Overcoming perfect body images: Finding a path toward fitness

Finding a path toward true fitness requires a lot of mental and emotional strength. The first step can often be the hardest, often because we don’t actually understand what that first step really ought to be. So what is the first step?

The first step on the path toward true fitness is to understand, not just in your head but in your heart and bones, that what others may say about your body is not necessarily true. And I don’t just mean amateurs and professional idiots. I mean nutritionists and dieticians who are far too willing to make blanket statements about people’s perfect size and weight. We need to understand that BMI is actually not accurate for everyone. Let me share an example to illustrate this. I am 5′9″. Based on my height alone, this BMI thing says that my ideal weight is 175 lbs. That is hogwash. My skeletal frame is too big for that, and my bones are too thick and dense for that weight. My chest, at it’s smallest during my adulthood, is 40 inches, because my bones and frame are big. These bones of mine are so dense that despite having played pretty nasty sports most of my life and taken several (many many) wicked spills, I have only broken my arm one time, and that was just a slight crack. Nothing too serious. If I lost all of my extra weight, I would likely weigh in at 190 lbs, at the very lowest. I would have to be emaciated to weigh 175, so the BMI is basically garbage. Stinky garbage.

So the point here is that we need, through study and serious thought, to determine individually what our own image of ourselves as a fit person is. WE need to do this. Once we do this, the next steps are not as hard, because we are allowing ourselves to dictate the goals and objectives. Our motivation comes from within, not from magazine pages or red carpet photo shoots.

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