I see it all too often. People who want to lose weight hate how they look and hate their own body at the same time. Getting fit takes time. It takes time to change habits and learn to treat yourself right. You have to learn to love your body and do the important things to make sure it’s healthy and well. When you accept yourself, no matter what weight you are or how fit or out of shape you are, you start doing the things that’s best for you and your body, such as making lifestyle changes.
Do you hate your body and your looks because you worry you won’t ever look different?
How your body looks is temporary. It changes every day, every minute. You don’t look like you did last year, whether you consider that a good thing or not. Why not change things and in the process, treat your body the way it deserves to be treated? People are often prophetic. What they believe will happen, happens. That’s because they follow the path that leads them to that point and fail to continue a fitness program, giving up before they accomplish their goal. What if you started a healthy program of fitness and didn’t give up?
Do you think your body defines who you are?
You often give off vibes of who you feel you are. It shows in your posture and everything you do. If you think you’re the “ugly” person, the “fat” person or even the “failure,” you act like you are and people see you that way. When you love your body and yourself just as you are, you start to visualize yourself as someone who deserves the changes you’re about to make and no longer hang on to the false image you’ve attached to yourself.
Learn to look past what you look like today and hold the vision of what you can look like.
Your body isn’t you and how it looks isn’t permanent. Think of how different people look when they first get up, compared to how they look after they shower and get ready to start their day. Getting a new hair cut can make a difference how you look, just like getting in shape can. When you focus more on living healthy and realize getting fit is similar to getting a haircut or applying make-up—although it does take more dedication—it makes the journey far easier.
- Your weight isn’t good or bad, it just is what it is, the amount you weigh. Focus on your health and keeping your body healthy. It’s the only one you’ll ever have. Once you do that, living a healthier lifestyle is easier.
- Focus on how you feel, rather than how you look. Start a journal to record what you eat and how you feel afterward and when you exercise and how you feel. You’ll start to notice when you do something good for your body and avoid bad habits, you feel better.
- Remember that just because you accept yourself as you are, you are destined to remain that way. Appreciate the fact you can exercise and have the ability to treat yourself better and healthier.
- Learn to accept the fact that occasionally you’ll eat something unhealthy or miss a workout, everyone does. It isn’t the end of healthy eating or exercising. Just go back to good habits the next day and forget it.
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