I kept trying different ways to psyche myself into losing weight and being fit. Some worked for a while, and then I had to switch. The most effective was starti

I kept trying different ways to psyche myself into losing weight and being fit. Some worked for a while, and then I had to switch. The most effective was starting body weight workouts, the first time I had ever tried weight training. I didn't try to improve my diet, but the observation of its impact on performance lead me to go meat-heavy, instead of fluffy pizza/burrito food. I can pig out to the max as long as it's on Five Guys, not Chipotle (two side by side options in my neighborhood). That probably improved my mentality over food overall, and I've taken to often choosing "the second option" over what I want: Diet Coke over Coke, peanuts over fries, no queso over queso, one slice of pizza over two. But this wasn't a top-down decision. Edit: Also, workouts changed the mentality from "don't be a fatlard" to "be 99th percentile in fitness" which is perfectly attainable, and positively motivating.