Being Disciplined on Your BIRTHDAY [TOUGH LOVE TIP]
Discipline: taking the often hard road to do what's right for yourself, a.k.a. self control
WHY it's important —
It creates consistency
It leads to freedom
It’s important ANY day of the year, birthdays included
How I do it —
I do a workout if it's a usual day I'd do a workout
I eat the same way I usually do
I might have a treat
Simple right?!
Special days are days to be enjoyed, but they do not need to be days that you go completely off the rails.
I don't want to make this an "if I can do it you can too” because I'm a very normal mom. If you could meet me IRL you'd realize I'm just like you in 1,000 different ways!
What might seem special is the level of consistency and discipline I live with.
That is only created in each and every moment to moment choice I make, including on my birthday.
God willing I want to have a lot more of these birthdays, and the choices I make in my fitness and nutrition EVEN on days like this matter.
They make a difference in not just the longevity of our lives, but the quality of our days too.
I don’t know about you, but I want my final years to be full of fun, active memories with those I care the most about. So yes, I will choose discipline on my birthday. Always.
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FULL TRANSCRIPT
[00:00:00] On the day that you're hearing this, it is my birthday. And guess what discipline is still possible in this episode, you'll learn what discipline really is, why it's important every single day and how I stay disciplined on special days, including today. My birthday also, you're gonna get to find out the winner of the episode 100 giveaway.
So let's go.
Hey, mama. Welcome to the tough love mom podcast. I know you're here because you're ready to get consistent and finally lose that weight. And you're not afraid of a little tough love, you know, what to do to lose weight. But following through on those things feels impossible. You wish you could just feel like you're strong, confident self again, and want to be good example for your little ones, but you get thrown off by mom guilt and the unpredictability of motherhood.
Frustrating taking on your journey. Postpartum is hard, but it's not impossible. Hey, I'm Liz and I've [00:01:00] been where you are. I gained a lot of weight in my pregnancies, 90 pounds, and then 60 pounds. I needed to lose that weight to take control of my health. And honestly just wanted to feel like myself again with a sustainable approach to weight loss.
Simple consistency in working on my mindset. I lost it all in just over a year, both times. And I'm here to help you do the same. I believe that we have an ingrained ability to figure out what we need to do, make it happen and do it in a way that OS the world. If you're ready to stop falling off the wagon, create solid routine and healthy habit.
And finally feel your best inside and out all while enjoying D nuggets on your salad, you are in the right place. We're about to transform your journey. My friend get pumped up. It is tough. Love time.
Okay. Discipline let's first talk about the definition. The definition of discipline simply means taking the often harder road to do what's right for yourself. Also known as self control. [00:02:00] So it's basically making decisions that are in your best interest over the long term, even if it's hard. Okay. So why is it important to be discipl.
Every single day of the year. And every decision that we make, I think personally is just my opinion for this tough love tip. But I think there's two important reasons that we choose to be disciplined. The first is that it is the foundation of consistency. And the second is it leads to freedom.
Discipline equals freedom. I don't know if you're familiar with Jacko, but he is spot on with what discipline actually does for us. So the consistency aspect. when you are disciplined in what you do, when you have that structure in your life, it creates consistency. They just play off of each other.
Discipline, you know, creates more consistency and more consistency creates more discipline. It's just, they go back and forth. And that's why I talk about both so much on this podcast and really emphasize both because they play off of each other. The more you pour into one area, [00:03:00] the more the other area thrives, the more, the other skill, I guess you might call it thrives.
When you're more consistent, you feel more disciplined. And when you're getting more disciplined, when you're making those choices, you are more consistent, they just play off of each other. And honestly, when you're aiming to live a healthier lifestyle, you need both. You need both. So that's why discipline is really important.
And it also creates more freedom in our lives when you're able to. And I think it's hard to grasp this until you actually are living it out, but when I'm more disciplined in my food choices, it makes me realize that I do have a choice in what I'm eating. I'm not controlled by food. I'm not controlled by my circumstances.
If life is a little hard, my schedule's a little off. Maybe I got sick or I slept in later than I wanted to. And I couldn't work. Well guess what I'm gonna be disciplined and still do that workout. Figure out a way to make it work in some capacity. And it makes you realize, Hey, I do have the ability to make choices about these things.
My [00:04:00] circumstances don't control me, my thoughts and my feelings. Aren't gonna control me. Food doesn't control me. These things make you realize I actually have a lot more freedom of choice in these areas of my life than society leads you to belief. So in some that is why discipline is really important.
And it's important any day of the year birthdays included, which is why I'm talking about it today on my birthday. So how do I do it? What does it look like for me on a day? Like this. Still wanting to celebrate something fun. I mean, once you're like past 21, birthdays are just kind of like, blah, anyways
And as a mom, my birthday is sandwiched in between Cal's birthday and Roy and my husband's birthday are like back to back. And then Royce's birthdays the month after mine. So mine's like, I forget that. It's my birthday. Sometimes mom life at its finest. I know you guys were late, but. It still is a day where you're like, oh, I feel a little special.
