Are you ready to change?

In a recent interview with one of the Venus Index contest winners a very interesting point came up. It was the concept of being “ready to change”.

 

Time for Change

Is it finally time to change?

We all know that everyone is physically capable of changing, losing fat, gaining muscle and improving the overall look, shape and health of their body. But the physical aspect isn’t the rate limiting step, in almost all cases it’s the mental aspect.

In other words, are you mentally ready to change? Do you have the spark, the desire, the drive to put in the necessary effort to actually follow through and make it real.

This is where most people fall short and give up hope.

Not being ready to change doesn’t mean you’ll never be ready, it just means your not ready at that moment. Some people try and fail multiple times before it finally sticks. But when it finally works and you make it to your goal, you will then realize that you were never broken, but rather you just weren’t ready to commit to yourself yet.

Most of the diet and fitness media prey on this lack of self confidence and inability to get into a mental and emotional state to make a real change happen…they tell you stories of how your metabolism is broken and how you  just need to eat a certain food, or take a certain supplement, or do a special exercise and then it’ll all magically fall into place. They constantly distract you from the real stumbling block (mental and emotional readiness to take action) and tell you it’s some metabolic or nutritional trick…

What a load of BS!

Years of being out of shape takes a toll on your mind and emotions and your belief that you’re capable of making a change. Your mind starts to fill in reasons why you’ve been unsuccessful and you start to imagine that maybe you are the one unlucky person who can’t do it (and the diet and fitness media ride this way of self doubt and make it worse).

But I can assure you there is nothing wrong with you, you’re body is perfectly capable of shedding fat, developing muscle and being as fit and healthy as you want it to be…but it only happens when you’re finally ready and in the right frame of mind to make a change.

John

Posted by johnbarban in diet, Exercise
Tags: changing your body, gaining muscle, losing fat |5 Comments

5 Responses to “Are you ready to change?”

  1. mikenavin Says:
    May 3rd, 2011 at 8:47 am

    I had a guy in one of my classes I teach tell me that it had been a year since he was 80 pounds overweight and just coming off of a heart attack. but after that year, he was working out, dropped that 80 pounds, in his mid 50s and in the best shape of his life. that heart attack woke him up that he had to make a change. As Caroline talks about, you’ll be ready for that change at some point. Just need to wait for that right moment.

  2. yosun Says:
    May 3rd, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    what can a person do to be mentally ready for weight loss?

  3. Jeremy Says:
    May 3rd, 2011 at 7:45 pm

    I totally agree with this post. I believe mental focus is even more critical in achieving your fitness goals than the physical aspect. Mental focus is critical to achieve any goal in life. I almost lost my focus on my fitness goal in March of 2010 because I was out of the gym for three weeks straight, two from influenza and another week for work travel. I found it hard to get motivated to go to the gym for about a month after that, but did get back into my routine. In personal opinion, consistency going to the gym/working out along and “no excuses” are my main drivers.
    Jeremy

  4. VGregor Says:
    May 5th, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    Our mind is incredible in what it can does. It can make us believe in something that is completely out of reality and media are taking a big advatage of this. Good point on this. I think that in general we should speak about this problem more often, because it really makes people’s lives worse and they don’t even know about it!

  5. How to Win Two Fitness Contests Says:
    December 19th, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    [...] really changed her mind was seeing the results from the second contest and the fact that a lot of girls that placed in [...]

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