Ok, fair enough. So why are diet and exercise programs so hard to stick to medium to long term? Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve done all that you say. I’ve worked out the holy Meal Plan that will bring my weight down far enough to meet my goals. I’ve worked out exactly which sets to do and which lifts are optimal.
And I do them. For a week or three. And something happens and I stop doing them. It feels like the failure point is not the first time going to the gym or the second, it’s somewhere around the tenth time.
People vary considerably in which habits stick, which habits don’t, and how much work any specific habit takes. To the extent that there is a “self”, I’d say it involves not how you are at any given moment, but the range of modifications accessible to you over time.
Yea, there are a bunch of other things that happen, including realizing you don’t actually want the thing and having a decaying initial momentum to do the thing. This strategy is mostly to help get over the fear of having to put in the same amount of effort every time and actually get started on doing the thing.
Ok, fair enough. So why are diet and exercise programs so hard to stick to medium to long term? Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve done all that you say. I’ve worked out the holy Meal Plan that will bring my weight down far enough to meet my goals. I’ve worked out exactly which sets to do and which lifts are optimal.
And I do them. For a week or three. And something happens and I stop doing them. It feels like the failure point is not the first time going to the gym or the second, it’s somewhere around the tenth time.
People vary considerably in which habits stick, which habits don’t, and how much work any specific habit takes. To the extent that there is a “self”, I’d say it involves not how you are at any given moment, but the range of modifications accessible to you over time.
Yea, there are a bunch of other things that happen, including realizing you don’t actually want the thing and having a decaying initial momentum to do the thing. This strategy is mostly to help get over the fear of having to put in the same amount of effort every time and actually get started on doing the thing.