Journey to Boston...Believing in yourself...

What does your mind believe??

"You can do anything if you put your mind to it!"

The mind is very persuasive when it chooses to be. How many times have you thought the night before you will get your butt out of bed and go exercise in the morning, or you will do something that you are excited about, then you try to wake up in the morning and you lay in bed, you know you should be getting up and going, but you mind says, "Nah stay here in your warm bed and just chill for the morning." So in the end you listen to your mind, not your body and stay in bed. The body says, "no lets just chill." I believe its your mind saying it all and the body just follows. The mind is the organ that tells the body what to do.

My mind has put me through an eating disorder for the last 30 odd years, and the constant need to be on the go. Most of the time I was exercising even as a youngster, any time I wasn't happy I would either go for a walk, or ride my bike or take my dog for a walk. I would go walking anything up to 3 times a day.  If my parents argued during the day I would be out walking, if they argued at night I would be in my room wishing I was out walking. As I grew up I needed the feeling of the endorphin's that made me happy, well I thought I did. I thought I needed to be skinny to be liked by people. I thought so many things and many of them were very unhealthy.

I spent most of the end of last year and the beginning of this year thinking I was doing well and dealing with my eating disorder, but I wasn't, again I thought I was, but I wasn't listening to my body telling me otherwise. So what you think isn't always best for your body.

You see the mind can have a negative and a positive impact on your body. I believed I could do all my Ironman 70.3 training on eating just enough, I believed I was well on the road to recovery from my eating disorder last year when I wasn't, I believe I can achieve running my first marathon next June, but this time the difference is I understand that I need to do it in a healthy way. There are days when I believe some of the negatives, but then I know part of my mind can turn the negatives into positives and make sure I eat right for the training I do. 

Find the positives and set your mind to them and your body and life will follow.

Believe in yourself, the positives in your life and let your mind take you to places you hope to reach.

Have a great Friday and weekend :)

Hayley xx