Why Optimism Can Make You Fat
According to a Georgetown workout expert, everything starts with the brain...
your thoughts! It's true that you essentially become what you eat, but it is even truer that you are the product of your mental processes.
Therefore, if you are overly optimistic about your current physical condition, your chances of losing the weight, or how you go about reaching your goals, you can actually hinder your own progress.
Your optimistic thoughts can in fact make you fat! This is a shocking premise to embrace, but it has been proven through the professional workout experience of a fitness trainer who is now putting it all on the line and showing his clients and the rest of us how to actually lose weight, get rid of fat, and stay lean forever.
If you are wondering how being too optimistic can stand in the way of your goals and making you fat, consider some optimistic thoughts that may sound all too familiar: "I don't look that bad!" "I'm not the fattest person in the room, so I must be okay.
" "I can skip one little workout.
It won't hurt.
" "Tomorrow is a new day! I'll try harder then.
" "I'll start on Monday.
" "It's just one cookie.
" "One meal doesn't matter in the long scheme of things.
" These thoughts may seem completely harmless and there may be some truth to some of them in the moment, but they are destroying your chances of getting healthy, shedding fat, and looking your absolute best.
Let's be a bit more specific here: the type of optimism presented in those all-too-common thoughts presented above will make you fat.
They essentially become excuses that enable you to skip workouts, eat food that contributes further to your weight problem, and do other behaviors that are destructive to your health.
Yet you can change over to a better kind of optimism.
You can essentially counter those destructive thoughts with optimistic thoughts that encourage you to do the best thing for your health.
Instead of thinking one bad meal or one missed workout is no big deal, immediately correct yourself and think "it's just one quick workout.
I can do this," or think "this one meal could add a pound of fat or more back onto my body.
Is it really worth it?" The trick here is to catch yourself when you are thinking optimistic in a negative way and replace those thoughts with more productive optimistic thoughts.
It takes some work at first, but you can start just by paying more attention to the thoughts that are constantly running through your head.
Learn to pick out the ones that are allowing you to sabotage yourself and you will be on the road to overriding them with better thoughts.
This is the type of information that one Georgetown workout expert is now revealing to his clients and the rest of the world.