Psychological reason why it is hard to maintain long-term weight management
What makes long-term weight management so difficult?
While it is a combination of physiological, behavioral and psychological reasons, I’m going to focus on the primary psychological reason why people fail to maintain commitment to their fat loss plan. The simple answer is boredom.
Boredom
What is boredom? Many people may simply define boredom as dullness, disengagement, lack of interest, repetition, having too much free time, etc. In my opinion, while these meanings can be somewhat correct by simplified form, there is actually a much deeper reason why we experience boredom. Coming across with this article by accident, it made me realized that boredom is in fact the perfect psychological reason why many of us fail to adhere to our weight/ fat loss plan in the long run.
Excerpt from the article that I linked above:
Existential boredom defines an inability to find not just particular things but all of life interesting. It manifests itself as a mood in which, for no reason you can articulate, nothing seems to satisfy—even things that normally do. When you find yourself flipping from Internet site to Internet site; picking up a book, reading a few pages, and then putting it back down; walking around your apartment or house in search of something to do but finding nothing to engage you.
In short, we actually experience boredom because we fail to find a meaning or a purpose of something that we do or an event that is happening to us. In reality, anything can be boring or uninteresting be it watching tv, surfing the net, studying, reading, working out, etc. It appears like the key to counter react to boredom is to find the value or significance of that something to us.
Boredom in fitness
While we can have a boring diet due to monotonous variety of foods in a specific diet, that would be physical rather than psychological reason why people fail to adhere to their fitness plan. You may say what about doing the same repetitive boring workout plan? Is there actually a thing? In my opinion, any workout or diet plan can be psychologically restraining if we fail to see it’s significance to us. Think of it this way, when you first start your diet or a new exercise program, you are so motivated to do it because you have a reason why you need to do that. You probably want to look better naked, you want to have visible abs or what have you but my point here is we need to keep ourselves focused to that reason so that whatever we do, we will constantly find that something meaningful to us. That is how we prevent getting bored to our fitness plan in my opinion.
Why do you think I consistently update this blog for free while I could have been doing something else that is more productive? Because I find writing about fat loss meaningful to me and I want to share it to the world. See, it’s all about finding the real value of our fat loss plan to us. This is what makes us psychologically bulletproof from failing to be consistent in our fitness plan.
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