208: Lifting without the urgency of weight loss

The Confidence Project Podcast · Sep 15, 2020 · 46m

You've done it, you know you have.

You decide you're going to lose weight so you start some sort of challenge or commit to some sort of "new lifestyle" in which you are expected to "stick to the plan" hell or high water so that you can have a "good" weigh-in and have "good" progress photos.

But what happens after you drop out of diet culture?

Do you stop lifting?

Do you want to keep lifting but find that you're not as "motivated"?

First, motivation is not a reliable source of get shit done.

Even when you thought you were motivated to workout in order to lose weight... that wasn't motivation…