How To Create A Powerful Weight- Loss Mind Set

It seems ironic that losing weight is such a simple process but as a
society we continue to get fatter and fatter. Let’s face it, we all know
the basics of what we need to do, we just don’t do it! If you eat less and
exercise more you’re going to lose weight! The problem is how many
people actually do these things? What’s stopping people from doing
the easiest things that they know will get them results? Why don’t they
simply make a conscious effort to reduce the portion sizes of their meals
or get up a little earlier to go for a walk around the block? Jim Rohn (a
US personal development speaker) answered these questions well when
he said, ‘The things that are easy to do are also easy not to do!’
The reason why people don’t do these simple actions to get the results
they want is because they haven’t created a ‘Weight-Loss Mindset’. A
‘Weight-Loss Mindset’ is simply having the motivation or drive to do
what is necessary on a daily basis in order to get the results you want. The
motivation comes from within; intrinsic motivation. Motivation is the
fundamental difference between someone having a flimsy hope to lose
weight and someone having a burning desire to do whatever it takes to
get the excess flesh off their body! It is the difference between someone
getting up in the morning to go for a walk when the alarm goes off and
someone hitting the snooze button, rolling over and going back to sleep!
Many people who have achieved their weight-loss goal often comment
that they experienced a ‘defining moment’ in their life that ‘flicked the
switch’ in their mind; a moment that marked a shift in their mind about
weight loss. It may have been a marriage breakdown, the loss of a parent,
a negative doctor’s check-up or even an innocent comment from one of
their children like, ‘Mummy, you’re fat!’ Any of these situations may
cause an immediate shift in a person’s drive to lose weight.
Unfortunately though, these are the exceptions rather than the rule.
Human beings, the resilient creatures that we are, will put up with a lot
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before we’ll make any changes. Often we wake up in the morning after
sleeping well only to feel more tired than before we went to bed but we’ll
put up with it. We look in the mirror and feel disappointed with what we
see but we’ll put up with it. Our joints and lower back ache all the time
but we’ll put up with that too. Yes, we’re willing to put up a lot before
we’ll take any action.
Whats more, even if we do muster up enough motivation to do something
about it, as soon as the going gets a bit tough or ‘life’ gets in the way, we
‘drop the ball’ and go back to old habits. Bad habits are like a comfortable
bed, they’re easy to get into and they’re hard to get out of!
So how do we create a ‘Weight-Loss Mindset’? Is it something you’re
either born or not born with or can it be created? The fact is, just like
athletic ability we all have some but to varying degrees. Some athletes
are born champions and, despite their lifestyle habits sometimes, they
achieve massive success with little effort. These people are very rare
indeed. On the other hand, there are those people who can improve their
ability through hard work, dedication and perseverance, but even on their
best day they may have trouble holding their place in the high school’s
3rd XVIII football team! These people are also extremely rare.
Most people however, will fall somewhere between these two extremes
both in athletic ability and in their ability to create a ‘Weight-Loss
Mindset’. The big difference though, between improvement in athletic
ability and improving your ‘Weight-Loss Mindset’ is that with an athletic
endeavour you are limited by the physical capacities of your body,
whereas when you are dealing with your mind, which is intangible, your
ability to improve is infinite.
Now I know many people may not have the opportunity to have a defining
moment, the moment when a switch is flicked in their mind and they
immediately start taking action towards their weight-loss goal, but there
is another way to create a powerful weight-loss mind set and I will cover
the exact steps later


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