WHAT IS FITMENTAL ?
FitMental is a course and platform related to improving ones mental side in relation to diet and exercise.
What is FitMental?
How can it help you?
FitMental is a fitness program of a different sort. Instead of pointing you towards diets and exercises, the aim is to instead provide the tools that will improve your mindset towards your diet and exercise. This, in turn, will help develop your mental strength and help you to understand what you need to do to achieve your fitness goals and maintain your weight long-term.
Often when starting out and aiming to improve our fitness, our mind conspires to tell us when things get difficult, that it's not worth it. As a result, we often do the easy thing and quit when things don't go as planned. Starting and stopping gets us nowhere - every time we fail, it makes succeeding the next time that much harder. We gain baggage, in the form of negative thoughts, that we carry with us for every new attempt at changing ourselves for the better.
The good news is that we lose this baggage when we succeed - and anyone can succeed.
At FitMental, the aim is to change the way we think towards health, exercise and our bodies. To accept that challenges are a part of life, but they shouldn't derail us on they journey to our goals. When we improve our mindset, we can accept that challenges will arise and are able to handle those challenges more easily. By taking small steps and building consistency, it is possible to achieve our fitness goals.
Who am I?
My name is Dainis. Three years ago, I quit my job, became depressed and quickly gained weight. One day I decided to step on the scales and found that I was just short of 100kg (220lb). For my height and age, this was around 30kg (66lb) overweight.
I realised then that I was a burden to my family - I have a beautiful wife and daughter, and they deserved better. So, I got back on my bike, literally - I went for short bike rides, which turned into longer bike rides. I started to lose weight.
However, I didn't feel like committing to 90 minutes of biking every day, so I started walking. This was a little slow for me and I tried jogging. My knees hurt, my back ached, but I started to see results. Seeing the results motivated me to ignore the aches and pains and keep moving forward.
Two years later, I reached my ideal weight of 65kg (143lb) and have maintained that for the past year. During this three year period, I realised one extremely important thing that I wanted to share with others - becoming mentally stronger had allowed me to become as fit as I've ever been, despite getting closer to 50 years old.
This mental strength is what has led to me creating the FitMental platform - I'd like to share what I learned, in the hope that others too can stop hoping for some magical weight loss pill that will never come and instead, channel their energies on improving their mindset towards diet and exercise.
If you can successfully do this - train your mind to overcome setbacks, deal with temptation, become consistent with your exercise and dietary habits - then you can not only lose weight, but keep it off long-term. No need for diets or gimmicky products or the wasted money, time and frustration that goes with them.
You CAN do it! Welcome to FitMental.