🟣 I made my kitchen a biohazard

Sunday before last I did what any stand up Brit would do on a cold, dank day;

Made a banging roast.

And because I occasionally roleplay as an adult I used the chicken to make some stock for my week’s cooking

Just, where I am actually a bit shit at the adulting thing? I left it to cool on the side and forgot about it for 3 days, transforming it into salmonella soup.

Any sane person would've dealt with it immediately.

I, however, did not.

It had fat in there and I didn't want to fuck my pipes. But I also couldn't be arsed figuring the proper disposal method. So I left it. Told myself I'd sort it later…

Here she is this morning, 11 days after her birth:

Getting riper by the hour. 

I walk past it constantly. It's not going anywhere. 

And yet somehow ignoring this biological weapon feels easier than spending five minutes dealing with it.

Go on. Tell me what a dirty little goblin I am ;) x

But when you do, I’ll get defensive and come straight for the fucking juglar mate

Because this is exactly what you do with fitness.

You skip the gym because you're knackered. Fair fucks. But then tomorrow you're also knackered.

Fast forward six months and your lungs are caressing your butthole when you run for the bus.

You have the biscuit you said you wouldn't. Then the whole packet. Then you think bollocks to it and order a Dominos because you've already blown it. Finding peace in, “I’ll start again Monday” 

Except Monday's still just as fucking hard. 

So Monday becomes January.

Which becomes Spring.

Or when Mercury stops being a dick.

Meanwhile that voice in your head gets louder:

“You're useless. You can't stick to anything. You'll always be like this.”

And this cycle? It’s broken by one thing and one thing alone;

Taking bloody action.

Your brain, God love her, is a filthy little liar when she whispers “tomorrow will be easier.”

She’s not protecting you. She’s just delaying doing the hard thing.

Life will get in the way after Christmas, too. The ONLY way January will feel easier is if you do something today.

Get your first reps in.

Try to add 1-2k to your step average. If you’re not training at all - get 1 session/week locked in.

If festivities are really doing your nutrition dirty - stop being a perfectionist and start building a bit of structure. A few more plants. A bit more protein.

Give ‘Future You’ something to work with because momentum beats shame every day of the week.

You don't need to be perfect.

You just need to start.

My app is free for the first week and in it you can pick up a program and set up the initial steps to getting a handle on your nutrition

In there you have options to start training with just 1-2x/week to get going.

It’ll take the stress out of those first steps and get you building momentum to close out the year.

Do that and I pinky promise I’ll sort out that rancid pot of chicken before it turns into Chernobyl 2.0 (:

Big love

Rachel

JOIN THE BITS APP - 7 DAY FREE TRIAL