Short advice video by Jim Katsoulis arguing that the main barrier to losing weight is lack of true motivation, caused by framing weight loss primarily as improving appearance. He recommends giving the process deeper meaning—linking weight to lifespan and life quality—to increase motivation.
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How to motivate yourself to lose weight. So the first challenge you have to overcome in order to lose weight is to get motivated to lose weight. Because right now, you're not motivated. You wish you'd lose weight, but you don't actually want to. You don't want to do the things you need to do to actually lose the weight. And that is because of the way that you think about weight loss. You primarily think of weight loss as a process of looking better, and that's not going to be enough motivation for you. It hasn't been this far, has it? So you need to give this process more meaning than just looking better. Now, the good news is that that's easy to do. Your weight is directly tied to how long you will live and the quality of your life while you're living those years. So as you give this process more meaning, you instantly start tapping into more motivation.