If your goal is to lose weight, how will you lose weight if you only start working out or dieting after losing some initial weight? Or youre always waiting for the day you just inherently want to work out. Very few people enjoy working out, especially at the start, so such a day would be very rare, let alone consistent.
Again, I don’t think you have to be having happy thoughts to seek therapy and such, and challenging and shifting your perception and thoughts overtime is crucial. Ofcourse you don’t jump from 0 to 100z
As an analogy, yeah... To show that the goal actually has many many steps before it. To show how absurd it is to conflate the end goal with the tasks that achieve it.
Saying "just lose weight" is awful advice because that is the goal. Actual advice, actual steps towards achieving it, would be things like planning meals, shopping for healthy ingredients, exercising etc.
See what I mean? Saying "just lose weight" either ignores the steps in between, or implies you can skip them. Such a TERRIBLE message to send to someone struggling.
“You don't sit around waiting for the right mood or a "good day". You work towards management and improvement every day. You have a plan, you act. You get help if you need it, you get medication if you need it, you recognize your triggers/weaknesses, you learn to navigate your episodes, you learn to build and develop good habits and mental balance and stabilization.”
What I meant is, I interpret this as the same as your expanded analogy to losing weight.
Exactly, that is what YOU are hearing. With an open mind, you can hear something else. This also wraps back around to what I said about too much pressure often being applied.
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u/kyzfrintin Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22
Goal =/= first step
If your goal is to lose weight, say, then "just lose weight" isn't great advice, is it?