Losing Weight Starts In The Mind Or It Has No Chance Of Success

     You understand how to drop weight, don't you? Just eat less and exercise more. For the most part that is accurate. Why then are people not losing weight no matter what methods they try? The answer is they fail mentally first which will cause them to fall short physically. The goal of droping pounds is exceptionally difficult and may take a long time to accomplish. It is a lengthy journey that is not alway a positive and enjoyable one. This process can take a toll mentally if you are not prepared for it. Once the mental breakdown begins most people quit.

Notice that most people quit because of the mental breakdown, not because they feel the diet or weight loss program wasn抰 working. This is a very important observation to make and the key reason people fall short to lose weight. Your mind then becomes your toughest obstacle to get over before you can drop weight. Losing weight and living a healthy lifestyle is a lifetime journey that you have to be realistically prepared for.

It is the small failures and steps backward that you must be prepared for first. If you are prepared for them to happen they will be less of a problem when they occur. No one can just keep losing weight without little ups and downs on the scale. It is the classic two steps forward and one step back. Always look at the entire process. Not day by day.

There will be daily attacks, whether from yourself or society, that you will face. There is no escaping this. You may be doing great and losing weight, but there will always be someone skinnier, prettier, or more toned, that can make you think you are not succeeding. You must be able to compare your progress to yourself and resist the urge to compare yourself to others.

Constantly remind yourself why you are trying to lose weight. You should be losing it for you and no one else. Stick to your plan and you will impress yourself, don't let what other people think slow down your progress. You must mentally become invulnerable to social stresses. You cannot control stresses applied to you by others, but you can control how you react to them.

Weight loss is multi-dimensional. The easiest part is eating right and exercising. Your goal of losing weight can only start to fall apart when the most important dimension falls apart: your mind. Remind yourself that it was because of your mindset that you gained weight in the first place, and it is your mindset that will help you lose it.

What do you see when you look in the mirror? You have to start training yourself to have a positive self-image. Without this you won抰 be able to look at progress in a realistic way. You will focus on the negatives.

Once you have the right mindset you will be able to begin your weight loss program. Without this proper attitude your plan is doomed from the start. With it the pounds will start flying off.

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