<span style="font-weight: 400;">Something I have had to face most of my fit and healthy life is negative attitudes towards my choice of lifestyle. Weird right?!?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">OOOOO You’re a fitness freak!”</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Bet you never chill out and just eat chips, right?”</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Gosh you’re so skinny it makes me sick”</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Bet Rachel won’t want any dessert lol”</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Are you allowed ice cream Rach?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">”</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Do you train every day, like all of the time? Do you even have a life?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">How about you? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you ever been made to feel like your the odd ball for trying to be healthy and active?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe you felt pressured to eat cake or not exercise by people who think a healthy lifestyle is a chore or something you must suffer?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">DOES MY NUT IN!!</span>

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https://youtu.be/1bRQ8HR9AEY

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The attitude of others towards your desire to change to a healthier way of living is often, I believe, jealousy. Maybe they are unable to stick to it themselves or they simply don’t believe it is possible to actually </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">enjoy</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a healthy lifestyle.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">OR</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">They simply do not understand how to achieve it and their reaction is one of pure ignorance.</span>

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<h3>How Do You Help Your Clients Deal With This?</h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">However, it is likely to mean that we, as trainers and coaches, must strategise how to deal with this problem and help our clients understand they may face this kind of attitude. Here are some ideas to give them a confident response when others say things like these examples above.</span>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We could simply ignore them, since their opinion doesn’t matter</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe we invite them to join us on our mission for finding happiness in health </span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A tougher one might be to change our friends - yes literally have a cull! </span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">I made the tough decision to do just this in the past and as difficult as it felt at the time, it was one of the best things I ever did for my own health and happiness</span>

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<h3><b>Can We Practice (or Teach) Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)?</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Having PMA allows us to create a positive way of looking at any situation. Consider reframing a negative situation into a lesson, for example. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ask yourself ‘</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">what good can come from this situation?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">’</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Even if it is learning what NOT to do. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Even a circumstance that makes you feel sad, like bereavement, can be reframed into being thankful for knowing the person you lost and at least you had them around for the time you did.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So behaviour change really should include encouraging a positive mental attitude towards situations. Practicing reframing a situation to enable us to succeed or remain positive. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Can we enable our clients by teaching them how to reframe? When they give an example of a danger zone when they ‘failed’ to abstain from picking up a chocolate bar, can we teach them how to see it as a learning curve to appreciate how it made them feel bad. Then use that to reduce the risk of it happening again in the future.</span>

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<h3><b>Endless Willpower?</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now there are several industry influencers I follow that I have heard state that:</span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Will power is not limitless</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> - It has been suggested that willpower gets used up over the day by daily demands and is probably why most of us struggle the most at the end of the day which is most often the biggest danger zone for many of us. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The time you find hardest to resist temptation is later in the day when you have probably used up most of your willpower.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Is that you too?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Let me explain:</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The tougher a day is, the more easily we make bad choices because you have an excuse, right?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The kids create demand shouting;</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">MUUUUM….can I have</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">…(fill the blank)”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">OR</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The busy traffic had you gripping the steering wheel while you mentally created a shopping list on your way from a stressful day at work to the local supermarket, seemingly like every single other person in your area!!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This makes it much easier for you to ‘treat’ yourself while in there since ‘</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">you just got through a tough day’.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In other words it simply means that you used up all of your willpower before getting there and your devil voice was shouting loudest.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Can we use this way of thinking to our advantage?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course we can!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Anytime we can use a tactic or a way of reframing or looking at a situation differently to our advantage has to be a good thing, don’t you agree?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Being more and more aware of how we behave a certain way and why that might be and then using our 4-minute rule maybe we can literally change our behaviour right there and then.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Each time we do we are conditioning our new behaviour to be more of a habit, all while listening to our inner dialogue and making the right choices.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This positive mental attitude helps us face any negative attitudes we might face and also plan for those occasions when we might use up our daily quota of willpower a bit too early.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So how is your behaviour change journey going so far?</span>

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<b><i>Next Time; Education, Research &amp; Resources.</i></b>

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