Seriously... I'm better than you

What would you tell me if you came to me telling me that you're struggling with your weight loss process, whether is because of diet, workouts or both, and I told you, sorry, it is just that you don't have what it takes and I do, I'm better than you! Would you be happy with that answer or would you be affected? Probably, if it comes from someone who's close to you, you'll let those words affect you, maybe even if the person is not close to you. In some other cases you won't care about at all.

So here is what I have to say to you. Besides specific cases where someone has a condition whether is physical or medical, we ALL are equal when it comes about our anatomy and physiology. What I mean with this is that beyond what you can think, we all are capable of doing the same exact thing if you have to will to do it. The only thing stopping you from achieving your goal is yourself, in other words, your mind. You need to understand that your mind is a very strong weapon that can work with you or against you, but you have control over it, no one else does. So if you tell yourself that you can't do something you won't, and if you tell yourself you can do something you will. If you ever watched the movie "The Matrix" there is this scene when Neo is fighting Morpheus and he can't beat him, the Morpheus says something that trigger what followed during the fight, and what he said was "don't think you are, know you are". There's a difference between thinking and knowing. If you think you can do something, you'll find yourself trying to find out whether you can or not, but if you know you can, even when you haven't done it before, then you'll do it.

We all have the same goal here and is to lose weight to that point where you are happy and comfortable, but you MUST understand the equation in order to succeed and not quit. You expect results fast when you gained weight over a long period of time without effort. That is the first thing to take in consideration. You gained those 20, 50, 100 or whatever the amount of extra pounds you have over a long period of time by eating unhealthy, excessively and by being inactive, so trying to lose all of that weight in a short period of time takes a lot of effort, and sometimes the "short period of time" doesn't mean exactly 90 days like with P90X. Why? Because maybe you're completely out of shape when it comes about physical activities, or maybe you just have way too much weight to lose. The good news is that hard work pays off, and no matter how much you can do today. Actually whatever you do today will affect you in many ways, two of them are, allowing you to get stronger and develop stamina making you do more and better tomorrow, and the second is by making speeding up your metabolism so even when you're not working out your body still burns calories. My point is, it is human nature to get frustrated and wanting to quit because we don't get what we want right away, but if you look around, and you ask those who used to be overweight and now are in shape, what was the key to their success, the answer is "commitment" and with commitment quitting is out of the equation, because no matter what you will work hard every single day, giving the best of you to achieve your goals.

It is good, to have people encouraging you, but learn how to motivate yourself so whenever you don't have anyone around at a certain moment you still do your best. So am I really better than you? No I'm not, unless you decide to believe I am, but even then I will only be better than you to your own eyes, but not to the rest of the world

A piece of advice, don't try to understand how things work when it comes about calories and how they're affected by workouts and diets, you need to realize that these things are not something you learn in one week; if that was the case people wouldn't have to go to the universities and study for years to become nutritionists, or experts in such matters. Even if you were to get a certification in a vocational school, you still have to study for months, so trust the tools you use provided by this website among many others, pay attention to how your body reacts to what you're doing and modify to increase your results, remember we're all different and things doesn't always work the same for everybody.

Peace!

Yassel


Ps. Based on some replies I got, I'm not saying people shouldn't learn and educate themselves about what to eat and what not, or how many calories, and what will that affect. When I said don't try to understand how things work I'm talking about a more complex explanation of how our metabolism works starting from a molecular level from the moment we start chewing a piece of bread until reaches the rectum.