Michelle, I'm glad you've found a way to be happy with yourself however I think you are misguided. If you're a 400lb individual who works out "internally", you're not healthy ... you're only kidding yourself (note: I'm not saying you're 400lbs, just making a point).
I am aware of underlying conditions that could work against you in terms of weight loss but more often than not, this is not the case.
To say that diet and exercise are not the answers to health and well-being people believe them to be is, in my opinion, nonsense. Diet and exercise go hand in hand with what you're speaking of ... this internal workout. If you cut these two vital elements out, you're setting yourself up for a joyless, unloving, and unfulfilled life where you certainly don't feel free from yourself much less anything else.
You mentioned that maintaining proper diet and exercising is too hard. It is hard, your body wants to hold onto fat ... that's a natural response that has to be overcome. However what must be realized is that you're preparing yourself for health later in life rather than death early in life.
I would request that you omit your unfounded bodybuilder comment from your post ... it's stereotypical and really unnecessary for your argument. For giggles though, I'll humor you ... I don't know many bodybuilders who have built up anger, nor resentment for the years of hard work they've put in. I've been body building for a decade now, I certainly don't have any regrets, I'm healthy both inside and outside ...
What it sounds like to me is that you give up too quickly. I've gathered this from the numerous diets you have tried (any successful attempt will usually last 6-12 months minimum and I assume you aren't well advanced in age therefore you haven't really attempted many of these properly). It should be noted that these "diets" are for the most part a joke. Weight loss follows a simple formula: Calories in < calories out on a daily basis. I don't understand why it is so necessary for people to over complicate this very basic mathematical premise. Giving up too quickly also seems evident by the comment that it is simply too hard. Most things in life of any worth come with hard work. Maintaining a harmonious marriage takes hard work, becoming healthy internally is hard work, succeeding at anything takes hard work ... etc.
I would encourage you drop the notion that it's too hard and get back to it. The hard work is worth it ... trust me, if you had to see what I see on a daily basis you would want to work hard. Too often people wish they had taken better care of their bodies. Had they done so there was a good chance they could have avoided the death and disease they are currently suffering.
Continue to build your internal strength, but make that coincide with the external as well ...
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