Changing Your Image of Your Image

This is a great article that I think gets to the heart of why millions of people go on a diet and exercise program, lose some weight, and then fall off just after a couple of weeks.

What author Tom Venuto comes up with is pretty similar to something I had come up with a numbers of years ago.

Basically, we put ourselves into a “box.” We tell ourselves “I am _______” and then we keep ourselves in that “box.” Why do we do that? Is it because our “box” is comfortable and we’re afraid to veer outside of it? More times than not, ya, that’s probably the answer.



And unfortunately, that’s why people continue to go on diets and exercise plans, only to fall back into their own ways after a short period of time. People think that all they have to do is change their eating, get on an exercise plan, and turning fat to lean will show up in no time.

But, unfortunately, THOSE are the easy parts. The mental part is the hard part. You have to WANT to change your self-image. You have to WANT to step outside that “box.” Don’t create a new “box,” just get outside your current “box” and do what you want to do and look the way you want to look. Once you change your self-image, then the eating and exercise plan you put yourself on will do the rest.

The article goes into steps you can take to change your self-image. Follow it. It may seem rather strange to be doing what he states but, trust me, if you follow his easy steps, you’ll reach your fitness goals (as well as any other self-image changing goal that you’ve set for yourself).

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