Thursday, February 10, 2011
My thoughts.....
I completely understand what you are feeling and refferring too even though like you said the way Diana and I are doing it is rare. I feel like we have to rememeber the feeling we started with on day one of the challenge. We felt motivated and confident just thinking of the thought that we could set out on a "short" challenge and know what ever tempted us we could has ourselves "I CAN and WILL survive "X" number of days until this challenge is over. I think challenges like this go beyond the diet but work more at the cognitive level. My college coach made a comment that has stuck with me forever and applies well in this exact situation. He said when you set out on a predetermined workout or distance you commit 100% to finishing is because if you make that chocie to walk or cheat or find an easy out right when it gets hard, you have opened that "door" or option for every difficult situation you ever face and the will and strength to overcome that feeling gets harder each and every time. I can say I have defininetly learned this the hard way just like he said. I am sharing something I am not proud of at all.....but in a PAC 10 race in the 800 m (last event) my sophmore year was so overwhelmed with the erge to stop and I literally "fake" triped so that I didnt have to finish. Ex 2, in the 2008 Olympic trials I made to chocie after a horrific preformance to not run in the last event (again 800) and my coach goes Julie if you do this you will always look for the easy way out. After that experience I made a promise to myself that I would never again do this because I could now see how that erge to cheat or not finish got to be the WAY EASIER chocie with each situation. OK, sorry this turned into a very long story but I thought you might be curious as to way I am so rstrict and how I totally understand the feeling you are talking about......
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I think this is good and makes a very very good point to what I was saying to you yesterday. I don't think its too healthy to set out to be absolutely "perfect" per se the first time you do it because that can become so very difficult and overwhelming emotionally and can have the potential to really backfire and throw you the other way...as in not eating healthy at all and making a person give up and completely go anti on it. Most people cannot start out like you and your sister...but, that being said, you have had other experiences..like this running experiences..that have made you stronger and able to restrict things like you can now...its a process to get to that point and most, if any of us can get to it the first time they do something or set out to do something like this. thats why i think its important to set smaller goals or limits and each time you set a new goal...make it more "strict"...this slow build up keeps your sanity I think and will allow the behavior to change progressively and not be so hard mentally and emotionally on someone.
ReplyDeleteIm also just trying to figure out why I want to eat "badly" for essentially no reason at all...that was the main reason why I posted what I posted...and our class makes me think so much more..lol
we kinda touched on this last night too in class that athletes and increasing performance..its a whole set of different behaviors and skills for people...we are motivated differently too. i bet if we were to try and 100% do something that is not performance or nutrition related and see how well we do at it..or even how much we care about that...somethign that matters less to us may be harder to do with 100% restriction??
ReplyDeleteI completely 100% agree you have to tailor something different for other people and have relaxed days. :)
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