HEALTH
WORK OUT BECAUSE YOU LOVE YOURSELF
NOT BECAUSE YOU HATE YOURSELF By Suzanne Purton
Most people’s goals are to lose weight … they look at themselves in the mirror and they don’t like what they see. They take all the necessary steps to change this image in the form of punishing workouts in the gym and restrictive eating regimes. However, this method of change can only last so long until a point comes that the punishment is too much to bear, they get sick of looking at their body and hating it, the willpower fades 60
and they fall off the wagon and binge on all their favourite foods and stop all the exercising. And after doing this for a while, one day they find themselves staring at the mirror and once again hating the body they see before them, so back on that cycle, starting at the beginning again, and making those drastic, punishing changes which are not sustainable. So how about we change the scenario, and they looked at their body and said to themselves, “I love this body that I am in, but I feel that I could tidy it up a bit, I could nourish it from the inside out and Cibare Magazine
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I saw this statement recently which really made me think, this is exactly the opposite of why many people come to me for fitness sessions and nutritional advice.