I wanna get a treat. And often we [00:05:00] can go really far off the rails on days like this, just because we feel like we can justify it in our head, but I choose to stay disciplined, stay consistent. Right. Both of those things just really go together on these days. And this is how I do it. Are you ready? Are you ready?
It's not complicated. This is the good part. I do a workout if it's a usual workout day. So like, say my birthday falls on a Sunday. I might not work out. Cause I usually, like I might do a walk on Sunday or just like something really light or not workout at all. But you know, today's a Tuesday and it's my birthday.
So guess who's doing a workout at 5:00 AM. This girl. Okay. It's I'm treating it like any other. same thing with food. I eat the same way I usually do. And I might have a treat. I might get a crumble cookie. I don't know haven't made plans on that yet, but there's, there are situations where you can have fun and celebrate, but it doesn't need to control your whole day.
Special days are to be enjoyed and you know, to do something special, but they do not need to be [00:06:00] days that you go completely off the. I don't wanna make, and I, I don't wanna make this whole thing this whole like birthday thing, discipline this. If I can do it, you can too, but I just wanna remind you that you are in control of a lot more things than you give yourself credit for you're in control of a lot of the choices that you make.
Almost all of them. And if you choose to be disciplined in those choices, you're gonna create a lot more freedom, a more confidence, a lot more consistency in your life. And when you follow through on those choices, day after day, again, consistently. You're gonna realize how much more capable you are, how much certain things that you feel like have control over you don't actually have control over you.
And I just wanna remind you, I'm a really normal mom. Like I'm a, if you met me in real life, which I hope one day we get to you'd realize that I'm like you in probably a thousand different ways. What just might seem a little different is this level of consistency and discipline that I [00:07:00] live with. But honestly, That's only created, like I'm only that way because I make that choice moment in moment out, day in, day out, like, and it's on days like this, where you get set apart in your discipline, in your consistency, and it's not hard.
It's really not, it's not complicated. Like I told you, how do I do it? Well, if it's a workout day, I do a workout. I eat normally, and I might have a treat. I'm telling you, it's that simple. The hard part is what's between your ears. The hard part is what's going on in your head of justifying certain things of, you know, giving in to what seems like a normal thing to do on a day like this, when.
What's normal is just what you choose to be normal in your life. And I choose for discipline and consistency to be a normal thing for me, they're just how I am. And when you choose for what's normal for you to be what's normal for you just becomes part of who you are. It just becomes how you show up how you live your [00:08:00] life.
And it's important because that's what not just defines how others see you, which isn't the be all end. But ultimately it can determine the outcome of our lives, the longevity of our lives. And even though my birthday feels like a really normal day, like we talked about earlier and I'm turning a year older, God willing, I wanna have a lot more birthdays, even though they're like pretty mundane normal days for me now at 31, I, I wanna have a lot more and the choices that I make in my fitness and nutrition, even on days like today, they matter.
They make a difference again, not just in the, the length of our lives, but the quality of our days as well. And I don't know about you, but I want my final years to be full of fun, active memories with those that I care about most. God willing. Right. But I will choose to be disciplined on my birthday because of that.
Always. It's not just about the length, but it's also about the quality [00:09:00] of the days we have here. And I wanna feel good. I wanna be strong and I wanna be a good example for those around me. So I will choose discipline on days like today. And I hope this spurred you on next time, a special day comes around to do the same.
Now I need to tell you who the winner is of the 100 episode giveaway. And I said winner, but actually. Two. So before we get there, what the winners are winning is a starting point session with me for free. This is an awesome value. It's a great, it's a great way to determine, okay, how can I simplify this journey so I can be disciplined so I can be consistent and set up a plan.
What we do is we sit down, talk about where you're at, what you want most outta your journey, what, what you're struggling with a lot. So we can tackle those things head on with a tangible. Step by step plan that you can follow through on you're getting my accountability. So you stay consistent. And then over time, over a couple weeks, you make that plan happen.
You follow through you get disciplined and that action step, that starting point [00:10:00] that we picked becomes part of who you are. It becomes your norm, like we talked about today and then you get to move on from there. The winners of the one hundreds episode giveaway by leaving reviews, screenshotting 'em and sending them in to thet love.
Mom co are Lisa Price and Natalie grass. We'll reach out to you to book those starting point sessions. I cannot wait to meet you guys and pour into you and the rest of you until the next time go get after it. Before you go, thank you for spending this time with me on the tough love mom podcast. If this episode encouraged you in any way, the number one way you can thank me is to leave a review.
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