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This post is about how negative thinking can affect your exercise routine. If you have been struggling with exercise, it might be your head, not your body.

• You Are What You Think – Beat Negative Patterns of Thinking

The best advice from this post:

Carry around a pocketful of paper clips. Every time you have a negative thought about yourself, hook the paper clips together in a chain. Often clients become motivated to change because they are surprised at the length of the chain at the end of the day.

This is a good way to gauge how much you beat yourself up. You cannot get to goal and stay there by constantly berating yourself. You have to learn to love yourself enough to do what you need to do to be at your ideal weight.