Self conscious vs. Self aware
Sometimes when I deal with severely over weight people they are very self conscious. They are so concerned with how they look, the numbers on the scale or what people think about them. Because they are so self conscious their self awareness decreases.
Story time: This woman comes in and says that she is ready to give up because of the 10 lbs she lost in the last 3 weeks, it came all back on over the last week. So I asked her how her clothes fit when she was down the 10 lbs, she said that she was able to take her jeans off with out unbuttoning them. Then I asked her how her pants fit now, she said they fit the same. So, her pants fit the same now as they did when she was down the 10 lbs, but she got freaked because the scale went back up. She is so self conscious about the scale that she missed how her pants are still fitting the same as they did when she was 10 lbs down.
Self awareness vs. Self consciousness. Some one who is self conscious will have a greater difficulty staying motivated because they will forget all the positives they have accomplished if one negative surfaces. They will also have a harder time learning exercises because they are so self conscious about how they look. They think they look silly, which increases their self consciousness and decreases their self awareness.
