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CFSF’s Way to Ensure Success and Sanity

We’ve all said it to ourselves at one time or another; “My New Year’s resolution is to go on a diet to lose weight.” At 1st glance it sounds and looks really good. You tell your friends what your resolution is and everyone puts in their 2 cents on what the most effective way is to lose that weight quick. When you start, you’re laser focused. Nothing is going to sidetrack you from your ultimate goal, and this goes good for the first couple weeks. By week 3, you start getting more irritable, brasher with people. You’re getting sick of the, “How’s your diet going?” Just once you want an order of fries, but you tell yourself, “If you have those that means another hour and a half on the elliptical to burn those calories.” Who has another hour and a half to do the elliptical, let alone anything else for yourself anymore? By early to mid-February you finally buckle. One morning someone brought donuts in the break room and you just had to have one, then 2 because the 1st was 10,000X better than the chicken breast with salad you’ve been eating for the past month. At lunch, you go out with your friends and order the burger with fries. They may ask you “Aren’t you still on your diet?” Your response: “I had a couple donuts this morning, so now that’s done.”

And that’s it…you’re done. You drove yourself to the brink of insanity for maybe 6 weeks just to quit with the same determination you started with. What long term changes did you really accomplish? Was it even worth it? Won’t you be saying this again once the snow falls again next winter?

Since I’ve been working out and now a trainer at CFSF, I have notice that nutrition is always on the forefront of people’s minds. You see the person who is really in shape and wonder what their secret is? More often than not they tell you they eat Paleo and that made all the difference. But, just as in the story above, trying to stick strictly to that may have the same conclusion. I’m going to catch heat for my next statement and I’m totally o.k. with it.

A Paleo challenge is no different.

Now that you’re done cursing me out, let me elaborate. I’m talking about changing your eating habits for the long term, not quick-fixing what you eat for 30 days. I’m also talking about viewing the one ‘bad’ thing may eat not as a deal breaker. Our society is such that you will drive yourself mad if you try to completely cut that out of your diet entirely. What I’m talking about is taking time to make yourself proactive and know when you’re going to have that beer and pizza with your buddies so you can plan accordingly.

This is why we decided to come up with “Practical Paleo.” What these Seminars will do for you is give you the tools you will need, the resources to make this a success for you, and the chance to make this resolution a reality.

“Practical Paleo” will be a program that will get us together once, maybe twice, a month to layout the path to a new you. We will start with a big picture overview and get more and more specific as the year goes on. Different times of the year will present us with different ‘obstacles’ to handle (summer at the lake, holidays, family vacations.) By starting broad and getting more finite this will allow you to feel successful throughout the entire program.

Our first meeting will be held Sunday, January 15th from 2-4 pm right before open gym and our nightly Sunday WOD. If you are at all interested in nutrition and how nutrition affects your performance, self-esteem and lifestyle please mark your calendar. Rob and myself will be heading up this great string of seminars that will include mini-challenges, great information on making little changes that will make big differences in your life and health. Many of you have participated in our Paleo Challenges and that is great this is going to be a completely different format then we have ever done before.

If you are interested please stop by our office and get your questionnaire that we would like filled out prior to our first seminar. RSVP by emailing me at liza@cfsiouxfalls.com or Rob at rob@cfsiouxfalls.com.

-Liza