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I want to do something today
Do something productive
As usual, I need to write to clear my mind
I thought about share about something I know
I want to talk about fitness. I planned to talk about getting fit 3 months ago by providing diet and exercise recommendation.
Yesterday, I watched an inspiring story about a guy called Jess at 2015 about a 700lb guy reduce his weight to 278lb. His video was produced by bodybuilder.com and his alias is wetbreats. His story sounds real success a total failure and regain health, self-confidence and career.
Yes sure 😃
However, the story stopped at 2017. I tried to track his latest progress down. No any updates from him after 2018. He tracked his youtube, IG, twitter and bodybuilder.com forum. The only clear message from him was his own youtube channel. His last video on 2018 admitted he gained 100lb back and he was losing momentum to do further progress. He admitted that he was not able to work hard as he used to be. He is full of negative energy at the point. After that, no more updates from him
I believe this is the truth of 90% of huge weight losers. They can’t keep their weight even though they all have inspiring stories. I searched the internet again and try to find similar stories. I found the latest report of the winners of the reality show “The winner of the biggest losers”. Almost all winners regained their weight in the next year. This is telling me that there’s something wrong if these “biggest losers”. It’s a fact that you are not going to keep your success with a very spiky change without a very long term tactical plan. Because all people are weak and are resistant to change. If you are natively a lazy person who have no drive to keep yourself up to shape, you hardly keep the drive to continue for long. Once all the applause, encouragement and support are fading out, you hardly keep yourself on.
We used to believe healthy lifestyle can be replicated easily by following the same healthy diet and regular exercises. However, I think the most important key factor is not what you eat and how you do exercise. It’s about the mind and the life pattern. More precisely, it’s about a consistent life pattern you can stick with. For fit people and someone with a strong drive, it’s never too much problem to them. For people who are lazy and get used to be very comfortable. it’s very hard for them to change from their existing lazy style to a very motivated style with a lot of self-control is required. How do you adapt yourself from an unhealthy style, make changes which can stay is more important than a short term dramatical success. This is something I believe it’s more important to all people who want to make changes which can last. More ideally, the change can keep yourself progressively improving, instead of a dramatical change. Certainly, it will still be up and down. However, it has to be long and effective with a positive trend of improvement. And the key is how to make your mind adapt to the changes you need to make improvement without bounce back. I need to find a formula to estimate the level of adjustment for people how much their mind can adapt with the right encouragement and trackable improvement to motivate people to keep going and stick the required changes and adapt to the new style and pattern without too much friction to pull them back
