Category Archives: Self Image

Self Image can be one of the main motivating factors for someone to develop a personal fitness program to improve their appearance. These articles discuss self image issues and how beginning a healthier lifestyle involving diet and exercise can help improve your self image.

January 26 2012

How I lost 65 lbs through diet and exercise!

I weighed 184 pounds. My pants had gone from size 8 to size 15. That was after only a few months of wearing maternity pants! When I first tried on a pair of size 15 pants, I was shocked and depressed. Click here to read how Jessica lost 65 lbs!

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September 27 2011

The Excuse Rationalization Trap

Shareby Chad Ciri, CPT How many times have you said, or heard people say: “I’ll just wait until this last obstacle is out of the way, then I’ll really get serious about getting in shape.” It disheartens me to say that I hear it WAY too often as a fitness professional. Week in and week [...]

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May 29 2011

Accept Your Body and Learn to Have a Positive Self Image

Because thin females and muscular males are seen as the ideal in our society and because we have come to believe that body size and shape are totally under a person’s control, most people enter diet and exercise programs with unrealistic goals and expectations. If you continually strive to achieve a socially imposed ideal, you will never be free of your insecurities or your self-consciousness. You must truly realize and then learn to accept that we are not all meant to be fashion-model size.

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