Summer Reminder

I just returned from being with clients in California. It’s very funny to me as I hear the same complaints there as I do in New York.

“Why can’t we just eat what we want whenever we want it and not worry after we ate it. It’s just so unfair”!!!!!!

I tell my clients all over the world the same thing…..

You CAN eat what you want ON YOUR CHEAT DAY!

When your day or night gets challenging you need to constantly remind yourself:

1 – What is important to you.

2 – Whether you are trying to lose weight or not – you still can’t eat whatever you want.

3- Don’t make deals with yourself – I will just eat this and then I will be back on 100% and move forward. I will be fine.

* You will only be fine until of course you step on the scale and then you are no longer fine. In fact, you are miserable.

I know first hand so many are already done over indulging in summer fun. I must have had a hundred clients reach out to me this past weekend saying “help I am out of control”. And with vacations around the corner I think for many it has set in that you can’t continue on this path of self destruction nor do you want to. What is the path of self destruction? For some, it’s treating everyday like a cheat day, for others it’s indulging the entire weekend instead of just one day. And quite honestly for many it’s just overdoing it a little too much. Too much healthy foods can even be enough to make the scale move in the wrong direction. Of course it doesn’t move as much as a person that is cheating everyday, but it moves enough to make you uncomfortable.

The most important thing to do right now is just go back on program. A couple of clients that I haven’t heard from in a while emailed me and told me they were embarrassed to reach out to me. That’s ridiculous. Never ever feel embarrassed. There is no guilt to be had or shame to be felt. It happens to everyone – even the sharks and the snails. If it happened to you then just reach out to me or get back on track 110% today and send me your weight the morning of your next cheat day. There is never any judgement. No questions asked. I will never ask where you were, or what did you. I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly! The only thing that matters to me is where you go from here.

On another very important note – Stop being so hard on yourself. It’s summer, you work hard all year to look and feel good and be healthy. It’s okay if you over did it a little here and there. No one is perfect all the time. What matters is what you do after. It’s never too late. Simply get back on your program and keep moving in a positive direction because that will make all the difference in how you look and feel for the remainder of your summer and how you enter into fall. There will always be times that you can be amazing – and times where you fall off the path. Life is hard, and weight loss is hard, but when you keep doing the right things it makes the hard times easier and much more enjoyable.

It’s never easy – but it’s always worth it.

~ Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick

Innovation Weight Loss and Fitness

8031 Jericho Tpke Woodbury, NY 11797

469 7th Ave Manhattan, NY 10018