Let’s say you were the only pilot of a modern passenger plane with all the latest technologies, and your destination was Fiji. You were looking forward to an easy flight and a nice time on the beach once you got there. As soon as the plane took off, you realized that the autopilot was programmed by the previous pilot to fly you to Antarctica and not to Fiji. What would make more sense, take the time and reprogram the autopilot so it can take you to Fiji, or just grab the yoke and steer the plane to the direction you want the plane to go and fight the autopilot and fatigue the whole way there?
Obviously, the best thing to do is to reprogram the autopilot to take you to Fiji so you would be free to enjoy the trip more and only have to check the autopilot from time to time to make sure is working correctly and has not deviated from its course. Then, when you arrive in Fiji, you can relax on the beach.
Well, we all have an autopilot, which is our subconscious mind. According to cognitive neuroscience, 95% of your daily actions and thoughts are controlled by your subconscious mind. In other words, 95% of your daily actions and thought are habitual behaviors. Only around 5% of your daily actions and thoughts are controlled by your conscious mind. This makes perfect sense because our subconscious mind has, almost, unlimited processing power, whereas our conscious mind is very limited.
Getting our subconscious mind to run most of our daily tasks frees our conscious mind to focus on the important stuff, like enjoying life. Think of your subconscious mind as the autopilot and your conscious mind as the manual control. The problem with the conscious mind (manual control) is that it requires a lot of mental energy and it can only do one thing at a time. So if you are focusing on your diet or to make sure you get your workouts in, you are not focusing on enjoying life.
If you look at the typical weight loss and diet programs they don't help you train your subconscious mind (autopilot) to develop new habitual behaviors. Instead, they rely on your conscious mind to take all the necessary actions (manual control). As I explained earlier, this takes a lot of mental effort, which, in most cases, leads to burnout. This is why 95% of the people who lose weight regain the weight back with the current methods of weight loss
If you look at the healthy regions around the world, all the things that they do that keeps them in shape, are habitual behaviors. Basically, their fitness program is on autopilot. My kind of fitness program!
Best way to achieve sustainable weight loss is to make habitual all the healthy actions you need to take in order to lose the weight you want.
This is the way we approach weight loss with our Live Your Way Thin System with great sustainable results and this is the way we strongly recommend everyone to approach weight loss.
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