How I might be Contributing to Another's Eating Disorder Top 10..

1. Encouraging someone to pursue slenderness/dieting or deprivation of "fattening" food.
2. Tease someone about their eating habits.
3. Criticizing someone eating habits or choices.
4. Admiring weight loss diets or weight loss dieting.
5. Admire rigidly controlled eating.
   
6. Criticize your own eating habits or choices.
7. Make negative comments about your body or some other persons fatness.
8. Support the assumption that no one should be fat.
9. Disapprove of fatness in general.
10. Say or assume someone is doing well because of weight loss.

Next week continued with next 10!

More Exercise Readiness

Last week you identified your top 5 Values and added specific identifiers to them. This week I would like you to bring at least one of those values to the benefits of exercise. Even if none of your values mention exercise in them there is a way to relate them.

For example:
If one value is your family ask yourself what will adding exercise into your life do for your family? Make you a happier person if you are fit? Make you more comfortable in your life if you have good health? Spend more quality time with your family? Asking some questions can help you identify how the benefit of exercise relate to your values.

Then set an objective milestone.

An objective milestone is something you would like to achieve that in a certain period of time.For example:
As a family we will add one active activity into our week on a regular basis in 6 mos.

The next task is to make a Related Value Statement. This brings you back to your value as it relates to you. For example continuing on the same value of family:

I will be active and happy with my family.

Try this it is really fun and can bring you around to making exercise a regular part of your values. See what happens and how you feel when you do this activity.

Exercise Readiness Continued

Last week I asked you to list your top 5 values. This week I would like you to customize them by making specific statements about each value.

Here is an example of one of my values relating to fitness and health:

"I am a vibrant and physically active person."

Specific Identifier - My children are 19 and 16 years old. It is my desire to live an active life and to maintain my health so that I will be around to see my children when they, graduate from school, get married and have children.

Now it is your turn. Get specific and identify your values and motivators.

Ready to Exercise Part 2

Identifying whether you are ready to exercise can be a challenge. You may think you are ready and then the intentions fizzle out.

There are some things you can do to help determine if you are ready.
Start out answering the questions, What is a commitment? What is a Value? What is a Goal?

Then list your values from 1 to 10. Then pick you top 5 and and number them in order of importance. Is exercise, fitness, health any of those top 5? If so you can use this to create goals of fitness. All is not lost if they are not part of your top 5 you just have more work to do.

Start this week by answering those questions and listing your values. We will take it from there. If you want to work more on this sooner give me a call.

Are You Ready To Exercise?

There are 5 phases of readiness to change:

1. Pre-contemplation
2. Contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance

There are also 3 areas of self to consider:

1. Your emotional state
2. Your mental state
3. Your physical state

All of these things effect your readiness to start and continue exercising. The good news is that even if you are in the pre-contemplation stage you can get to action by evaluating your values.

I am here to help with that and would like to offer a free evaluation for anyone interested. Give me a call 908-238-1185 or email at spencellen@earthlink.net.

Get ready to change in 2011!