Monday, November 21

“Slim Thought” I do what I can, when I can for as long as I like

“Fat Thought” I have to do heaps of exercise to lose weight

There is a common idea that excess weight will only come off if you do frequent, grueling exercise. When people have this idea about exercise, they push themselves so hard that they either injure themselves or end up resenting exercise all together. Actually this idea alone can lead to weight gain. Why? Remember when you started trying to exercise hard to get that excess weight off, and then you pushed yourself so hard that you ended up hating exercise, so you gave up and did nothing for a few months only to realize that you’d gotten bigger?
A similar idea we’ve heard a lot, is that if you over-eat, you have to work hard to burn it off. Using exercise as a form of punishment is extremely detrimental to long term healthy habits. Focusing on guilt, judgment and punishment are all such strong negative emotions; they will allow you to push through a grueling 1hr work-out once, but your capacity to keep this up will only diminish over time...  to the point where you may feel like you just can’t do anything active at all… Fat people have locked in exercise as a fat burning strategy; they use it to get the weight off… So what happens once you are slim? 

“Slim Thought” I do what I can, when I can for as long as I like
The key to being slim is always a matter of sustainability in all matters, especially activity. It doesn’t matter what you do, for how long or even how intense it is. What matters most is that you enjoy being active regularly. When you choose the forms of activity that appeal most to you (E.g. Walking, swimming, team sports, dance classes etc.) rather than (Weights, spin classes, mountain climbing ect); you are placing good feeling into the concept of activity. Slim people love to move and always choose to be active when they want to, and only for as long as they are enjoying it. It’s because of this attitude to activity they’ve got such good feelings around activity that it empowers them to be consistent. It’s consistently enjoying feeling good while being active that will help you become slim and stay slim.
For slim people, exercise/activity is not merely a fat burning outlet. They choose to be active for multiple reasons. They want to be active to feel good, enjoy the weather, have fun with family or friends, take time-out for themselves, or even to reflect on their day or clear their mind.

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