Sunday Sessions #2
Achieving goals & protein and insulin
Why You Fail to Achieve your Goals.
January 1st.
“This is going to be my year. I want to ___ (fill the gap, lose 10kg, get back to the gym, regain my health…).”
March 1st.
“What were my resolutions again?”
Who’s been here before? We all set goals with good intentions. Typically we aren’t happy with something, so we decide to change. If you’ve sat down with a personal trainer, life coach or even had some exposure to goal setting before you would have been told that you need to make your goals SMART-er. SMART (Specific, Measurable, Accountable, Realistic, Time-based) is the process of goal setting that most of us are taught. It breaks down a vague dream and puts more action behind it. It helps you to nail down exactly what it is that you are going after. The Google maps for your next car trip.
Goals have 3 layers and a term coined by James Clear being the 3 layers of behaviour change. Outcome, process, identity. Outcome based goals are those which are defined by what you achieve (lose 10kg). Process based goals are goals that focus on how you will achieve something (exercise 5x per week). Identity goals refer to who the person is you are wanting to become (fit, runner, bodybuilder, etc.). Quite often we address our goal setting in this order. “I want to lose 10kg (outcome). To lose 10kgs, I will exercise 5x per week (process).” The hope here is that by focusing on an outcome, you (your identity) will change.
What if we say you’ve been doing this in all the wrong order? Where most people go wrong is that they only set outcome based goals. They focus on what they want rather than how they should get there and who the person is that they want to become.
Instead of starting with what (outcome), start by identifying who you want to become. Then asking yourself, how can I be like that person? In turn you’re creating a new identity. You’re creating a new “Self”.
Read the full blog HERE
A random thought..
After looking more into the development and symptoms of diabetes, it was intriguing to find that one of the main receptors that helps to regulate blood sugar is also sensitive to amino acids. In diabetics these receptors stop working leading to dysfunctional insulin secretion and chronically high levels of blood sugar. High intakes of amino acids (protein) with meals allow these receptors to signal the release of insulin, helping to lower elevated blood sugar. Another tick of confirmation bias as to why protein is such an important nutrient that we all need to consider.