If you have tried every so-called healthy diet
plan on the planet and every exercise program
from the latest fitness guru and repeatedly
failed to achieve your weight loss goals, you
probably need a "healthy diet check up...from
the neck up."
There's no such thing as a healthy, fast,
weight loss diet plan. Successful weight loss
doesn¡¯t just happen. It took more than a few
days to reach the point where you are at right
now. Give yourself a break and expect it to
take awhile before you see measurable results.
Take a leap of faith and follow some basic
principles in your diet plan.
Begin with your "self talk." This is the
conversation that runs through your brain
continuously. What kind of conversation do you
have with your self talk? What type of negative
self talk has kept you from reaching your
weight loss goals in the past?
If you had a chance to do it over again, would
you change the dialogue? That's a no-brainer
isn't it? Well, the good news is that you can
turn the tide of negative self talk beginning
right now. It's never too late to begin and you
start by reprogramming your self talk and
beginning a whole new weight loss diet plan.
A good starting point is to begin with positive
affirmations. Positive affirmations, spoken
aloud with authority and belief, positively
affect your attitude, focuses your thinking and
lead to a course of action that will help you
become the person you want to be and have the
things that you want to have.
Begin by writing your weight loss affirmations
on paper. You can begin with something like, "I
want to lose 25 pounds before Christmas."
That's a worthy goal and attainable, but we
need to put some work into structuring the
affirmation.
First of all, "I want" gives the impression
that what you desire is always in the future.
In order to re-program your self talk, you need
to trick your mind into believing that you have
already achieved weight loss success. This is
how your subconscious mind functions.
Your subconscious mind has no capacity for
understanding the concept of time. Everything
is in the moment. . .here and now. When you
tell your subconscious mind that you "want",
that is exactly what you will get. . .want. .
.without ever achieving fulfillment. Unless you
change your mental tape recorder, you will
achieve exactly what you are telling your
subconscious, that you "want to lose 25
pounds." You will "want to lose 25 pounds" for
the rest of your days unless you change your
self talk.
If your weight is 150 pounds and you desire is
to weight 125 pounds, then you need to "be" 125
pounds from the moment you make the decision to
change your self talk. What if you write your
affirmation to read something like this: "I am
healthy and fit, weighing 125 pounds."
It is extremely important that your affirmation
is crystal clear because what you affirm is
exactly what your subconscious mind will bring
you.
You needn't limit yourself to one affirmation
either. Write another one that reflects your
new exercise program. "I enjoy my healthy new
diet plan," or, "I love the healthy foods I
eat."
Write and rewrite until you are absolutely
certain that you have written your weight loss
goals "in the here and now" AND represent
precisely what you desire. Only then do you
begin to speak it aloud and do so several times
a day.
Remember to use the present tense. "I
acknowledge achievement in all my weight loss
goals." "I have the skill and talent to
exercise every day." "I am a winner." "I am
grateful for all of my accomplishments no
matter how small."
At first you will feel awkward and
uncomfortable and you may not feel or believe
what you are saying. It doesn't matter,
continue to speak them aloud with as much
conviction as you can muster. It's taken a long
time to train your subconscious to use negative
self talk. If you will persevere with speaking
your affirmations aloud, firmly and
confidently, you will be amazed at how quickly
you can turn your thoughts around.
You didn't hop on a bicycle the first time and
just take off down the street. It took practice
to train your body to balance on those two
wheels. This will take some practice as well.
Continue to repeat your affirmations aloud,
several times a day for the next 30 days and
you will be amazed at how much you change your
thinking and attitude.
Above all, take action. Do nothing and nothing
gets done. Do something and many things are
placed in motion.
Regardless of what you are doing in life, you
need to take action. Do something every day to
put your plan into motion.
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