Be Your Body’s Best Friend

Be Your Body’s Best Friend

Think of what you do for your friends. You motivate them, encourage them to achieve their goals, support them when they’ve had setbacks, offer practical solutions for thorny problems, and praise them to the skies for progress and accomplishment. You can apply every one of these supportive actions to yourself as you go through various stages in your quest for fitness. Your friends can help you (perhaps you’ll even go at it with a workout buddy), but in the end, no matter how much support you have, no one else can make you get into shape. Only you move your own muscles. Only you control what food you put into your mouth. Being your own best friend will help you through the good times and the challenging parts of your new fitness program.
Look in the mirror. The person looking back at you is your best friend. There’s all sorts of help out there for you, but you need to get out and walk. You need to get to the gym. You need to watch your diet. Even if you sign on with a personal trainer or join a support group like Weight Watchers as a motivational mechanism, you have to take charge and get there. You are the only constant in your life. If you take care of your body and treat it the very best way you can, it will repay you with interest.
Encouragement and expertise are available from outside sources, but in the end, only you can set some reasonable goals, monitor your own progress, work through disappointments, and reward yourself for your gains. And wherever you go, you will be with your body’s best friend.