Weight Loss without Worry

If 95% of dieters return to their old habits and regain the weight they lost, maybe it is time for some new thoughts on weight loss.

Too often you find yourself “going through the motions” of weight loss: you eat less, choose better foods and exercise more. You do all the things you are “supposed” to do yet the results are minimal and require a lot of willpower. The reason this happens is because, like most dieters, you are missing a key weight loss step; sure you eat differently and move differently but do you think differently?

Your thoughts and beliefs directly influence your habits and behaviors. If you go on a 6 week diet with the goal of losing 12 pounds and you eat less and increase your amount of exercise for those 6 weeks yet every day you tell yourself how much you hate eating healthy foods and exercising, how long do you expect those 12 pounds to stay off? The truth is as soon as those 6 weeks are over you will jump back into your old habits and all the weight will return.

The 5% of dieters who keep the weight off after they lose it understand that they must change their mindset about eating and exercising if they want their progress to last.

Achievers of long-term weight loss have learned how to tell themselves a new story. Their new story is all about how they can lose weight and keep it off. They have a vivid vision of how great life will be 1, 5 even 10 years from now because of their new healthy lifestyle.

Achievers have no magic beans; they simply have developed a new empowering weight mindset and a clear picture of what they want. This skill is available to everyone. Simply sit down and create a vision of what life will be like, look like, feel like, sound like and even smell like when you are at your ideal weight. Then play this image through your head every day; allow this to be what you daydream about and never let yourself doubt that it can be your reality. This simple yet powerful exercise breaks up the patterns of thought and behavior that keep returning you to your old habits. You will create new habits and behaviors and after a few months you will start to see how this daydream can become a truth in your life and your actions will begin to support your vision.

You can lose weight and keep it off for a life-time by following the blueprint other weight loss achievers have followed: eat right, exercise and create a positive weight mindset.