Summary:
Molly challenges what you’ve heard about exercise for this episode of Weight Loss for Food-Lovers. She provides tips on how exercise affects your body and how to implement an exercise routine that fits the stage you’re in.
Going back to the core of Molly’s weight loss plan, this episode frees you from the guilt of hitting an unrealistic exercise goal to be able to lose weight. Without over exercising but by simply changing your mindset you can start to see real results. Molly not only gives tips for what kinds of exercise is best while you’re working to shed pounds but she also dives deep into how you can incorporate exercise into your life for enjoyment. Whatever you relationship with exercise, Molly breaks it down to simple, easy steps to creating a healthy mindset and a healthy body.
By starting small you can begin to build momentum off the progress you feel and the more accustomed you become to that feeling, the easier it is to replicate it day in and day out. Molly’s tips provide the backbone to a healthier lifestyle and restores your relationship to exercise to one you can feel good about.
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Topics Covered
· Exercise does not need to be a part of your weight loss process, it’s important to separate the two.
· By separating exercise from losing weight, you remove those thoughts that creep in and can derail your weight loss efforts.
· When your body is in the process of burning fat and losing weight, it prefers to stay in a loss mode.
· Exercise is something you can continue if you feel like you have a healthy relationship with it
· If you want to do walking or you want to do yoga or you want to do some sort of moderate exercise while you're losing weight, it can be a compliment
· Three pillars of building a new habit of exercise
o Commit by making a plan that's easy to follow through on in the beginning so that you have that evidence that you can do.
o Make it fun, because if it’s not fun you’re not going to do it
o You need to manage your mind if you're exercising, rigorously
Key Quotes
· “Put more of a focus and more of an emphasis on what you're eating And much less of a focus if any, on exercise.”
· “I didn't do it [exercise] thinking that it was going to help me lose weight and let me tell you, it made a huge, huge difference for me.”
· “that old diet mentality is really hardwired and there's so many of us who think, ‘Oh, if I exercise, maybe I can eat a little bit more’, and even though we know that that doesn't really work, we default to doing it anyway.”
· “That diet mentality is so sneaky and so pervasive you have to constantly be on the lookout for those old thoughts resurfacing.”
· “You have to constantly work so you don't fall back into that trap of thinking you need to completely deprive yourself or over exercise to lose weight.”
· “Your body doesn't want to be depleted of fat if it thinks that you're going to be burning a lot of energy.”
· “What I suggest is a way to not only streamline the process, but also make it much simpler to focus on and follow is to really devote a lot of your mental energy into what do you eat and in managing your mind.”
· “Once you've lost the weight, you can start incorporating more rigorous exercise into your day-to-day routine.”
· “When you get to this place where you've lost the weight and you're interested in incorporating more rigorous exercise is that you decide what the minimum amount is that you can commit to on a daily basis.”
· “Figure out what really keeps you motivated, that helps you hold yourself accountable.”
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