How to Lose Weight Through Self Empowerment

Here are 6 steps which, if done daily, will most definitely get your mind into the best condition for weight loss. It’s not going to happen overnight, so be patient and do the work without doubt that it will produce results.

Steps

1. 1 Be very clear about what you want. Write it down in clear, unambiguous language as if you have it already and say it once or twice a day. Something like, “It’s October 2010 and I’m feeling lovely being a size x and I’m hardly ever thinking about food“. OR “It’s so wonderful choosing the clothes I like to wear, rather than the clothes that hide me for this November trip to….. , I also love the way it is so easy to say no”. That sort of thing. Tell yourself clearly what you want, voiced in the positive.
2. 2 Get yourself used to having it. Spend a bit of time each day seeing yourself at the size you want to be. Be doing different things, covering quite a few aspects of your life. Then inject the feeling of being slender into the picture. Again, make it clear and colourful and get a strong feeling going with it. If you don’t know what it feels like to be slender and never think about weight, make it up – the mind doesn’t know the difference. If that still doesn’t sit well with you, use an old NLP trick and model someone who is slim. Ask them what it feels like (they probably won’t know – and that’s a clue).
3. 3 Find out if you’re getting anything from it. We have 6 major needs; Certainty, Variety, Love or Connection, Significance, Growth and Giving. 2 to 3 of these operate in most areas of our lives. Sometimes, and its not always obvious, we do stuff because we get something out of it. Ladies, my guess is you’ve all probably met a guy who wants a mother (certainty, significance). And everyone knows someone who is a bit needy (love or connection, giving) and so on.
4. 4 Change your language and beliefs. This is the big one. Whatever you say to yourself is what you’re going to draw into your world. You MUST correct limiting beliefs, disempowering language, self-criticism and tell the story you want to hear. Simple. This is vital work and will lead you to where you want to be. Criticism and negative language causes emotional pain and when you are in pain you seek comforting or FOOD! Correct this language by saying the empowering alternative. For example, “Stop it! This is how I used to think. I now believe that losing weight is easy with the right thought patterns and every day I’m getting closer”.
5. 5 What is the meaning?. Or, think before you eat. Are you about to devour that very large cream cake because you are hungry, because it will make you feel good 0r because it is comfort eating to ease some emotional pain. Or worse still to get at someone (perhaps yourself?). What is the meaning behind the eating? Often, when you identify the meaning, you go off the eating.  
6. 6 Tell the story how you want it to be. This is the final step.This the sort of conversation or story that you would be better off telling if you want to lose weight using only your thoughts.

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