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Daily reminder: it’s okay if you have a bad day at the gym. It’s okay if you’re struggling to hit a deadlift that you flew through no problem the day before. It’s okay if you just can’t bring yourself to get enough motivation to workout. Be gentle with yourself. Progress is rarely consistent

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Bad days in the gym

Not all days will be good. It’s just an unfortunate fact of life.

We’ve all day those days in the gym – ones where no matter what you do, your lifts don’t go well and it’s so frustrating.

It’s so tempting to say “Screw it!”and walk out. I’ve done it multiple times. In the end, I still felt crappy. It’s like that workout beat me.

Take 10 lbs off the bar. Try again. Keep taking weight off until you can do it, and do it clean. The weight might be a little lighter that day, but you still put that work in, and that’s something that no one and no bad day can take away from you. You didn’t run toward your goal that day. You walked. Maybe you crawled. But you kept moving forward.

Keep going.

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This is so important

I tend to forget that weight loss can be relaxed. I don’t need to bust my ass at the gym 5 days a week, I can go swimming or do yoga or a YouTube video, I can go for a walk or go bouldering with friends. I don’t need to eat perfectly clean, who cares about a tiny donut? I got so much time, I don’t need to lose 5kg in a month. Obsessing over being perfectly healthy ain’t particularily healthy. Gotta remind myself once in a while.

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Cheat Days

I hear a lot of people talk about how they aren’t losing weight even though they’re dieting but most of the time it seems it’s because of their cheat days.

I personally have lost 50 pounds and not once have I had a planned cheat day. What I do instead is every once in a while I’ll have a treat but I’ll work it into my macros and it seems to work pretty well.

Don’t deprive yourself of what you want until your cheat day and then eat everything that you were waiting for. It’s okay to have unhealthy food every now and then, it doesn’t make you unhealthy.

(I also used to have a pretty bad eating disorder so working my diet this way has really helped so I don’t fall back into it. It’s a daily and conscious effort but it’s possible to lose weight in a healthy way after recovery)

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