Since I have read many posts about lack of motivation, I thought I might share my take on that. A little backstory, after 2.5 years I am finally only 5 pounds away from my ultimate goal weight. My total loss is not that big, it will be 50 pounds when I reach 150, but I did need over a year of maintenance at some point and it really helped me put some things into perspective.
When you are young and you are not obese class 2 or 3, most of the time you won't feel the health problems that come with being overweight or obese. Your body is still young and strong and you will fully experience the effects of excess weight later in life.
That's why young and relatively healthy overweight people have such a hard time changing their eating habits for the sake of health. Because it might be important, but it's not something exactly tangible, it's more theoretical.
What helped me put things into perspective, is that when I was at my heaviest, my eating habits and my whole lifestyle was not good for both my physical and my mental health. I realized that not only eating all that crap was bad for me because it made me fat, but because it is bad for my body plain and simple.
That's not a way for a confident and happy person to feed ourselves. All that food also made me more sluggish, less productive and less willing to live a full and social life, due to the self confidence issues that stemmed from being obese. It made me unhappy.
I think that when you realize that the comfort and the convenience food offers you is not worth the physical and mental strain it causes you, you will eventually lose the weight. At least that's what happened with me. Another thing I want to add, is that losing weight to look slimmer is not just about being considered attractive by others (though there's nothing wrong with wanting that).
For me, it's more about matching the idea you have of yourself inside your head, with the actual image of your body. And this is going to be a reflection of your eating habits. I could never accept me as a fat girl, that's just not who I am. I always pictured myself as someone at a healthy weight even when I was at my heaviest.
Of course, that doesn't mean that you should hate your current body, just because you can't identify as fat. The fat you have is just an accumulation of calories over a period of time, and if you accept that and love yourself regardless of that, you will lose the weight in a healthy, sustainable way that will help you maintain later on the road.
Take as much time you need and make it AS EASY AS POSSIBLE for you if you want to make it. Don't be too restrictive or too aggressive. Find a way to create eating habits that you will be okay with maintaining forever. In my opinion, that's how you should approach weight loss.
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