Lose Weight by Changing Yourself From Within

People who are not overweight cannot understand
why some people are fat. After all if you want to lose
weight all you have to do is go on a special diet and
exercise more.

Unfortunately this is the way most diet plans
approach peoples weight loss issues. Most weight
loss plans focus on your actions. They tell you that
you have to eat this but not that, you must drink only
this and you have to eat by combining your foods in a
certain order. You are instructed to exercise until you
drop.

While many of these processes can work in the
short term - they are not sustainable in the long term.
These weight loss plans are generally too restrictive
and they require a tremendous amount of will power.
Let's face it, if losing weight were as easy as eating
less and exercising more then 100 million Americans
would not be over weight.

These weight loss plans always fail to address the
root of your weight issues. The root of most weight
issues is the ways you think and feel create
emotional issues that keep the weight on you. Your
thoughts create your feelings; your feelings
determine your actions. Your body changes at a
cellular level based on how your feeling.

Think about it for a moment. When are you most
likely to over eat? During emotionally challenging
times such as being under stress, being angry, sad,
fearful and even board. Over time the more you over
eat due to emotional causes the more your body
expects the extra food so you reach a point where
you eat just to eat.


Our thoughts create our emotions¡­
Our emotions determine our actions.
All of our actions originate first from a thought. Some
of these thoughts generate strong emotional
responses such as if we're worried or frightened
about something. Anyone who is overweight has
emotional triggers to food.

We think of something and have an emotional
response to that thought which in turn triggers an
eating response. Many times we're not even aware
we doing this, it's sort of being on automatic pilot.
Think about your own triggers. Do you ever reach for
food or a snack when your under stress or worried?
How about if you're lonely or sad?

Our thoughts create our emotions¡­
Our emotions create our body.


What's happening inside of us creates what's
happening outside of us. There is no difference to the
way our body feels to us then it actually is.
Each of us creates our own reality including our body.
We believe that what is happening outside of us is
what is creating the feeling within us when actually
the opposite is true.

The way we feel, the thoughts we have, what we
focus on makes internal changes to us on a cellular
level that creates our external world.

That's why no matter what diet we try we ultimately
fail. That's why we keep doing the same things over
and over even though we know that it's detrimental to
our weight loss goals.

Diets try to change you from the outside when the
only way you can be changed is from the inside. No
matter what you do to lose weight you will fail unless
you change yourself from the inside, nothing external
can work.

The importance of focusing on what your desired
out come is and believing that it has already occurred
can not be over stated. Scientific studies have shown
that if you monitor a persons brain activity a real
event is recorded the same as an imagined event
within the brain.

If a person was to look at a flag, and then close their
eyes and imagine a flag their brain waves would be
identical. The same neuro networks are activated, the
same neurons are fired.

The brain cannot distinguish between real or
imagined events. Your brain cannot distinguish
between what's happening outside to your own
internal thoughts. Your brain cannot distinguish
between what you see and what you imagine or
pretend to see. Now take this a step further.
When you close your eyes and picture yourself what
do you see? If you modify that picture, your reality will
bend to that image.

So why is that important? Your thoughts, beliefs
and intents create your reality, your outcome. What
you think about you body creates your body.
Your thoughts alone can alter your body. Your
thoughts create emotions and if the emotions are
strong you create memories.

Your hypothalamus is a gland that is rich in fibers
and synaptic connections and it controls the functions
of the body such as blood pressure, heartbeat,
metabolism of fats and carbohydrates. The way that
it accomplishes this is that your hypothalamus is a
chemical factory that creates peptides which are
small chained amino acids. These peptides are
created based on our emotions.

Different neuro hormones are created based on the
emotion we are feeling: Joy, love, happiness, fear,
hate and all other emotions that we actually
experience or imaging create peptides. At the
moment that we experience an emotion, real or
imagined hormones are released into the body.

Every cell in your body has receptors for the various
hormones that are released. The hormones that are
released into the body are attached to the cell
through the receptor. This is very similar to a key
going into a lock. Once attached the cell will change
based on the hormone that has attached to it which
ultimately is determined by your emotions.

Each cell is alive with its own consciousness and
over time your cell will create more receptors for the
predominate hormone being released.
The more receptors for a given emotion that is
created will cause the body to create situations the
will satisfy the chemical cravings of our cells. The
more you experience joy the more joy receptors will
be activated within your cells.

The more joy receptors the more your body will
create situations that will cause you to feel joyful. This
holds true for your weight as well.

The more you feel fat and over weight the more that
those receptors become activated thereby causing
your body to react in a way that will keep you
overweight. Every function of the body is influenced
by your emotional state.

In order to break this you must first change way you
think about your body. Then as you become aware of
the negative thought patterns that have been
contributing to your negative body image you need to
choose different thoughts. Most overweight people
have thoughts like:
- I will never be able to lose weight
- If I look at food I gain 5 pounds
- I'm not desirable
- I'm not good enough
- I hate my body

It is impossible to lose weight and keep the weight
off if you have a negative body image.

Changing your thought patterns is simple to do.
Simply focus on things that you do like about your
body. You could say to yourself:
- I have nice eyes
- I feel strong
- I feel thinner today
- I love how my body is going to look
- My children love me

The whole point is to raise your emotional level;
you want to feel good about you and your body.

Another useful tool is the ¡°Wouldn't it be nice
game¡± When you're not in a good place emotionally
simply say to yourself ¡°Wouldn't it be nice if____ :
- I lost 20 pounds
- I could fit into that dress
- I could get into a size 6

By playing the ¡°Wouldn't it be nice game¡± you
immediately change your emotional state and feel
more positive.

By changing your negative thoughts concerning
your body you will change your emotions. You will
have a more positive approach to your body and to
life. By using this approach you will not have the
struggle that you have come to expect when
attempting to lose weight.

So start raising your emotional state today!





 
 

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