'Fitness And Nutrition Are Mental - Fitness And Nutrition Motivation For Beginners'

Posted Jan 16, 2022

'In this video we discuss why fitness and nutrition are mental, and some ways to change your thinking process when it comes to both fitness and nutrition.   Transcript/notes Many people start up a new diet or fitness routine to improve their health, or to lose weight, but actually in most cases they only want to look better.  And that’s not a knock, looking better makes you feel better, it improves your confidence, which in most cases improves your overall health.  So, what most people do, when it comes to fitness and nutrition is look for keywords.  The main keywords being secrets, short cuts and small number values.  For instance, secrets to getting great glutes, or short cuts to building muscle and losing fat.  As far as small number values go, which of these would you choose, 3 weeks to 3 pack abs, or lose 20 pounds in 20 weeks?  C’mon now, 3 weeks vs 20 weeks…3 weeks it is.  The problem is, is that when it comes to fitness and nutrition; there are really no short cuts or secrets.  As with anything you want to accomplish in life, even looking better and improving your health, it takes time, a lot of hard work, and a mental shift.  We often focus on the foods we are eating and the exercises we are performing, and while both of these are important, we really don’t focus any attention to our mental state.  You see, changing how you eat and what you eat is easy, for a short period of time.  Sticking to a consistent exercise program is also easy for a short period of time.   When you are first starting out, your brain is laser focused on changing the way you look, and at first you can see the changes happen fast.  Weight comes flying off and you are feeling a mental high quite a bit.  Dropping sizes in the clothes you wear, everyone telling you how great you look, people asking you for your secrets, short cuts and any advice you can give to them.  Your change in physical appearance and all of this attention you are getting is just pleasuring your brain with mental stimulation.  But, there comes a point when all of this kind of levels off.  Maybe you have transformed your body quite a bit, reached a point where it is much more difficult to see any more physical changes, and people are used to your new physical appearance, so that attention you were getting just isn’t there anymore.  This is where it can go all bad.  Slowly you start to go back to the way you lived your life before all of your changes.  Rather than working out 4 times a week, you cut back to twice a week so you can watch all of the new shows on all the streaming devices that everyone else is watching.  Eating healthier and smaller portions, yea that was great and all, but man I miss scrolling the internet and downing a whole pan of cinnamon rolls.  “you know what, I’ll get back to my healthy routine next week”.  Before you know it, you are back to living your life the way you did before your transformation.  Sitting most of the day, binge watching shows, eating like a garbage disposer, and getting metal stimulation from media sources and high calorie non-nutrient dense foods.  You see, what happens in cases like this is that while you went through a physical appearance transformation, and a slight brain transformation, you didn’t go through a complete mental transformation.  Usually we get focused on a goal, maybe to lose weight and look better.  Along that journey, the immediate physical changes we see, and the attention we get from other people fuel us to continue the journey.  But then bam, we have reached that goal, physical changes aren’t as noticeable and the attention has completely disappeared.  The motivation goes away and we slowly go back to living how we did before our massive change.  Ultimately this is why fitness and nutrition are mostly mental.  You have to change the way you live your life, change the way you think, change the way you make decisions, basically change the way your brain is programmed.  And folks that is flipping hard. Because we have lived our whole life one way, and along the way, our brain gets programmed, see a box of doughnuts on the counter, eat a doughnut, regardless of if we are hungry.  As far as nutrition goes, you have to put in the hard work to change the way you think about food.  A great first step is to educate yourself about serving sizes and portion sizes, educate yourself about nutrient dense foods vs calorically dense foods, and learn about moderation.  It is impossible to go through life and not eat foods that you love even if they are not nutritious, you just have to learn to eat them in moderation.    As far as exercising goes, make it a priority in your life.  Most of us everyday make ourselves go to work, even though we don’t want to we still go.  If you have to, make yourself go and exercise, no excuses.  If you can find a workout partner, even better.' 

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