Let me guess, you’ve bought the latest weight loss program excited
because “this” time you’re actually going follow through with it. You
spend hours studying it, you plan when you’re going to start, hey
you’ve even gone out and bought a new pair of running shoes. You
follow the system for a couple of weeks and even notice you’ve
dropped a few pounds. Then something happens. Over the next
couple of weeks you find yourself becoming slightly bored of the
system and a few weeks after that you’ve given up entirely.
Now I’m not against weight loss systems, there really are some
extremely high quality ones out there. Systems that have been
carefully crafted by teams of highly experienced fitness and weight
loss experts. If you follow the plans you will lose weight and you will
have an extremely toned and fit body. The problem is that you don’t.
You don’t follow through with the systems because mentally you’re
not ready. Your “inner game” is all over the place. You don’t truly see
yourself as someone who has a fit, slim and toned body. Because of
that you fail...
Realise this, human beings operate very much like elastic bands. You
can stretch yourself to a certain level but at some point you will
always snap back to your original position. If deep down you don't
believe you can be slim, no matter how hard you try, you will always
“snap” back to being an overweight person.
Why do you think so many people are yo-yo dieters?
I’m sure you’ve noticed this. People who lose weight and then put it
back on again and then lose it again and then put it back on again. In
fact I personally know some people who have spent their entire adult
life bouncing from one different weight to the another. And do you
know what? They always end up at their original weight.
Why is that? It’s because at a profound level yo-yo dieters, whether
they are aware of it or not, believe that they are that certain
weight/look. No matter what they do they will always snap back to
original position. Period.
It’s important to point out that this applies to absolutely every human
being on the planet. Think about it for a second. Why do some people
get rich and others stay broke for the rest of their lives? Why are
some people career criminals who spend their entire lives in and out
of jail? Answer it is all down to the beliefs they have about themselves
and their own self image.
Don’t believe me. Then consider this quote for a second.
"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't,
you most assuredly won't”. Denis Waitley
The fact is that belief or non belief in a certain thing is THE
determining as to whether you are able to accomplish that thing or
not. This is regardless of the size of the challenge or your personal
circumstances.
Now let me ask you a question:
Do you honestly believe that losing weight is fun and easy?
Do you honestly see yourself as someone who is fit and slim?
If you can’t answer yes to these questions immediately then I’m afraid
you will never ever lose weight permanently. Sure you might be able
to push yourself to start a weight loss program but sooner or later you
will snap-back to your original weight. This is law.
It is, therefore absolutely critical to examine the current beliefs you
have about yourself and if you have self limiting beliefs, you must
change them. If you do not do this you are going to find it extremely
hard if not impossible to lose weight permanently. You must find those self limiting beliefs and erase them.
Let me tell you breaking down limiting beliefs is difficult. After all think
how long it took for those beliefs to form. However it can be done. In
fact it has to be done if you are serious about shedding those
pounds.
Now you are not going to hear this from many people who are selling
weigh loss products. But honestly if you want to get a body that is
slim, lean and toned, I’m taking about the kind of body that literally
stops people dead in their tracks; you must start by believing you can
have it.
When you program your mind the think slim, you'll start to notice that the weight drops off all by itself.
By the way if you are interested in changing the mental picture you
have of yourself and really creating a set of beliefs that guarantees