There is only one thing you need to 'graduate' from being unable to continue
The more you tend to give up easily, the more you should start by 'recording' things.
You have the desire to work hard, but
you just can't seem to keep it up.
You have motivation at the beginning, but
it starts to feel burdensome halfway through.
When I was a trainer, I received many consultations like that.
'I do intend to keep going.'
'I do have the desire to change.'
But,
you cannot continue.
Therefore,
'I guess I just have a weak will after all,'
you end up blaming yourself.
I was a very similar type myself.
Having a thin body has
always been a complex of mine.
Or rather,
my body wasn't very strong to begin with.
In my childhood,
I often went to the hospital for asthma,
and in elementary school, I caught the flu every year.
'My body is weak.'
That feeling
was always inside me.
That is precisely why,
when I started training,
'I want to change'
was a very strong feeling.
I wanted to build up my body quickly, and
I wanted to become someone I could be confident in.
I trained recklessly every day, and
I forced myself to increase my food intake, which I wasn't good at.
Honestly,
I think I was putting in a lot of effort.
That is precisely why
I wanted to change quickly.
But,
the body doesn't change immediately.
I know that in my head.
But,
every time I looked in the mirror every day,
'I'm still thin,'
'I haven't changed at all,'
days where I thought that continued.
Precisely because you feel like you are working hard, it becomes painful when you can't see any changes.
In fact,
the more serious a person is,
the more they tend to only look at what is 'still not enough.'
At such a time,
a trigger for my own way of thinking to change slightly arrived.
I was told by my company
to create an SNS account for personal trainers.
But,
honestly, I really didn't want to.
SNS is
glamorous.
Moreover,
I didn't even have confidence in my own body yet.
'Is it okay to post with a body like this?'
I was only thinking about things like that.
In the end,
what I posted was
my own training videos.
The menu I did that day.
The weight.
The number of repetitions.
A simple comment.
Thinking about it now,
it was completely a 'record'.
At first,
rather than broadcasting,
it was closer to just leaving a record.
The posts gradually piled up.
One time,
I looked back at my old posts.
That was when I realized.
'Oh, the weight is actually increasing properly.'
Up until now, I
was only looking at big goals like 'I want to lift X kilograms.'
Therefore,
I hadn't realized at all
that I was moving forward little by little.
It wasn't that I hadn't changed, but that I hadn't been able to recognize the change.
From there,
I started posting photos of my body little by little.
I started using SNS
as 'my own growth diary'.
There are days when things go well.
Conversely,
there are days when things don't go well at all.
But,
that also all becomes a record.
Therefore,
when I was in a bad state,
I made sure to look back at the records from when things were going well.
When I did that,
'I was doing this kind of training'
'The amount of food was different'
like that,
it became easier to see my own state.
People,
even though they remember when things didn't go well,
they surprisingly forget the feeling of when things were going well.
That is precisely why
I think recording is important.
Not to blame yourself, but
'To not lose sight of the fact that you were moving forward properly'
This was the same
when I was looking at my clients.
Therefore,
I had them take photos of their meals.
But,
the purpose was not dietary restriction.
'You shouldn't eat this'
I didn't want to do management like that.
What I valued was
finding together a form that could be incorporated into that person's daily life.
They aren't going to compete in a tournament.
They don't want to lose weight just for a moment either.
What is important is
being able to continue.
Methods that you can't maintain without forcing yourself
will become painful at some point.
Therefore,
not just 'what should I eat to gain weight,'
but 'what can I continue with little stress'
I was searching for that together with them.
Actually,
when you try recording,
you have discoveries like 'it's actually okay to eat this more than I thought.'
When that happens,
the fear of eating also decreases.
Even without excessive restraint,
the body changes little by little.
If you can have that feeling,
the stress of continuing also decreases.
Therefore,
what people who give up easily need
is not just spirit or guts.
'It is only because there is a sense of progress that you can continue'
Even with small changes,
if you can think 'Oh, I might be moving forward properly,'
people can move a little more.
Conversely,
no matter how hard you try,
if it only becomes 'still not enough'
'I haven't changed at all,'
it becomes painful.
The more a person can work hard,
the easier it is to get stuck there.
So first of all,
it is okay even if you don't try to change significantly.
Try recording just one thing
that you were able to do today.
It might not be that you were a quitter,
but that you just lost sight of the small changes.