Right Mindset
The
best weight loss program in the world will not help you if you don't have the
right mindset.
So
what is the right mindset? The right
mindset is keeping your focus on what really matters when it comes to
sustainable weight loss, and not on the gimmicks and half-truths that are
abundant in the weight loss field.
To have the right
mindset you must realize the following 6 things:
Yes, You Can Lose Weight!
First,
you must realize that You can definitely lose weight! There is absolutely no reason why you can't
lose weight. Are there going to be
obstacles that get in your way of your efforts to lose weight? Absolutely, but
you can overcome any obstacles that get in your way if you simply believe that you
can. I am a firm believer that the person
with a problem is also the person with a solution. If you want something bad enough, solutions
will come.
Weight Gain Is a Symptom
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Secondly,
you must realize that Weight gain is not the problem, it is only a symptom. The
problem is your habits. So when you try
to lose weight, don't focus on the weight you want to lose but on the habits,
you need to change or develop in order to lose the weight you want.
Permanent Changes In Your Habits
The
third thing you must realize is that the only way you can lose weight and keep
it off for life is to make permanent changes in your lifestyle habits and there
is no way around it. Temporary changes
in your diet or activity habits will only yield temporary results. This is a
fact. Unfortunately, most diet and weight
loss programs, in their rush to help people get fast results, don't help people
make permanent changes in their eating and activity habits. That is why the
vast majority of people who lose weight gain the weight back. An easy way to evaluate if the results from a
diet or weight loss program will be sustainable is to ask yourself this simple
question: “Can I see myself doing
whatever the diet or weight loss program is asking me to do, for the rest of my
life to in order to lose the weight”? If
the answer is yes, then most likely you will be able to keep the weight off
after you lose it with that program. If the answer is no, then you definitely
will not be able to keep the weight off.
For example, most diets have you count calories in order to lose weight. Can you see yourself counting calories for
the rest of your life? I don't know
about you but I know I can't and I know most people can't either. That is why
most diets fail long term.
Change One Habit at a time
The
fourth thing you must realize is the only way to make permanent changes in your
lifestyle habits is to introduce new habits slowly and one at a time. Very few people can make big changes in their
lifestyle habits all at once and be able to sustain them for life. For the rest
of us, the only way to make permanent changes in our lifestyle habits is to
keep the changes small and introduce them slowly over time. Again, that is not exactly how most diet and
exercise programs do it. They have you
make all the necessary dietary and activity changes all at once.
That
is the perfect recipe for burning out.
None of the popular diet and exercise programs have given any thought to
the fact that people can't change overnight.
They wrongly believe that once people see results they would be motivated
to keep doing what they did to lose the weight.
That is why they push people hard to lose weight fast. If that theory was correct then how is it
that the vast majority of people who
lose weight gain it back? The fact is the best results in the world will not
keep you motivated if you achieved the results through a method that
overwhelmed you.
Fast Results Impossible to maintain
The
fifth thing you need to realize is that fast results are impossible to maintain
for the vast majority of people. Why? In
order to lose weight fast you must make big changes in your eating habits and
in your activity habits all at once and, as I just explained, that leads to
burnout. The fact is the more changes
you make in your life all at once, the further outside your comfort zone you
get. The further outside your comfort
zone you get, the more uncomfortable you get, the greater the chances of
burning out. I do realize that people
want fast results, but sometimes in life, what we want and what we need are two
different things. Believing that you can
lose weight fast and keep it off is the wrong mindset that will get you into
trouble. Unfortunately, the weight loss
industry has focused on delivering what people want because after all, that's
what sells. They don't realize or simply don't care that it's not what people
need. This is how we have ended up spending over $60 billion per year on weight
loss products and services and still gaining weight as a nation. The question I have for people who want to
lose weight fast is this,”What is the point of losing weight fast if you are
going to regain the weight back?”
Wouldn't you rather take an extra few months and lose weight the right
way so the weight loss would be sustainable?
I
got into the weight loss business not to help people lose weight temporarily.
There are plenty of weight loss experts that can help people do that. I got into the weight loss business to help
people lose weight and keep it off. That is why my focus is on telling people
what they need to hear and not what they want to hear.
Can't Rely on Motivation
The
final thing you need to realize is that you can't rely on motivation to remain
consistent with your workouts and your diet.
Of course, you need the motivation to get started but you can't rely on
motivation to keep going forever because motivation is something that comes and
goes. Sometimes you are motivated to do
the right thing and sometimes you are not.
If you only ate right or worked out when you were motivated, you would
be very inconsistent in your efforts and most likely you would not see any
results, or if you did, they would be temporary. So if you can't rely on motivation to get
your workouts done, or to eat right what can you rely on? The answer is simple, routine! We all have routines
that we go through every day, like when we first get up in the morning, you
might take a shower, brush your teeth, comb your hair and so on. Do you love combing your hair or brushing
your teeth? Do you debate whether or not
you are going to comb your hair or brush your teeth? No, you just do it. You don't love it, you
don't hate it. It's just something that you deemed important and you make it
part of your daily routine which you do without much thought. Do you go to bed the night before thinking,
“oh I hate having to comb my hair or brush my teeth every morning?” Of course not. As a matter of fact, you
probably don't spend any time thinking about it.
Well,
that is how exercising and eating right has to become if you want to have a
lean and healthy body that will last you a lifetime it has to become routine.
Having
the right mindset for sustainable weight loss is the first thing you should
make sure you have before starting any weight loss program. The first thing I teach my clients, at my
facility, Live Your Way Thin and
with my online sustainable weight loss program, Live Thin Stay Thin, is how to develop the right mindset for
sustainable weight loss. Without the
right mindset, sustainable weight loss is almost impossible to achieve.
