A lot of people drop out before they even get started. The reason lies most often in the absence of a momentary result. “Kaaak? – I’ve been on a diet for a week now and went to the gym three times, why haven’t I lost weight / pumped up yet?” – approximately such thoughts come to mind when looking at myself in the mirror.

These thoughts come to absolutely everyone who enthusiastically embarked on the path of transformation. The only difference is that someone understands that he hurried up with expectations and goes on quietly. And someone simply simply gives up this thankless task, once again making sure that “your fitness does not work, it’s better to eat deliciously, we live once,” etc. And not realizing that the first results can be seen 3-6 months after the start of regular exercise, if the goal is muscle hypertrophy. And if the goal is to lose weight, then the results are noticeable after the first month (not a week).

As for the heroes, they didn’t quit, but continue to fight with themselves and laziness. Complete satisfaction with their appearance is an extremely rare guest for their consciousness, despite the fact that they have been training for years. Paradoxically, the more you train, work on yourself, the more it seems that “something is wrong with me”, nothing changes, and in general there is a complete feeling that you are marking time in one place, and there is no progress.

Often these thoughts come from comparing yourself to others. And not with those others who did not hold dumbbells in their hands and did not count calories, but with those who are cooler, with fitness stars: Natalya Melo, Katya Usmanov, Denis Gusev, Dmitry Yashankin, etc. and so on. We look at dry bodies, photoshopped in places in the photo, we see separation, muscle fibers, the absence of fat, and we also want to, but we don’t see all the pitfalls, of which there are many. We reproach ourselves for an extra gram of carbohydrate oatmeal and an apple at night, we kill ourselves in everyday training, frantically count calories. And the reflection in the mirror still does not reach the cover of the magazine “in shape” or “mens healht” (there is no photoshop in life).

We also like to compare ourselves with those who are lucky with genetics and in general, with whom it is stupid to compare.

Don’t compare yourself to a mesomorph if you are a natural ectomorph.
Don’t compare yourself to a girl who eats and doesn’t get fat when you get fat just from the smell of pizza.
Don’t compare yourself to a bodybuilder who is on steroids and you only drink. protein after workout.
Don’t compare yourself to an Olympic champion when you skipped physics at school.

But in order to notice progress, it is enough to rummage through your old photos. I’m sure you will be surprised and dumbfounded. “Is this fat piece of fat was (a) me?” or “Did I really have such matchstick legs and a flat bottom?” “And what kind of vermicelli hands with a complete absence of biceps are these?” Then look in the mirror objectively and take another picture of yourself. Make a before-after collage. Impressed a little? And you say there is no result. And believe me, all the people who tell you that you have changed / prettier / lost weight / pumped up, they are not lying. They don’t just want to cheer you up (why would anyone cheer you up anyway?)

Compare yourself to yourself in the past, no matter how trite it may sound. And most importantly, don’t quit. You can’t buy training experience in a sports nutrition store, you can’t buy it in one day, you can’t get it with genetics, you can’t win the lottery. This is something that you can build yourself and for which you will be grateful only to yourself.