{"id":1125,"date":"2015-01-16T07:10:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katemartinmentor.com\/fatloss\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2015-01-16T07:10:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:10:23","slug":"me-fat-vs-now-how-i-used-to-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katemartinmentor.com\/fatloss\/2015\/01\/16\/me-fat-vs-now-how-i-used-to-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Me Fat vs. Now &#8211; How I used to think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My aim with this post is to help you shorten your pain and frustration if you are in any,<\/p>\n<p>while you are trying to &#8216;get healthy&#8217; or &#8216;lose weight&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go;<\/p>\n<p>As soon as my eyes were open in the morning\u00a0this is what Id&#8217; think;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>THEN:<\/strong> I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m this fat, I should know what to do to change, I&#8217;m a personal trainer \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>insert picture here of someone squeezing their fat and having a very sad face \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NOW:<\/strong> I am so grateful for this little healthy girl who&#8217;s just woken me up&#8230; and I&#8217;m also grateful for&#8230; x, y, z. (the list changes daily) &#8211; Sometimes I still have to fight off the habit off squeezing any fat and saying negative things to myself, but I&#8217;m definitely winning that war. Distraction is a great thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NO I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m fat, but see how we all do our own heads in with this talk? &#8211; I&#8217;m similar to you, we are all a work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>THEN:<\/strong> It doesn&#8217;t matter that I eat this packet of raw cookie dough as I&#8217;m fat anyway and completely bored with my life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NOW:<\/strong> I&#8217;m conscious of what I&#8217;m eating. I mostly follow &#8216;paleo&#8217; eating (I have done for approx 12 years) although I sometimes add carbs like sweet potato, potato and some rice. Most importantly I&#8217;m mindful &#8211; and present, while I&#8217;m eating it&#8230; even when I do overdose on the odd family block of Kit Kat or Potato cakes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See, I still have treats (or eat off the plan), often several times each week but it doesn&#8217;t happen as often as it used to &#8211; plus it makes me feel sick which is a real deterrent. And I just want to add, I don&#8217;t sit there and put myself down while I&#8217;m doing it, I enjoy it. I now think, oh well, this might disrupt my sleep and I&#8217;m going to feel a little &#8216;hung over&#8217; from the food tomorrow so I just know that&#8217;s going to happen and the world won&#8217;t end (I also try not to make major life changing decisions on these days haha &#8211; as that&#8217;s how I ended up in Melbourne, coming from Sydney. I made a tired decision, long funny story that one).<\/p>\n<p><strong>OH ALSO A Damage Control Supplement Tip:<\/strong> I also take 2-3 fish oil (or borage seed oil) capsules immediately afterwards, AND 1 Green Tea capsule, so my blood sugar doesn&#8217;t spike too high and then crash (which leads to the growth of more fat cells, one feeling more &#8216;crap&#8217; for want of a better technical term and not to mention a damaged pancreas).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>THEN:<\/strong> Just do functional exercise as it uses your whole body at once for more of a fat burning effect, and it&#8217;s great for stability and strength.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NOW:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve realised the more full body circuit \/ running \/ long cardio workouts I do, the tired-er I get. (This has only effected me post baby I might add, which is why I sometimes like to take it out of mumma&#8217;s weekly exercise routines when they are my clients). I&#8217;m not saying don&#8217;t EVER do them, I&#8217;m just saying listen to your body, it knows and maybe there&#8217;s no need to bash it into being how you want it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>THEN:<\/strong> Who&#8217;s body is this?? I hate it!!&#8230; (I used to run into things with my hips for the first little while after I had my daughter, then I got used to being bigger &#8211; which was depressing in itself).\u00a0I completely disrespected myself and I thought that if I bashed myself up enough that would lead to me finally getting my size 10 body back post baby. But 4 Years after having her I was still close to 90 kg and a size 16-18 \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NOW:<\/strong> I&#8217;m stuck with this body for life, I will nourish it, respect it and damn well get it to do what I want by working with it, not pushing against it. Rather I need to\u00a0develop patience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really had to let go of what I knew to be &#8216;the best way&#8217; of exercising and eating and I had to try new things \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It also helps that I have dived into, and I am incredibly grateful for, my work and the ability or career choice of making my life about helping other people, as soppy as that sounds. There&#8217;s nothing (that I&#8217;ve found) to be as effective to make you forget about your troubles as contributing to others and being around other people. So maybe you could get a cause bigger than yourself?<\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed explanation of my post baby weight loss story, <a title=\"My Personal Journey of Weight Loss Post Baby\" href=\"http:\/\/www.katemartinmentor.com\/fatloss\/2014\/09\/04\/my-personal-journey-of-weight-loss-post-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to have a look at these videos I made here.<\/a> They pretty much bare all.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you are not on a weight loss journey, maybe you are just on a &#8216;learn a new skill&#8217; journey&#8230; I hope you can get something out of my story. I know I learnt to try new things rather than pushing crap up hill, so to speak.. by repeating old methods, day in day out, even though they weren&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>One simple example was that I had been exercising longer instead of smarter&#8230; To the detriment of my body as I got very,\u00a0 very tired, (and all you mums out there know you can&#8217;t afford to work, run a house and have a sleep in the middle of the day).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"My Personal Journey of Weight Loss Post Baby\" href=\"http:\/\/www.katemartinmentor.com\/fatloss\/2014\/09\/04\/my-personal-journey-of-weight-loss-post-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the link to my post baby weight loss videos again.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For now, stop bashing yourself. Love yourself instead. 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