Who are you exercising for?
That is the first and most important question to ask yourself.
Exercise has to be about you. It has to be about your desire to feel better, your urge to move, your need to make a change or to assert your right to a better life.
Any measurement of progress has to be relative to you as well. Did you move more than yesterday? Do you feel better than you did a week ago? Can you move more easily than you did before you started? These are all important Self-related measurements. Only the Self-related measurements matter, because nobody else is in your skin.
Don't measure yourself by external standards. Don't compare yourself to others. This will only lead you to doubt and despair, which will send you right back to another cycle of your favourite bad habits.
Chances are, you got this way by putting other people and their opinions and needs ahead of your own for a very long time already. It's time to put YOU first now. You deserve it.
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