with a plan, you didn't finish your day off reflection. When that head hits the pillow, there's those things in the back of your mind knowing, I didn't track what I ate, I just don't know what I ate today.
Speaker 1:You just know that it's over what you meant to because you're on track that you don't bother doing it. You didn't train, You didn't didn't at your steps. You didn't do a one big thing. You didn't kind of do a task thing. And it it eats away at you when you go to you have terrible sleep.
Speaker 1:You wake up the next day, you're frustrated. You just you start annoying you start being annoyed at yourself. Right? So, you know, we got our journals coming out soon. When you start your day off with intention, you start your day off, you you list you you got your time schedule, your day schedule, got your one big thing.
Speaker 1:You've got two stoic questions to answer to make sure you're on track. I need to do the evening reflection as well. But it is important that you understand that if you don't track things like anything, if you don't know where you are in anything, work, whatever, you're always gonna go to bed in the night slightly confused and slightly annoyed that you just kind of don't know where you stand. And when you don't know how how many of us hate not knowing when we stand? It's one of the worst feelings in the world.
Speaker 1:We don't where we we don't know where we stand in jobs, our job role or in our relationships or in like when we apply for a job or like whatever it is, it's like one of the most confusing annoying places to be and you can stop that health and fitness because you can track what you're eating and it doesn't take that much of time per day. I know social media is a track is bad. Track is only bad when you make it bad, when you put the bad to it. Tracking in itself is not bad. It's just a way to measure what you're eating.
Speaker 1:You're gonna eat anyway. You're gonna think about what you eat anyway. There's always a pros and cons, but there's always we're gonna think about eating, we're gonna decide to eat and we can put it into an app within seconds and then happy days at least we know it's down right and it's recorded that's important. Moving on to the app, our new macros app should be ready in about a week and a half two weeks And I've been using it now for about three, four weeks and I've lost about seven or eight pounds I'd say now. And I really, know, to be fair, I've really struggled to drop body fat in the last good few years.
Speaker 1:Like I've had a set point in my weight, I've been eating a decent amount of food and me going out, I've been eating out, I've been tracking but not I've been been loose with it. And my set point has always been higher. And I felt like that, like I wasn't 100% track and I hated using my fitness pal. And I'd always go to sleep like knowing, where was I today? Where was I?
Speaker 1:I'm in a deficit, I'm in a surplus. And it just slowly and slowly you realize you're going further and further away from where you wanna be. But using the app, this is the important thing about the app. Because it's so easy and nice to use. It's so beautiful to use.
Speaker 1:The user interface is so just there. You can just get it on a glance. It makes me wanna use it and I enjoy using it. And it's the same feeling I had when I first bought a MacBook when I was like, 17, 18, like, or, 16, 17. Like, I was using Windows PCs and was trying learn how do websites and stuff, and then I hated the Windows clunkiness.
Speaker 1:I just hated it. I didn't wanna do it. Had no motivation. As soon as I got my new Mac, it so pretty and beautiful and easy to use. I was using it all the time.
Speaker 1:The tool was so nice to use. I wanted to do work on it. And that's the feeling I want people to have when they use our app that they're using it and it's so nice and easy and friendly to use. It's not intimidating and it's giving you answers you need and you put in you you spend in a few minutes a day in there and it's giving you so much value back that enjoying the process, gamifying the process and in the results are just extraordinary when you actually you're able to track and the apps tell you to reduce and increase automatically based on your data. It's amazing, right?
Speaker 1:So it's kind of that, it's the cognitive load removal. You're not thinking too much of all these things. You just track and you just put it in and the app is doing the work for you and it's easy to use. And cognitive load is a very, very important point about health and fitness. Now many people talk about it, but the cognitive load of always trying to think of what they would eat every day or why you should be eating, what time you should be eating, how many meals you should be having, when should you train, what's good and bad, all that stuff just loads your brain.
Speaker 1:You've gone not you haven't got enough mental energy left for the rest of your day. Work goes down the pan, your friendships race is going down pattern, you're always thinking about stuff. We need to remove it, we need to make this health and fitness part of our lives so like light that when you do it it's so simple and light and effective that you can then re channel all your energy into the things that really matter that need your energy and that's when you start feeling more fulfilled and happy content, right. And this app is coming and you're all gonna be using it and all gonna be loving it of course 100%. But just think about getting into the zone now about stop, stop going to bed every day with the feeling that you're leaving things on the table because it builds up.
Speaker 1:So starting today, do what you can, get your steps in, plan your day ahead, watch your one big thing, hit your macros, get your work good in the morning guys if you can, morning work is better, clear your mind for the day, do a work task list as well. Spend minimal time on social media, right, don't endlessly scroll because it really annoys you and it makes you irritated after a while and get some good knowledge in your mind. Read a book, listen to podcasts, audiobook, get that in you. If you're on Turkey membership, we're doing think like a monk as the book club. We're starting it this week.
Speaker 1:We'd read to page 40 by Thursday, and we'd be chatting about that book. I've already started reading this really good so far. But, yeah, hopefully that was helpful. Don't worry about being boring. Track your macros.
Speaker 1:What's your one big thing? These consistencies every day is what makes a difference. If these are the things that made the best athletes in the world, they can make you they can turn you into a, you know, a healthy healthy person that can has got control of their nutrition and and health. That's just a fact. And don't be derailed by other people saying, no, you shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 1:They haven't got clue, guys. They honestly they're very misinformed. Don't start listening to people who've read one blog post on some random website or an Instagram post by some influencers. No clue. And I'll leave you with that.
Speaker 1:Let me know your one big thing is and make sure to get that done as the first thing today and build up that daily momentum because it's all about daily momentum every single day, one day at a time. And that's it. Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Golf Leer. Hopefully, you understood something I said. I hope that some wisdom kind of distilled through into your mind, and I want you to now action it today.
Speaker 1:I don't want you to think about tomorrow. I don't want you to think about yesterday. I don't want you to think about leaving a review on this podcast. I don't want you to think about going to another website. What I want you to do is as soon as this podcast ends, you will take action and make the most of today.
Speaker 1:Ground yourself today. Follow the one day at a time philosophy, and your life will change.
