Handbook of Weight Management
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Why Manage Weight?
What drives you to loose, gain or maintain weight is important since it has a bearing to your mental health and mindset. If want to manage weight to look good, so long as your haven't put your happiness, confidence and other such emotions on your looks; the motivation is justifiable. Visual aesthetics is pleasing to the eye and there is no reason not to be visually aesthetic in a healthy way.
On the other hand, if you want to manage weight to feel happy or good about yourself, you probably need some psychological help. Happiness, blissfulness and content are states of mind that can be achieved by simply deciding to be so. All you need to do is train your mind it listen to you (the best way is through exertion) and sport a certain outlook in life such that no external factors can disturb your state of mind.
Putting these positive emotions on external and largely uncontrollable entities like your body weight is plain stupidity. The idea to do so roots from insecurity, philosophical misplacement or a deep injurious sense of materialism. You can never enjoy prolonged happiness this way because your good looks and figurative body does not last. At some point, age will catch up and your body will wither, or a medical condition could change your body quite early.
Similarly, if you want to manage weight to feel confident, you have misplaced your confidence. It is now easy to defeat your confidence too since it now lies on your looks, and looks don't last or the perception of what is good looking can be shaken with few critical feedback.
It is generally hard to define where should your confidence come from since the source of confidence is different from different activities. But generally speaking, your confidence should come from who you are and what you know; not from who you want to be. In the latter case, your confidence is built upon a non existing entity and therefore can be shaken by mere reminding of its non-existence, and then defeated.
If you want to manage weight for health or for some professional commitment, you have the right motivation. Your standards of weight management must be dictated by the medical science and professional requirements; not by the glamour industry hacking your perceptions of beauty and confidence.
Corrections?
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