When you are having a difficult time forgiving yourself for when it comes to the topic of weight loss then you will have a hard time moving forward.
You see if you are holding on to self-criticisms over your past weight loss failures or for regaining all of the weight that you did lose (plus some!), then you might just find yourself stuck in a rut of non-motivation. After all, why would you want to try to change your lifestyle again if it didn’t stick last time and you ended up regaining the weight that you worked so hard to shed?
This is a difficult challenge to overcome, and it does take a weight loss mindset in order to do so.
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I have to agree that you have to forgive past failures in losing weight but you need to learn as well.
The thing that stops people in the third and fourth weeks of a diet or exercise program are the problems that they have had in the past. If you failed you seem to remember that and do not really believe in yourself.
A better way is just to make sure that you are doing all the right things and avoiding all together those tough things be them exercise you don’t like or being around food that is bad for you and not something that you can have control to avoid.
Hi Bill, thanks for your comments!
I agree that it is important to learn from your mistakes. This exercise though, is only about forgiving yourself for past weight loss failures that you are holding against yourself presently, those things that can keep you from even taking action to lose the weight today. 😉