Hey, so I've tried several times to start working out and eating healthier. My problem is that I feel like I'm doing it with a wrong mindset thus always quitting out of frustration. I think my longest run of doing fitness was one year long. I'd go to the gym every day and eat healthy. I'd count calories and learned how to cook my own healthy meals. At first I saw lots of change, my weight dropped like crazy and my clothing size went down. However I remember getting onto the scale almost every day and when my weight didn't go down I wouldn't eat that day. One day I quit because my weight wasn't going down. Looking back I was almost underweight and that's probably why. But even then I felt fat and ugly and useless. I started to love my body more the way it is over the years but I'm not quite there yet. People always tell me "if you don't like your body then work out". I've tried working out several times but I feel like the mindset of working out just for the purpose of loosing weight is holding me back. I need to start working out because I want to be healthy or because I want to battle my mental illnesses or because I don't want to be tired all the time. Those are the things I tell myself but at the end of the day I'll stand in front of the mirror and look at the size of my stomach.
Has anyone experienced something similar? How did you change your mindset?
Also unfortunately therapy is not an option for me. I recently quit going because I didn't like my therapist and the method of therapy. Now I have to wait 2 years before I can go to therapy again
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