It’s All in Your Head - Just get through the Valley of Despair!

I first came across this graph in a book called The 12 Week Year - it encourages us to lay out specific plans and reassess goals periodically without having it all hinge on January 1st. Many of us start off the New Year with boundless energy and enthusiasm only to have it peter out by February. Then it seems like the year is shot, and we just revert to our well-worn habits, trudge along, and wait for another arbitrarily-assigned milestone to arrive and kick us in the pants - a birthday, a new week, month, or, hopefully not, a health crisis.

For most people new to NGPT, the boot camp experience mirrors the above pattern associated with Positive Change. At some point, you saw pictures of a friend’s before and afters online, or ran into a suddenly-svelter acquaintance in the grocery store. WOW! Where do I sign up?

Uninformed optimism - you don’t know what you’re getting into, but you want those results!

Then the emails start to come. This is going to take some work. You start to slide into ‘informed pessimism.’ You haven’t yet seen the results in YOU, and this might be harder than it looks.

Then you take your first class. And it was crazy hard but you survived! But then you woke up the next morning - when did the Mack truck drive through your bedroom and run over you?

This blog is coming out right about the time you’re hitting the trough of the graph - AKA the Valley of Despair. You’re sore and you want a Diet Coke and a piece of chocolate, dagnabit! Your spouse/children/dog may be giving you a wide berth. This is where you’re either going to jump off the slide entirely, or push through just a little more.

All we ask is to allow that first full week.

Soreness fades.

The food plan becomes easier.

The classes are less terrifying.

And then you’ll get to that first weigh in.

SQUEEEEE!!!!!

SUCCESS.

And that’s when you find yourself in “informed optimism.” This works for YOU and you’ll have seen the results.

The entire Meltdown nation has been where you are in week one.

We are here for you.

Whatever it takes to get through that first two weeks, do.

Whatever your reasons for coming through our doors, YOU are worth it.

All the best,

Marcey

Coach Marcey Tidwell is started as a client with NGPT in January 2011. Joining the team as an accountability coach, she wears many hats in assisting the Meltdown Nation! Nurse Marcey by day, she brings a wealth of knowledge the program!