What’s Your Breaking Point?

By Craig Ballantyne | 07/18/2009 |

images4 Have you ever heard the story of the boiling frog?

It goes like this…

When you place a lil’ froggy in a pot of boiling water, the frog’s immediate reaction is to jump like crazy to get out of that pot and escape “un-boiled”.

BUT…

If you put that same lil’ froggy into a pot of cool water and slowly heat the water up to a boil, Mr. Frog will just sit there until it’s too late for him to escape. He’ll be cooked before he realizes the danger he is in.

So what’s that mean to you?

It’s simple.

A lot of us are making seemingly harmless little decisions everyday (you know, getting the chips with your sub at Subway or turning that one reward meal into three each week).

Each one of those decisions adds more belly fat and with enough of these bad choices can lead you down the path to some really serious and nasty diseases. weightscalessm

We’re slowly allowing ourselves to be boiled.

We are…

Making small little diet mistakes each day that then become bad habits and cause us to gain belly fat
Making excuses to skip workouts and slowly get off track
Waiting and waiting and waiting to get started
Not looking deep inside ourselves for internal motivation to change
Not seeking out social support from others
Resistant to change
And just not taking baby steps each day to improve our health, fitness, and body transformations

So I have one question for you…

Well, actually, I have two questions, but you’ll only be able to answer one.

1) What is your “breaking point” required to to stick to your program and keep up that motivation? What will finally cause you to make the healthy changes for good and what do you need to help you stick to it?

2) If you already have had your breaking point and succeeded, tell us what it was and how you were able to stick to your changes.

Believe me, your answers will inspire and encourage thousands of other men and women to succeed.

When I take a look at all the TT Transformation Contest Success Stories, there is one common element to their stories.

They all hit a BREAKING POINT.

That got me thinking – especially after my blog post yesterday about how my Dad would be celebrating his 70th birthday if he had lived a better life.