Some people exercise for health. Others exercise out of a sense of competitiveness or accomplishment(成就). But by far, the most popular reason that people hit the gym is to make their body look better. But simply changing the shape of your body isn’t likely to completely change the way you feel about your body. Let me explain.
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When you start a body transformation journey, it will be weeks—maybe months—before you see any significant differences in the mirror. If you’re just trying to lose fat, you’ll begin seeing results pretty soon. If you’re trying to gain muscle, though, it may seem like the process takes a long time. And if you want to gain muscle and lose fat? That takes even longer. You have to eat more to build the muscle, then diet off the fat, and repeat. An alternative would be eating the same amount of food you are now, and waiting for muscle and fat to change places, but that’s an even slower process than trying to do one and then the other. Importantly, the amount of muscle you can meaningfully gain in a few months (or even a year) is smaller than you might think.
You may never get your dream body.
Let’s say you keep working. You lose fat, gain muscle, put in years of work, and eventually do have whatever you dreamed at the start. Are you happy? For a lot of people, the answer is: not really. Maybe you can see your abdominals(腹肌), but you’re unhappy about your back. And when you compare your “after” picture to the celebrity you most admire, you might still feel like you’re coming up short. The truth is, if you got into exercise because you hate something about your body, you will probably always be able to find something to hate about your body. The problem was never their body in the first place. If you recognize yourself here, that doesn’t mean you need to quit the gym. Exercise can still be good for your physical health, and you can work through your mental health issues while also enjoying lifting some weights or going for a run sometimes, especially if your mental health issues are mild.
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