Weight Loss without Worry

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A few days ago I wrote about how you need to use visualization to help yourself reach your ideal weight.

By visualizing yourself as a thinner person and creating a crystal clear picture of what being thin will look like, feel like, taste like, smell like and be like, you create a target that your mind becomes comfortable with.

When you do visualization the right way it is almost like you are creating a new comfort zone that when reached will just feel right.

Keep reading, at the end I share how you can get a free visualizing tool so you can get this visual picture of your thin self embedded in your brain :-)

I also promised in that post that I would offer some proof that visualizing works by sharing how I personally used visualizing to not only complete a marathon but to complete it in the exact time I had told myself I would complete it.

Here is my story…I call it visualizing 4:44:

In January of 2007 I decided to run a marathon.  I chose a race called the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati, Ohio (the name implies the thought that “I will run a marathon when pigs fly”).

When I started training I not only got my body ready to run but also my mind.  I did this by visualizing myself running across the finish line.

Every Saturday I would head out for my “long run” and as the run finished regardless of how I felt I would run the last 100 feet like they were the final steps of my 26.2 mile journey.

I would get such a visual picture in my mind of that awesome moment that my arms would often fly up in the air and tears would come to my eyes.  I crossed that finish line 17 times in my mind before the race even began!

I not only used visualization during my training, I also used “belief builders”, simple statements to myself about what I planned to accomplish.

Weeks before the race I started repeating this statement to myself, “I am absolutely certain in my ability to run the Flying Pig Marathon in 4:44.”  Meaning I would cross the finish line in 4 hours and 44 minutes (don’t ask me why I picked that number, it just felt right).

I repeated this phrase to myself three times a day, every day.  I looked myself in the mirror when I said it and never let myself doubt it (even on the days it didn’t seem plausible because I was feeling tired and worn out).

Race day finally came on Sunday, May 6th.  I woke up that morning, looked myself in the mirror and said with confidence my belief builder phrase then got ready to run.

The race was grueling, I endured warmer than expected temperatures, cramping in my legs and a level of fatigue I had never experienced before, but when the finish line came into view I was overcome by emotion, my arms flew up in the air and my eyes filled with tears. I realized that I was crossing the line in the exact time I had visualized, 4 hours and 44 minutes.

The lesson is the same whether you are running a race or losing weight.

You must be able to not only see yourself at your goal weight, but also feel how good it feels.

If your goal is to weigh 140 pounds on October 25th (and that is realistic for you), then sit down in a quiet room everyday for 5 minutes and fast forward to that day when you weigh 140.

What are you doing?

Who is with you?

What do you feel like inside?

What do you look like?

What things do you smell or hear?

Put yourself in a state of already being there on a daily basis and take the necessary actions and not only will you get there, you will stay there.

Want a little help visualizing yourself thin?

Look, I don’t expect this to be easy for you from the start.

You will sit down completely ready to visualize the new thin you…and then realize 30 seconds later that you are thinking about what you have to buy at Target this afternoon.

Learning how to successfully visualize on your own is tough, and I think this is why many people dismiss it and say, “this doesn’t work.”

But it does work.

And if you have spent years trying to “figure out” how to get your body to lose weight and keep it off without success, then isn’t it time to at least be open to a new approach?

Monday, July 26th is the launch for Mind Movies.

Mind Movies is a simple little video program that I have personally been using for the past 2 years to help me get my mind in the right place to achieve some pretty great things.

As part of the launch they will be giving away for FREE a few of these short Mind Movies and I had a sneak peak at them and I have to say that I am surprised by how much they are giving away for free.

By watching the short Mind Movie on Health (about 3 minutes long) a couple times a day you literally train your brain to think of your body as perfectly healthy and thin…in other words you create a new mental comfort zone as a thin person!

I will send a quick email on Monday to let you know how you can pick up this free Mind Movie. This is a great tool that has likely been missing for you!

Do you think there is a “mental” side to weight loss? I would love to hear your comments below!