A short motivational YouTube clip by Jim Katsoulis advising viewers to be patient with weight loss by making personal development the primary goal. He argues that reframing weight loss as part of becoming the best version of yourself provides frequent, immediate psychological rewards (feeling empowered after healthy choices) while the actual weight loss follows more slowly.
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The more patient you are with your weight loss, the easier it's going to be. But how do you make yourself more patient? That's the big question. And the answer is that you make your weight loss secondary to your personal development. Make this process about becoming the best version of you possible, and your weight's part of that. And the beauty of this approach is that you get to instantly feel the benefit of all the good things that you're doing. You see, when it comes to weight loss, one of the only things that takes a while is the actual weight to come off. But if you orient yourself to how good you feel every time you make a good food choice, every time you get yourself to do something healthy, as you start to feel good about that, empowered, like you're developing into the person you want to be every time you do one of those things that starts to become your main focus. And in the back of your mind, you know that the weight loss is going to come as well. But this here starts to feed your need to get instant results. So start changing the way you think about this and focus on becoming the best version of yourself possible first, and let the weight loss naturally follow.