Any hint of “prove you’re a worthwhile person by how much you can make yourself endure” or “not being fat is the most important thing in the world”[1] is apt to be demotivating.
Do you have other contexts in which the existence of additional goals discourages you? Can you pin down exactly what it about the other goals that discourages you? For example, can you distinguish the effect on you of other people using an exercise to not be fat and the implication that you should?
Do you have other contexts in which the existence of additional goals discourages you? Can you pin down exactly what it about the other goals that discourages you? For example, can you distinguish the effect on you of other people using an exercise to not be fat and the implication that you should?