Anyone who has ever tried to start on a weight loss initiative knows how much inertia is involved in getting started. This is even more so if someone wants to start on an exercise or fitness program. A lot of this inertia has got to do with the balance in one’s fitness account. The tremendous inertia could be caused by an overdrawn fitness account. Or someone could also have so much of  “fitness debt” that he or she is “fitness bankrupt”.

Your Fitness Account

Everyone has a mental fitness account. Imagine this to be an imaginary check and balance of your fitness initiatives. You make deposits into this account by exercising, eating healthy and practicing habits that you know will affect your weight loss and fitness goals. You make withdrawals every time you don’t exercise or eat food that cause you to gain weight or loose fitness. Everything that you do either adds to this account or subtracts from it. The balance in this account affects you mentally and physically.

The Physical Effect of a Positive Account Balance on the Body

The higher the balance in your fitness account, the more abuse your body could take. If you have a high account balance, you could probably go on a holiday and do nothing but eat pizza and yet return home with negligible weight gain. You have built enough buffer into your body to take that abuse.

The Mental Effect of a Positive Account Balance on the Body

A positive balance also means that you could go on a holiday like the one mentioned above, and yet be able to come back to your healthy lifestyle without much effort. The positive account balance ensures this. Having a positive balance keeps you exercising and being vigilant and mindful of what you eat.

A Negative Balance in the Fitness Account

The same applies on the other end of the spectrum. Some people have made so many withdrawals that their account is overdrawn. Some even have a bankrupt fitness account. These people could never imagine themselves exercising. They have no control over the food that they eat. Any initiative that they take to regain control does not bear fruit as they are just in too much fitness debt.

These people get easily swayed by distractions. The first challenge that comes along will throw them off-track. They do not have enough account balance to mentally and physically deal with a challenge.

Can Someone Become “Fitness Wealthy”

Just as a bankrupt can become a millionaire, so too can a “fitness bankrupt” become “fitness wealthy”. Like a financial bankrupt, it just going to take a lot of hard work. Its going to take a lot of patience by continuously exercising and eating healthily to make the continuous deposits. These deposits must be made continuously to benefit from the upward momentum of effort. Eventually all the fitness debt will be paid off and one can start reaping the rewards of one’s hard work. This could be achieving your weight loss goal or living a life inclined towards health and fitness. The beauty is that the rewards or the penalties come with interest.

There comes a point when once sufficient deposits are made into the fitness account, one will cross the threshold. This is the threshold where the mental pain of not exercising is much more than the physical pain of exercising. At this point, what can be sure that he or she is firmly on the upward spiral.