Change your mind, change your body

Here's a short but interesting article on how destructive thinking can erode your workout efforts. It's apropos of something that I recently saw about what happens to the people from the Biggest Loser after the show is over. While many of them seem to keep the weight off, a significant percentage gain back quite a bit, if not all of it. When interviewed, those who had gained the weight back all said they felt a great deal of their weight gain was due to not changing their thinking about themselves. Since they still defined themselves as people who got a bag of potato chips every time they went to 7-11, or who got their In-n-Out "animal style," they picked right up where they left off when they returned home. Lock any of us away somewhere where we are forced to workout 2x/day for 3 hours and provide us with only 1200 calories per day (and while you're at it offer us $250K to lose the weight), and we will look like anchovies too. But remove that "we're gonna make you do it" mentality, and it's up to you to make your own decisions. And what do you base a great deal of your decision-making on? What you think and how you feel about yourself. Alright, that's enough. Doctor of psychology- out! :)