Some people eat healthy, go to the gym, go running, don’t drink alcohol and make it look easy. They are not sacrificing anything, they just have that mindset and life happy like that and they make it look really easy.
For other people the biggest challenge to get fit is to take action and keep their motivation.
Some people can’t imagine themselves being happy if they don’t eat what they are eating now, if they can’t be lazy or if they have to stop smoking.
There are hundreds of thousands of pages published on nutrition and exercise but they are all worthless if you don’t apply them. This article is about creating the mindset to embrace a lifestyle that will let you be happier, live longer and look better.
Manny people start their weight loss quest with an overly optimistic attitude and think that it will somehow be easy. This may be because you believe in the marketing tactics that supplement companies use and all the headlines on the magazines with their “Ripped abs in 3 weeks” articles. You have to be prepared for the challenge, losing fat is not easy. Especially for people who like to eat and sit on the couch.
To ensure that you have success in your objective to feel and look fit you need education on the subject, you need commitment to your body (eating habits and exercise)… and you need to not quit doing those things.
People get fat because they like to eat a lot, are lazy and don’t like to do exercise. If you are in one or more of those categories you have to accept that you have to adjust your lifestyle, your eating habits and your exercise habits. You can lose weight by doing crash diets and intensive training schedules but if you lapse back to your old habits it will be a big waste of time, sweat and effort. You will get that fat back faster than you got rid of it and you will feel miserable because of it.
Worst of all, most people that regain weight get even heavier than they were before they started their weight loss journey.
Crash dieting and exercising like crazy can lead to a six pack but that is only theory and I will explain why. Manny people somehow believe they can get ripped in a ridiculously short time frame with no prior experience because they believe the tv ads.
Then they start their quest for muscular definition and quit before achieving their objective. Some people aren’t even aware that they quit because they thought that it was too much suffering, so much exercise and eating too healthy… These people quit before they started or you can say they didn’t really start.
As I just said, crash dieting and exercising like crazy can get you a six pack (if you don’t quit), but going to old habits again will destroy it… what can you do?
The solution to this is to change your lifestyle by gradually implementing habits that you can commit to in the long term. The difference between lifestyle and a “diet” is the commitment: a diet is something temporary that you can’t wait to finish. A lifestyle change is integrated into you daily habits and is not a chore.
These habits have to be compatible with you and your life because you can’t implement things that are unpleasant and a big sacrifice. Doing things that you don’t like will not make you happy and you can’t keep them up forever.
Most people go on a diet and it is a chore, a sacrifice. This sacrifice will help lose weight and once they achieve their objective – they can go back to their hamburger and coke eating and drinking habits (the big majority can’t even achieve their objective… they quit).
Guess what… the human body can gain fat just as fast and it can lose it. People go back to their bad habits and gain their weight back and put some more on it to have a new body weight record!
If you have to do things that you do not like, if it is unpleasant it will be such a boring chore that you will hate it and lose motivation quickly. You will start thinking that “It is not worth it… its too hard. Having a six pack and looking good is a superficial goal anyway… I wanna be who I am… I don’t wanna exercise…” and that is loser talk.
You get fit because it is healthy and it looks good. You will live longer and be happier because of it.
To be able to lose weight and get six pack abs you need to make changes to your lifestyle and commit to them. This will help you keep your motivation and it will make you happier, because you will enjoy your new life more and you will see results. In other articles I will give you lifestyle tips to get lean and healthy and you will be surprised that many of these tips are easy to apply.
You have to apply one tip at a time so you don’t get overwhelmed. This way you can internalize these tips and adapt to them gradually without it being a big shock. When you think about the long term it is easier to stay committed to these changes. I hope you enjoyed this article on how to get the right mindset for six pack abs and weight loss!
Great site. Gives me the motivation to lose weight this year. I hate being fat!