Firstly, I want you to know that YOU have the every bit of strength inside of you to take action and make a change. At one stage of my life, losing weight felt closer to impossible than anything else.
The point when I knew I had to take action was when a doctor told me that if I don't start to lose weight, I could actually die. This woke me up big time.
Now what is the single greatest challenge that we have when it comes to losing weight – taking action. How many of you have put off losing weight for over a year, put it on the back burner and convince yourself that you will get to it someday? That was me!
How long do we really have? Think your life like the seasons, most of us are in the summer period of our lives but soon the winter will come and our lives will be coming to an end. How are you going to use your life? Are you going to stay fat and do nothing about it? The harsh reality is that human beings are far more motivated to do something because they fear the consequences of not doing it, rather than being motivated by something they want to gain.
If I am scaring you a little bit then it’s out of love more than anything else, I am prepared to do anything to get you to the place that I got to. It’s so worth it i promise!
Once I made the commitment to finally start losing weight, I went looking for a product that could assist me. After countless failures with weight loss products that I had bought, I was ready to give up on finding something that actually worked for me.
Then out of nowhere, a friend send me an e mail with a weight loss e book that she found some where online. After all the products I tried, I was skeptical at first. But I gave it a chance and after reading the first few pages I realized that this book was unlike any other weight loss book I had ever read. I ended up reading it cover to cover and can truley say that this book changed my life!
I’m going to share some ideas here with you from the book (I’m not allowed to advertise here so can’t give you the name of the book), so don’t give me any credit for this info.
I’m paraphrasing so this is just to give you some general ideas....I really hope this helps you as I did for me..
Question:So what is keeping us from loosing the weight? Answer:We are keeping ourselves from success, NOT circumstances - Us.
So just for a second, let's dump everything we know or have ever learnt about weight loss. Maybe it's time for a paradigm shift.
Everyone in here is intelligent enough to know that there is no magic pill. If you think there is then good luck finding it and report back please!
Internal Processes and External Results
Basically, before an external result can be achieved, something internal needs to happen or change. So maybe we are focusing in the wrong area? When you think about
loosing weight, what do you think about? Maybe some of these words come to mind: jogging, treadmill, exercise, healthy eating, eating less, vegetables, etc. You get the point. All these words are external, physical things. Now don't get me wrong, these things are responsible for getting the weight off, but how do these things manifest? Something internal has to take place before you do one or more of the external things.
Two examples:
1. Negative Internal Process:"Nothing I try works, I just can't loose the weight. Who cares what I look like anyway."
External result: Eat more than needed, refrain from exercising.
2. Positive Internal process: "I really want to look great for the wedding in 6 months."
External result: Run on the treadmill everyday for 20 minutes.
So instead of cultivating the external processes of weight loss, let's focus on the internal processes which are directly responsible for the external results.
It's like we have been doing it backwards, let's start with the inner stuff. And how do we do that? That's a great question!
Lets dig in....
The 7 steps to achieving a weight loss orientated mind (I'll just start with the first 3 because it's getting late and I'm tired).
I have kind of just summerized it here, but you will get the idea.
Step one- Your ultimate scenario
Think of an idealized image/event where you look thinner and feel great.We are going to refer to this as your Ultimate scenario. What is your ultimate scenario?
See the next level of your life - write it down - what does it look like? Write down how you feel inside (internal processes), and write down what your life looks on the outside (external results) Note: You will probably notice how the internal thing are congruent with the external things - this is no consequence!
In this exercise, I want you to write it as if its already happened. So write in the present tense - "I woke up this morning and....."
How about this, if you feel like responding to this post, share with us what you wrote for this exercise, I'd really love to hear it.
Step two-Shift your Inner voice
What does that voice inside of your head sound like? For example:
When you are about to eat that item of food that you know your body doesn't need, what tone does the voice inside your head have? Is it a weak tone that says, "you really shouldn't be eating that". Or is it a confident, strong tone that communicates with authority: "You don't need to eat that, you will not eat that". See the difference? Which one are you more likely to listen to?
This is key.
Step 3 -Start feeling good about/embracing processes
This step is key to your success and encompasses the overall concept here! Lets be honest, most of us want instant gratification don't we? Well, I believe that we think we want things straight away but the truth is that we don't. Let me explain, if it was possible, who of you would take a chopper to the top of mount everest? I guess I would, it would be interesting to get there quickly and look at the view but is that what it's really about? No, no for me at least, what is that value in that? I want to say that I climbed mount everest! How much more beautiful would the view be if you had just completed such a great feat. Nothing worthwhile comes easy, that's the bottom line.
So let's start getting excited about the process and be motivated by each tiny step that we are taking. It's exciting and the further along you get, the more results you see and the more motivated you become - the snowball effect.
It's been great sharing with you and I hope that you got something from this post. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this post, I'm sure I could learn a thing or two from you guys.
Let me know if you liked this and want me to share the next 4 steps!
Last edited on 27 January 2011 07:33 am by stephanie88
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