Exercise isn't punishment for what you ate or a chore you have to do. It's a chance to celebrate what your body can actually do. Shift that mindset and it becomes something you want to do, not something you're forced into.
Movement or exercise should not be an obligation ever. It should be a celebration of the body's aliveness, that we have been given hands, legs, legs to run, to climb, this fully functioning human body. And we get on our mats or we get on our exercise routines and we think, oh, I have to do this. But if we can change that, I get to do this with a fully functioning body, it changes our perspective and we enjoy each movement much more.
Just with food, right, we cannot see it, oh, I have to eat this boring food. Wow, such vibrant, energetic, colorful food. That's how we see it. So with exercise, we say movement should not be a punishment for what we ate yesterday. It should be a celebration of what we are doing today.