You may have a lot of reasons in joining a gym, maybe for the weight loss plan or any other objective. Nothing's wrong with that unless the indicator you see is only for becoming slim, so yes this is the mindset that should be re-evaluated.
Surely when you realize if body does not work as simple as that, considering factors that can affect result from sleep pattern, eating habits, stress level and body metabolism.
In specific cases people can't still lose the weight regardless their activity at gym. Surely you don't want to think it as the sign of failure.
A mindset to fix and help you realize once again about those factors.
When you become active in a place like a gym, the result doesn't always show up right on the scale.
Since it can be seen on the increase of muscle mass, the loss body fat percentage, better posture and the increase in your stamina.
Unfortunately when your focus is only about the number on scale, you may have missed a lot of signs beside weight alone.
Such mindset can also make you more obsessed to look more slim with unhealthy approach, so they may do extreme diet, exercise without recovery or the cardio without practicing weights.
Supposedly gym is made to body can be stronger, not to look underweight, where it is your goal then you tend to run imbalanced plan.
Lack in consistency is the proof when something is wrong with the mindset. Moreover, people often stop attending the gym not because they are not capable or good enough to do the training there, but mostly when their expectation is too high or unrealistic expectation.
When you only hope for instant result then the progress relatively can feel so slow, and you may think if your effort is a total failure. This may lose the motivation and eventually you will lose your spirit to do so.
People also think if activity at gym as a "mandatory" or even punishment. So you are gonna lose the joy in first place, let alone building the body right.
Instead of aiming for a slim or even underweight body, then plan something more flexible and sensible like becoming stronger or healthier.
Once again be more flexible and avoid unnecessary pressure to yourself.
According to Health line the wrong mindset can actually lead to bad habits and obsession. Anxiety may also appear when the result is far from the expectation.
This thing can also make try to compare with others that certainly can break your confidence, while forgetting the facts if our body is different.
You may shift your focus to improvement in strength, training technique and with the consistency expect proven result. It keeps your motivation high and no pressure in getting the result as fast as possible.
The mindset is certainly the progress and its definition to understand better.
Don't make the definition for the progress too narrow and is solely focused on weight scale, and see something more than that.
The progress can be seen from more aspect even the the habit like sleep that feel better.
When you see it more in general then you won't feel failure that fast.
