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LISA RENN, APD
Lisa is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Accredited Nutritionist with 15 years of
experience, specialising in helping people identify and change habits that impact negatively
on their health. Inspiring change through her business Body Warfare Nutrition
(www.bodywarfare.com.au), Lisa works to improve health using sustainable and practical
ideas that are easy to implement and consider your personal situation. Lisa is an
inspirational and educational speaker and group facilitator. Click here to learn more.

THREE STEPS
TO SUCCESS
If you seriously want to achieve more meaningful results when it comes to eating and
exercise, being interested simply isn’t enough. You must be committed. Let’s face it;
almost everyone is interested in feeling healthy and having more energy. But despite a
sincere interest to improve, most people will continue with the same old diet cycles
without ever reaching their full potential. So here are three motivation tips from nutrition
expert Lisa Renn to help you achieve your exercise and nutrition goals.

Step 1. Keep your focus
When you set up new plans and
expectations it can sometimes be really
easy to forget them and go back to
your usual habits or to fall into the trap
of listening to the devil on your
shoulder. For example, you may have
set a goal for decreasing your alcohol
intake at a recent function but it didn’t
happen. Or you may have tried to
increase exercise and got stuck in your
unhelpful self-talk, such as “It’s too
hot,” or “I’m too tired,” or “I’ve been
working hard, I need a break.” This is
pretty normal. The solution? Don’t
stress, just refocus.

Step 2. Know your excuses
When you are trying to change the way
you normally do things, you need to be
honest with yourself and know – in
advance – that self-sabotaging thoughts
may cross your mind. These may sound
like any or all of the following:
• “Now is not a time for this kind of
sacrifice”
• “I’ve worked hard, I deserve it”
• “I’m too tired/busy/hot to plan or
think about this stuff right now”
• “There are a lot of people worse off,
out there”
• “I’ll skip the plan and just see how I go”
• “I should be able to control myself
anyway”
• “I’ll start again another ѥ