The human ego is such that we all delude ourselves as to our outer looks, we presume attractiveness in the eyes of our desired sex-partners and much of how we perceive ourselves is how we want to be rather than how we really are.
When change happens to our body in terms of things like excess weight gain, while logically we know that we have become much fatter, we delude ourselves that our weight gain is not so bad.
And one thing that makes this happen is that our brain is dominated by our emotional wiring - not our logical powers of reasoning.
Another reason why this self-delusion is so because the change to our body happens gradually over a period of years - certainly not simply because we had a massive feast one day.
The greatest impact on our outward appearance is our testosterone level and it is a simple fact of life that with our modern technology-based lifestyles, we simply don't cause our brain to maintain higher levels of this essential hormone.
That is, because our daily routine has almost no physical stress in it, our brain has turned down our natural production of testosterone to adapt to a lifestyle not requiring very much testosterone at all.
Not only does the much lower levels of testosterone cause weight gain and muscle mass loss, it also impacts on our energy level and others see us not as vital or energetic and so less attractive.
Because modern life is filled with machines that enable us to avoid physical work, we must take proactive steps to boost our testosterone.
The best way to achieve this by taking diet supplements like Tongkat Ali tree root extract because it is a stimulant of testosterone production.
When combined with about 7 minutes a day of muscle-burning exercise each day, Tongkat Ali extract acts to cause our testicles to be more successful with producing more testosterone, which of course returns us to a higher vitality and energy level for greater physical effort and muscle growth.