OPINION
If you want to get into better physical shape or lose weight you have to treat yourself well, very well. You have to feed yourself the right types of food, eat the right quantities and you need to exercise. But you can only treat your body as well as you feel about yourself on the inside. This means your thoughts, emotions and self-beliefs need to be a match.
Before you attempt your self-transformation you need to get this inner mind programming working with you and not against you and then your body will follow. Most of us do this backwards.
We tell ourselves that we will feel better about ourselves after we lose the weight but it doesn’t work this way. You need to feel better about yourself so you can get a healthy, feel-good body. Becoming overweight can mean you are not looking after yourself properly. Eating the wrong types of foods, too much of them and avoiding exercise is never going to serve you well and the outcome is you become stuck in a less-then-feel-good body. So to reverse this we need to “fix” up the inner mind programming first so it doesn’t derail you time and time again no matter how many eating plans or exercise programmes you begin.
Misinformation and negative thoughts about nutrition, dieting and exercise can combine with some plain old self-delusion to poison our learning opportunities. If our thinking is clouded with unhelpful doubts and pessimism, just as junk food is unhealthy for our bodies, junk thoughts are unhealthy for our state of mind and if it is not changed you will continue to be stuck.