Losing weight can be dispiriting, can’t it?
It’s easy to lose enthusiasm when the results don’t come as fast as we’d like.
The thing is though……..
We didn’t get discouraged, lose enthusiasm for and stop gaining the weight did we?
A silly parallel you might say.
Gaining weight was never the intention, was it?
It was a by product of what we did.
We did the processes involved because we wanted to and valued what they bought to us in the short term……..
And the weight gain was kind of a by product.
A side effect.
What could that tell us about trying to do the opposite?
That we need to want to do those processes because we actually want to and we value what they bring us in the short term, perhaps?
Any time we say we “ought to”, “need to” or “should”, we’re just saying that we don’t want to it.
We never say that about stuff we do want to do.
We never said “I need to start eating more than I need to”, did we?
We valued the process for the benefit it brought about immediately.
So could we view different food choices the same?
Not for the ‘side effect’ of weighing less in a month or twelve.
But for making us feel better straight away.
More energy and less bloatedness right now and tomorrow.
Or the same with exercise.
Better mood and mental health and less aches and pains immediately feels more likely to get done than “dying a bit older in a few decades”.
Whatever we feel we’re struggling to be motivated to do……..
How can we view it like the things we don’t struggle to do?
Where we want to do it for the immediate benefits it brings and what we value in that.
And there are, perhaps, beneficial long term side effects as well?
Much love,
Jon ‘sit out uranage’ Hall
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