Reevaluating

Realizing that a plan is not working is hard. First of all, especially if the plan has a timeline measured in weeks or months instead of hours and days, some sort of deadlines or record keeping are essential. It is fine and dandy that you weigh 200lbs and can do 12 pullups, unless you  have been trying to weigh 180 and do 20 pullups but have been stuck in the same place more or less for a year. Clearly something is not working as well as you would like.I know a trainer who mercilessly mocks the fat girls who go to the gym and do 20 minutes at a leasiurely pace on a glider while reading a magazine. He says they are always still fat 6 months later. Mean but pretty true.  Maybe you have been working on baby step 1 (saving $1,000) for 6 months and have only stashed $500. For a single mom or family on a real tight income that might have been very difficult and genuinely the best they can do. However for most folks if they took a look at their behavior and had a few less five dollar Cappachino's or Carmel Machiato's and evenings drinking microbrews at a hip pub they could have been well into other goals (baby step 2 or saving a solid emergency fund, whatever) in that time. It is also hard because we have to admit that our brilliant plans didn't quite work out as well as we hoped. Nobody likes to do that.

 

I have had to admit failure in my own life recently. My exercise plan isn't working as well as I would like. I am getting stronger and increasing muscular endurance but not losing any weight or drastically improving my running/ cardio. I am ratcheting down on my diet and going to drastically up the amount of running and cardio that I do. Remember that you can never be too strong, just too slow.

 

If you  are not meeting your goals then start changing things. Maybe you aren't being very honest with yourself or maybe the plan just isn't working. Admitting failure sucks but not as much as continuing to fail.