I have been putting off this weeks blog post because I am bummed that I gained 2 lbs. back.
I said I was going to blog every week so here I am. I will blog the good weeks, and I will also blog the "room for improvement" weeks.
The bottom line for my gain back was complacency. I have been doing well overall, so I just got complacent and lost much of my intensity. My late snacking slipped back in and I did not walk as much as I have been.
I still have a long way to go to get to 103 and as I stated earlier, this is Round 3 and this is the LAST round! I am doing it this time so I need to pick myself up from these here "room for improvement" weeks and get back kicking the tires and lighting the fires!
I am thinking about two things this week to help me get fired up. I have been thinking about the Ice Axe metaphor that I came up with and blogged about in Round 2, and I have been thinking about Dave Ramsey's Gazelle Intensity metaphor.
In my Ice Axe metaphor I talked about how an ice climber carries and ice ax and if they begin to slip down the ice, they jam the ice ax into the side of the of the glacier to slow and eventually stop their descent and then they get back to climbing. They know they are going to slip from time to time but they are prepared so that they don't slip all the way back to the bottom, but rather, slow then stop their descent and, Bob's your uncle, they get right back to heading up the glacier.
We can do that too with our goals. We know that we will not be perfect and we will likely slip up from time to time. We don't have to slip all the way to the bottom, rather we too can make the decision to be prepared and think of ways of stopping our descent and getting back on track again.
Dave Ramsey likes to use the metaphor of Gazelle Intensity. The cheetah is the fastest animal on earth and can accelerate at break neck speeds and reach the top speed of 70 to 75 mph. Cheetahs love to chase and eat gazelles, but even though the cheetah is much much faster than the gazelle, the gazelle gets away safely most of the time. That is because the gazelle is running for its life and zigs and zags until the cheetah gets tired and gives up. The gazelle is running and strategizing with such intensity, that it literally outruns the fastest animal on the planet. That is intensity!
We need to get ourselves that intense about our goals too. We need to out think the barriers that get in our way, persevere and be standing at the end after we have achieved our goals! I am going back to being gazelle intense about losing these 103 lbs and you need to get gazelle intense about your goals too.
Take away for this week: Pull out the ice axe when you realize your are slipping and instead of beating yourself up and giving up, stop your descent and get back on track and don't forget to be gazelle intense!
Have a great week!
Scuba
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