Hey! It's a week day, and I am back for a new blog post!

Fun fact: I started my first, first blog when I was in high school, I had another lame one when I was in college, and then I started www.jaclynricchio.com in 2016, right when we were leaving Chicago for Atlanta and I had left...

Thank you so much for responding to my request and letting me know what questions and topics you'd like me to cover. And if you haven't yet, you can still email me at [email protected]! 

Ok, on to today's question:

"How do you drown out noise in your head that...

OK, so you know what you're supposed to be doing, but you're not consistently following through on the actions... 

You've spent a lot of time concocting plans! You have journals and printouts galore!

You have a fancy app for your workouts and you pay a monthly membership fee for it.

...

One of the BIG reasons that I have been able to stick with healthy eating, running, lifting, daily reading, journaling, and waking up early is because I shifted my beliefs about myself. 

I used to see myself as a quitter.

I was never able to finish things.

I didn't think highly of...

Do you struggle with eating healthy because your significant other wants to eat differently?

Maybe your housemates love having cookies and pizza and tacos and pasta and beer in the house.

When it's time for dinner, you feel like you need to eat what they want because making two different meals is...

Does your sleep suck? Maybe you aren't on a solid schedule or you're not getting quality sleep when you're in bed.

When your sleep sucks, you're more likely to reach for caffeine, sugar, and processed carbs to stay awake... which ends up messing up the next night of sleep too!

...

Should you get on the scale every day?

Let's chat pros and cons.

Maybe you're here because you want to change your relationship with food or become a runner or become a consistent exerciser.... for the eventual purpose of losing weight. 

(Which is fine, btw. It's okay...

Do you yo-yo (or maybe triangle) between lifting weights, running, and being a couch potato?

I mean like... maybe you find a really cool video program, gym, or personal trainer to lift weights,

and then you stop lifting weights because you're super focused on training for a race and there's only...

Have you ever trained for a race and then when the race was done, you just stopped running?

Or maybe when all the races were cancelled because of the pandemic, your motivation was gone and you stopped running.

Or maybe you were running but then something unexpected happened in life....

 Have you ever gone on a trip for work or for vacation or maybe to visit family, and you said F IT to your healthy habits?

Healthy habits felt so restrictive and you just wanted to let loose and have fun.

Or maybe you didn't want to disappoint the people you were with...