If you want to get off the vicious cycle of losing weight
only to regain it back and finally achieve sustainable weight loss you need to
realize the following 7 things:
1) If you want to lose weight and keep it off you must
change the habitual behaviors that lead to you being overweight in the first
place.
2) Before you can
change any behavior you must first believe that is possible.
3) The only way to
change habitual behaviors is through small steps and one behavior at a
time.
4) Fast results are
impossible to maintain because the only way to achieve fast results is through
big changes and with big changes you can't develop new habitual behaviors. Without the development of new habitual
behaviors sustainable weight loss is impossible
5) You need to realize that you are in charge of
yourself. If you are not happy with your
current shape you have the ability to change whatever needs to be changed in
order to get in shape. Think about
it? If you are not in charge of yourself
who is? Yes, I understand a lot of your
behavior are habitual so you are not completely aware of them, but if a
habitual behavior is bad for your health you still have the ability to change
that habitual behavior. It is up to you, no one else.
6) Now, is the only
time you control, not yesterday and not tomorrow. So if you want to make a change in your life,
focus on what you can change right now.
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do right now. The problem with tomorrow is that it never
comes. There is no point of dwelling on what
you did yesterday either. There is
nothing you can do about what you did yesterday or even a minute ago. Whatever happened, happened, learn from it
and move one. Dwelling on it will not
change a thing.
7) You must be patient, it takes time to develop new
behaviors and make them habitual. Habits
are like seeds they won't grow into a plant overnight and they need to be
watered and nurtured in order to grow into a plant. But once you have developed all the right
habitual behaviors, keeping the weight off will be almost effortless. Again, my question to people who want fast
results is, what is the point of losing weight fast if you are going to gain
the weight back? Wouldn't you rather
take your time and do it the right way so you never have to worry about your
weight again?
The ironic thing is that losing weight by making permanent
changes in your habitual behaviors only seems slow, but in reality is the
fastest way, by far, to losing weight because you only need to do it once.
Whereas the fast way, you need to keep losing the same weight over and over
again every year with no end in sight. I know people who have been losing
weight the fast way for years and they are still overweight. So my question is, which way is really
faster?
In all my years in the weight loss field, I have never seen
a method that works better in helping people lose weight and keep it off than
small, steady changes over time. This is
not just the best way to achieve sustainable weight loss, this is the only way
to achieve sustainable weight loss.
Let me give you an analogy.
If you were the pilot of a Boeing 747 and you were flying from NY to
Fiji and as soon as you took off you realized that the autopilot is set to fly
to Antarctica, what would you do? Would you just grab the wheel and just turn
it in the direction you want the plane to go and fight the autopilot the whole
way to Fiji, or would you take the time to reprogram the autopilot to fly you
to Fiji? Of course, you would do the
latter, it makes sense.
Well, we also come with an autopilot, our subconscious
mind. Our habitual behaviors are the
programs that determine where the autopilot will take us. If you don't want to go where your autopilot
is taking you wouldn’t it make sense to change the program (habitual behaviors)
of your autopilot? I think the answer
is obvious. Change the programming in your autopilot and your task of getting
in shape all of a sudden becomes much easier.
This is the way I have been approaching weight loss for
years at my facility, Live Your Way Thin, located in Danbury, Connecticut, with great
success.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Starting sometime mid-January,
2017 I will start offering online personal training & coaching, so no
matter where you live in the world you can join my sustainable weight loss
program. I will be making an official announcement
about my online personal training & coaching very soon! If you are interested in my online personal
training & coaching program, when the program becomes available you will be
able to access it and learn more about it, by going to this link: http://www.liveyourwaythin.com/online-personal-training---coaching.html
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