If you are finding it hard to incorporate exercise into your routine, have you thought about changing the routine?
Often times it is easier to restructure our day than to fit another thing into a program that was already full. Plus, this gets you out of all of those habits and routines that led to overeating in the first place.
Exercise is easy if it is a regular habit like anything else. But keep in mind that to create a new habit, we usually have to do it for around 30 days.
Your routine does not have to be exactly the same every single day. Most of us have a different routine on the weekend to a working day.
That's fine, but be sure to consider both of them. Don't focus on creating a routine for the week days and assume you can take the whole of the weekend off. Just create a different routine for the weekend, that still involves some exercise.
Often, just changing our routine in quite a simple way can make it much easier to introduce exercise into our day.
It may also show up some of the habits that we have formed over the years without even realizing it.
For example, you may find that you are now taking a different route to work because you go to the gym first. You're not walking past the donut shop every morning any more. You may feel stress levels rising as you approach your office, and you realize that you were using a daily donut to try to deal with this stress. Now you see what is going on, you can find a better way to handle stress, using relaxation methods or positive thinking.
Most of us have some foods that we think we cannot do without, but usually they are just a habit. On vacation in a foreign country you would probably eat completely different foods without ever missing those foods that seem essential at home. It's all about changing the routine.
