What a great start to 2010 we had this past month. 

We put the lazy holiday syndrome behind us, got back on our routine track, and continued moving in the direction we desire- towards our goals.  That also tells me that "WOW! January 2010 is over.  Gone.  Always moving forward, everyday, we are, whether we like it or not, time is passing!"  Not to scare us or threaten us at all, but this is more of a wake up call.  "Good morning, this is the front desk of your life calling to tell you to GET UP and DO IT!  You have a very important meeting today with the rest of your life, WAKE UP!"  Are you setting goals every year that you haven't gotten closer to because you haven't changed your routine.  We can't afford to do the surface work anymore.  We need to get underneath.  That's where things change.  Most don't want to look on the inside, it's uncomfortable, it's the truth, and it can be embarrassing.  We don't want to admit things to ourselves that are not so flattering, yet very true, and keeping us from changing and getting to our goals.  

  One of the biggest, toughest challenges in Boot Camp is nutrition.  Actually making a change in your diet.  Not going on a diet, just changing your diet to eat smarter.  This means that just listening to your trainer talk about what you should be doing is not going to cut it.  If you show up every week and listen to the nutrition talk and go home and continue to eat the same, well, you will look the same every week.  On week one, when we say to begin food journaling and figuring out your calorie count, it means BEGIN FOOD JOURNALING AND FIGURE OUT YOUR CALORIE COUNT!  I've told every incoming class during the first week of nutrition please start to journal and get your calorie number because if you don't, next week when we talk again, you will have wasted one week where you could have been losing weight.  Many, and MOST come back not having even figured out their number, then say to me and the scale "I've been working out so much more, why haven't I lost weight??"  "Are you food journaling?"  I say.  You can guess the answer.  People, we wouldn't be telling you to do this if we didn't know it works.  You've got to change your nutrition if you want to change your body.  This takes getting underneath, to the uncomfortable, and to the truth.  Our weaknesses in nutrition, our habits with food, and all the empty calories, we ignore.  The ones that if we don't mention we ate, maybe they don't count.  The ones we think are excused because no one saw us eat them, or because other people were eating it with us don't count.  There are so many ways to ignore nutrition, but there is no way you can ignore who you are in that mirror.  Time is moving, make your goals reality.