THREAD #2
It's the end of week 6 and I wanted to do another thread sharing 4 mental tips that helped me. You need to find a good food/exercise program for you, though. There's a huge mental aspect here, and you need to like your activities and find healthy foods that you enjoy.
It's the end of week 6 and I wanted to do another thread sharing 4 mental tips that helped me. You need to find a good food/exercise program for you, though. There's a huge mental aspect here, and you need to like your activities and find healthy foods that you enjoy.
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1467121405980512258
1) Cover your mirrors. Don't even look down at yourself without a shirt. Micromanaging your progress is counterproductive and you don't see results from day to day. Seeing an actual result is so satisfying and you need to space out your body audits for that to happen.
2) Accountability buddy. Not to give you a hard time. Someone you can brag to about daily work and get kudos but won't berate you if you cheat. The purpose is for you to want to do well. It helps to pick someone who is also trying to get healthy so you can support each other.
3) Try to review the things you do in excess, even if they aren't things your brain associates with weight. Diet soda was keeping me bloated and gave me cravings and in its absence I feel better even though it didn't seem like I was doing worse off while drinking it.
4) Force yourself to half-ass an exercise if you're tired or not feeling it. You almost always get warmed up and into the groove and by the end of it you're working hard. And even if not, doing anything is better than doing nothing. Slower progress is still progress.
Try to start out by sticking to these four steps for an extended period of time. Say one month. After that you don't need to be as strict about not looking at yourself or forcing yourself to get up and exercise every day (though it's good if you keep it up!).
But once you look at yourself and see those results, they become a catalyst for you to keep going. You just need to overcome that first hump before your initial results start to show. Momentum is harder to build than to keep.
Anyway I hope this helps someone.
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Anyway I hope this helps someone.
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PS
I really can’t stress #4 enough. I still haven’t internalized this fully but literally today I felt like there was no way I could work out and ended up doing this. You can see on the HR graph how I gradually got into it.
I really can’t stress #4 enough. I still haven’t internalized this fully but literally today I felt like there was no way I could work out and ended up doing this. You can see on the HR graph how I gradually got into it.
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1469388042003783681
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