Why do Plans Change so Quickly?

Just over a month ago I posted that I was going to start Slacking Off Before my Deadline. In that post I had decided that I was exercising far too much and I decided to trim it down to just one session per day. At that time my exercise consisted of cardio at the gym, weight training and karate. I had pretty much stopped running.

Then just a couple of weeks later I had another go at running after discovering that I had previously been Running Too Fast. After this post I decided to re-incorporate running into my regime so my routine changed again.

Then about a week ago, just two weeks after planning to start running again, I stopped all over again and pulled out of the Race I had signed up for! At the same time I decided to cut back my exercise further to give me more time for other areas of my life.

Now, just a week later I feel myself wanting to change once again! I've just got back from a holiday in the South of France. It was lovely out there but I did absolutely no exercise and I ate truckloads of food. I've come back 6 lbs heavier! I knew this would happen but that doesn't stop me feeling bad about it. My gut reaction is to get down that gym twice a day like I was before to try to shift the excess again as fast as possible and just sod everything else!

So why so many changes in such a short time? Am I the only one who goes through this? I think that one of the issues that I personally face is that I like to plan. I like to have a set routine that I follow - I don't like to just 'wing it' when it comes to exercise or food. I plan things in great detail and when anything changes in my circumstances I go and re-work my plans. So I guess that I notice these changes more than others.

Looking at the reasons behind the changes I see nothing out of the ordinary. I was getting a bit obsessive over exercise so I cut back a bit, I introduced running after trying something new, a week of illness and a holiday threw my plans out of whack. I'm sure these are things that happen to us all a lot of the time.

The same thing can be said of food. How many times have I planned food only to have those plans compromised because of a stay with family, a day out, a meal out, somebody's birthday etc etc etc. This happens all the time. Why?

Because LIFE happens!

This is just life isn't it? Stuff happens. Life happens, that's just the way things are. Things change, things get in the way, people get in the way. In my case I change my plans every time something changes and this gets very annoying when I spend a lot of time planing and have to keep changing it but at least I'm adapting. I fear it would be much worse to just ignore those changes and not deal with them.

I'm learning to accept it now. I find this problem cropping up in all areas of my life - not just my fat loss goals. Things always change and we need to be able to adapt if we want to keep up with the times and keep moving forward with our goals.