Smash your Comfort Zone, Get what you want.
Fitness Rehab (aka Food Therapy) is very simple in its structure, but I won’t kid you—it isn’t easy. It’s simple because I’m going to give you a very specific Master Food List to follow that will dramatically reduce the amount of sugar you’re taking in. More importantly, by following the Master Food List, you’ll be able to make your daily food choices without thinking about it. If it’s on the list, eat it. If it isn’t, don’t eat it.
Simple but not easy.
Now, maybe you have already noticed some seeds of doubt creeping into your head. Maybe that little voice inside your head is already backtracking, telling you that you can’t give up cheese for three weeks. Or you’re afraid that you won’t be able to go to work or lunch with your friends and resist temptation and find foods from the Master List. Or maybe you’re saying, “What do you mean, I can’t have half and half!” Easy, Trigger, I will walk you through it.
If you haven’t heard this voice yet, you will. There’s going to come a time in this program when you’re going to read something or be asked to do something, and the voice inside your head will answer, “I don’t believe that” or “That can’t be right.”
In order to reset your brain to fit eating, I’m asking you to just acknowledge that voice in your head as BS and push through. It’s the food autotape talking, and you can overcome it. The years of old ideas are like a wounded animal in the corner fighting for its life. Even if you don’t agree with something I tell you, just observe the voice in your head for the next three weeks, and commit to following my plan. It will work, you can do it, and it will change your life.
The program is designed to make you a little crazy within a solid structure so you can make it to the other side, where you will have control over your food choices, control over your body, and control over your fitness.
Part of what we’re fighting here is the realization that you’re about to step outside your comfort zone. And that can be scary. Really scary.
I submit to you that if there’s anything in your life that you desire that you do not already have, it’s because it lies outside your comfort zone. Maybe you’ve always wanted to learn Spanish but have been afraid it’s too hard, so you don’t take the classes. You’d love to become a great public speaker that can inspire and motivate audiences, but the fear of getting up in front of people keeps you from joining Toastmasters. You want to be the better salesman, the better parent, or the best lawyer or musician, but the fear of failure stops you from putting in the work and time. All of these things are outside your comfort zone.
What does being outside your comfort zone look like? Defensive, nervous, angry, with voices in your head creating perfectly good reasons why you should quit or deviate from the Master Food List.
Just know going into it that this is part of the journey. You have to smash your comfort zone to get what you want. In everything, not just fitness.
