One of my personal training clients is out of commission for a few weeks with an inflamed achilles tendon. He was playing with his kids in his back yard and "wham!". In the meantime, he is healing and unable to exercise, so he is traveling for business and also not paying much attention to his diet.
Now I don't want to pick on him per se, but I want to point out something very significant. Injuries are like any set back in life. It's not what happens to you that is significant, it's what you do about it that counts!
When I am unable to follow my normal exercise regiment, I always ask myself this question, "What can I do today?" For example, if I can't get in a workout, I'll set a goal to make sure that I drink my allotment of water for the day. It's always a good practice to differentiate between our intentions and our actions. We judge ourselves by our intentions, so it's easy to not take action. And before you know it one day leads to another and another, and little gets accomplished.
We all have the best of intentions, but few of us are able to carry them out with consistency. A simple way to improve upon this is a two step process. One. Write your intentions into your daily to-do list. By taking this action step, you immediately trigger the brain to be much more accountable. Two. Just like in business, "you get paid for done". Projects in your head don't make money. Projects completed do pay off. Actions completed pay off too!
So put your daily "habits" of drinking water, eating small meals, and exercising in your to-do list (daily) and think of them as paying you big dividends when "done". Health is wealth!
No BS. This is simply a matter of changing your thinking. Powerful associations to things we already do and value can help us make big strides. It's important to get your brain to stop "thinking" that doing these daily activities is time consuming and inconvenient. Get excited about the changes you are making with every small meal, every bottle of water, every push up! It's the little things that add up to make a big difference.
Avoid having a setback take you out of the game. There is always something you can do to move you toward your goals, but it takes an intention and action to get it done. Think of your "intentions" as priming the pump for the actions that are to follow. Get fired up about your intentions and your actions will fall into place like dominoes.
In the end it's a shift of values where you are taking action on things because they are now higher priority because you "must do" them. Without this thought process your daily actions are just "should do" items that you never seem to get to.
Press on!
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