Natural Muscle May 2015 | Page 17

form, your muscles adapt, you feel more confident, and the weight you started with will become your warm up set now. Bottom line: Give yourself permission to be a beginner and learn over time. 2. Start where you are with what you have and do what you can do now. This is one of my most favorite sayings and it applies to anything you must do or want to do in life. Start where you are: Much like being a beginner, we must start somewhere. In the example of someone wanting to lose weight, they cannot expect to wake up one day and suddenly eat a completely different menu of foods, know how to gauge their intakes of nutrients, and simply watch the weight melt off. That is not practical or recommended. However, an attainable goal might be to add a certain amount of fruits and veggies to their meals today. Or to clean up one meal that so that it is healthier today. Perhaps they start exercising and will walk two times around the block today. Their goal