Don't compare your now to their then...
Comparing ourselves to other people is part of human nature. We all do it. It's also a very unproductive form of thinking in my opinion. What purpose does it actually serve other than to make us feel a little worse about ourselves (usually anyway). This type of thinking is very common in the health and fitness industry.
What we need to remember, especially when it comes to fitness and body image is that life is a fluid concept. No single image that we see of someone in a magazine or on a movie screen is how they look the whole time.
The actor who looks like their abs are carved out of marble doesn't always look like that. Neither does the fitness model who got down to what seems like 0% bodyfat for a photo shoot. At best most of those individuals hit that bodyfat percentage for a couple of days, and then went back to a more sustainable level of fat.
We need to remember that comparing ourselves to others (especially those mentioned in the above examples) doesn't serve any positive purpose in our lives. So maybe it's time to cut out that type of thinking.
Everyone at every point in their fitness lives is changing. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a less than healthy way, but what we see at the gym, on the screen, and in the magazines is always only a snapshot of a particular point in time.
Oh and by the way, the same goes for you too. Where you are now isn't where you will be in 6 months time. So give yourself credit when it's due.
Instead of looking at a photo of someone famous (or even a friend) and saying that they look so much better than you. Remember that they didn't get that way overnight or by accident. It took a lot of hard work and they didn't start where you are starting from.
Use it as inspiration rather than letting it demoralise you - they started somewhere too. And you can get there too if you just keep believing in yourself and working at it.
What we need to remember, especially when it comes to fitness and body image is that life is a fluid concept. No single image that we see of someone in a magazine or on a movie screen is how they look the whole time.
The actor who looks like their abs are carved out of marble doesn't always look like that. Neither does the fitness model who got down to what seems like 0% bodyfat for a photo shoot. At best most of those individuals hit that bodyfat percentage for a couple of days, and then went back to a more sustainable level of fat.
We need to remember that comparing ourselves to others (especially those mentioned in the above examples) doesn't serve any positive purpose in our lives. So maybe it's time to cut out that type of thinking.
Everyone at every point in their fitness lives is changing. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a less than healthy way, but what we see at the gym, on the screen, and in the magazines is always only a snapshot of a particular point in time.
Oh and by the way, the same goes for you too. Where you are now isn't where you will be in 6 months time. So give yourself credit when it's due.
Instead of looking at a photo of someone famous (or even a friend) and saying that they look so much better than you. Remember that they didn't get that way overnight or by accident. It took a lot of hard work and they didn't start where you are starting from.
Use it as inspiration rather than letting it demoralise you - they started somewhere too. And you can get there too if you just keep believing in yourself and working at it.
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