So it’s been a week my lovalies . . .
I’ve trained . . .
I’ve eaten some good food (and just a little of the not so
good food) . . . nope, not gonna pretend Im flawless . . . just real, and tell
it like it is.
Do I beat myself up for having some crappy food, nope . . .
do I give a rats if others criticise me for it, nope (they are obviously people
with far too much time and far too few friends) . . .
But I know that YOU beat yourself up over the stumbles, and
I know YOU tend to write off the whole day if you had a bad morning – yes, I am
pointing at yoouuuu, (and pretending to hide behind a book when you’re reading a
blog aimed directly at you, isn’t going to help).
So today we are going to do a wee role-play, visualisation
styles thingy, to help you deal to temptation, where you are going to be all superhero, and deal to the bad
thoughts and actions with a deft karate chop, before powering off into the
sunset with buns of steel.
According to some
smarty-pants with a Doctorate in cartoonology somewhere, broad interpretations of the superhero genre include
characters with superhuman powers as well as masked vigilantes, who fight crime
with their wits, fists and guns, while concealing
their identities with only a mask, hat and coat.
For this
exercise you don’t necessarily need the mask, hat and coat – unless you want to
go all out - - - I know people that will be getting the Star Wars Light Sabres
out . . . it’s your roll play, you just choose whatever threads make you feel
all heroish. But at the very least, find
yourself something that will suffice for ‘Big Girl Knickers’ and stick em on.
Why Big Girl
Knickers (hereinafter to be referred to as BGK’s)? Because they are what you are going to pull
on, (literally or not), to put you in Battle Girl mode, to fight them nasty
health villains. They represent your
game face, your ‘Im gonna take you on and win’ attitude, your irrepressible health-villain
busting persona.
TO THE BATCAR
INSTRUCTIONS ROBIN (insert own name here)
#1: Put on your BGK’s.
Yes, over your
jeans – superheros wear their undies on the outside!
(What will determine
whether you are doing a role-play or a visualisation with this exercise, is
whether or not you actually put on the gruts and roll around on the floor
during the fight scenes, or whether you simply imagine them in your head).
#2: Determine what your health villains are (e.g cake hypnotising you until you gorge in
submission, busy-ness interrupting your plans to exercise, a bad morning that
you are going to let ruin your whole day . . . the list goes on)
#3: See your health villain in front of you,
taunting you the way it does . . . then kapow it, bam it, bruce-lee it, and wrestle it until it capitulates and runs off crying
#4: Pick yourself up and dust yourself off to dramatic movie styles music
#5: Go do your exercise, or bypass that cake or whatever
it is you can now do, because *drum roll please* - you have won, you have
beaten that demon, and you now know you can do it again and again.
So, anytime you
feel a health villain lurking – put your BGK’s on and fight for your right to a
healthy you – fly above the food, the time sappers, the ‘Ive had a bad morning’ – you can
rise to a healthier you, I know you can – I’ve seen you in the movies J
PS: So not to be not
getting anyones actual BGK's in a knot, the cartoon in our pic came from
herstorynetwork.com. Thanks peeps.
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