Monday Advice

Here are a couple of Monday tips for you:

Do not weigh yourself on Mondays! This is purely for psychological reasons, but most people tend to do worse over the weekends than they do during the week. This is why we are doing our weigh-ins on Fridays, when you've had a chance to keep on track all week and stick to a good schedule of eating well and exercising. Weighing often tends to be discouraging because you want to see results right away. Weight-loss doesn't usually work like that. You may be the same exact weight, day after day for an entire week and then suddenly drop 2 pounds at the end of that week. This is especially true when you are building muscle. You may actually gain a couple of pounds while starting to exercise, but don't worry! It will make up for itself later and much more! So my advice is to take each day as it comes, work hard to stick to your goals, and once a week step on the scale to see how you are doing. Focus on how you feel, how your clothes are fitting, your energy levels.

Exercise on Mondays! Although Mondays are often the busiest and most stressful day of the week, do whatever you can to fit in exercise on this day. It can be too easy to put it off on Mondays and say you will for sure do it on Tuesday. Once you start with those excuses, it will become habit, and before you know it, it will be Thursday or Friday and you won't have gotten any exercise in. Set a precedence on Mondays by exercising and it will come easier on the following days. Even if you can only fit in half as much time as you do on other days, you will start your week feeling energized and proud of yourself for making exercise a priority and putting your wellness first!