There are two insights that helped me do well in that regard — 80% of the work is done in the kitchen. Getting your nutrition right is far more important than

There are two insights that helped me do well in that regard — 80% of the work is done in the kitchen. Getting your nutrition right is far more important than anything else. — Integrating physical activity in your life through low friction means. The main roadblock here is the psychological burden of exercising regularly when you don't want to. Hence the more of that burden you offload by integrating it as a habit, the easier it will be. Most of your efforts are to be directed towards making physical activity as friction free as possible These in turn have their own corollaries — Thinking in terms of specific diets invites failure as opposed to thinking in terms of lifestyle and changing your relationship to food — Separating exercise as this high-priority activity that you have to do is an invitation to failure as well, as it increases the psychological burden and unconscious resentment. It's far easier to rediscover the inherent pleasure of physical activity as you sense your strength build and your muscles and heart activate.