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Its all about INTEGRITY
So, a good result this week. I think my sharing on here does keep me accountable to myself as well as you. I guess I hope that what I have learnt as a personal coach may assist you with your goals. As a coach, I too have struggled with my weight but now it is time to really apply my skills to myself - a bit like practicing what I preach??
I have really embraced having integrity (giving my word) around my eating again this week. As I shared last week, I created having no more that 2000cals per day and I committed to doing 3 x 1 hour cardio sessions for the week - which I did. I kept my word to myself and you guys. Doing this has me feel empowered around doing it again this week :-)
Reflecting on the week past. At the bottom of my last post, I put that sharing my goals for the week with this online community "brings my goals into existence and has me be accountable to you guys". It also has me be accountable to myself. Integrity, in its simplest form is "being/giving your word". It is also about "workability". Plan your work, work your plan. Not sticking to the plan is a breakdown in integrity. Consider not following the plans for the foundations of a multi-store building. The consequences are that the building will fall.
Without integrity, nothing works. To have a meal plan and not follow it, is a breakdown in integrity. To give your word and not fulfil on that is a breakdown in integrity. A messy desk has no workability - it's a breakdown in integrity. Being late for work, late to appointments, late to a friends party, not sticking to your food plan, etc etc - it's all a breakdown around integrity.
It's not bad or wrong, life happens and sometimes we have no control over that. But breakdowns around integrity impact our results and what we are committed to and it's the breakdowns where we have control that disempower us because we know we are accountable despite the reasons and justifications we have for why it didn't work. It's not about good or bad, right or wrong. It's not about judging and it's not about allocating blame. God knows there is enough judging and blaming in our lives as it is.
But consider that when there is a breakdown around integrity, there is a loss of power. We feel disempowered. Didn't follow our diet or exercise plan, felt awful - experience loss of power, gets too hard, give up! Late to an appointment, walk in late, client/boss is annoyed, you are on the back foot so you feel like you have hold back, you experience a loss of power, meeting is a waste of time because it didn't go the way you wanted. Late to pick up your partner for a date or late home from work, they are annoyed, your night out/in is strained, you spend your time trying to make it up to them, any chance of intimacy goes out the window, miserable night all round. Sound familiar?
I have been there and done this too, that's why I am sharing this. But for me personally, I am really present to my lack of integrity and responsibility in the past around my weight and health. It's not consistent with who I am as a person or what I want to achieve around my weight.
My commitment to you this week
I will stay under 2000 calories for each day ending Monday night.
I will weigh in Tuesday morning
I will complete 4 x 45 cardio/walking sessions
I will complete 4 x 2k rowing sessions
I will move my bench press inside the home where I can actually use it.
I will schedule these activities into my diary (workability)
Thank you for letting me share. Writing this down brings my commitment into existence and has me be accountable to you
Wendy
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111.8 kg
Lost so far: 10.8 kg.
Still to go: 21.8 kg.
Diet followed: 100%.
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Losing 1.2 kg a Week
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