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Transform Your Thinking To Transform Your Body What do you believe about how to lose weight and keep it off? Here are ten beliefs that will challenge your thinking. If you find yourself resisting any of these beliefs, consider the possibility that the belief you are resisting is exactly the one you should adopt. Of course, like all beliefs, they aren't the truth, but they will empower you in your choice to live a healthy lifestyle. 1. Losing weight and keeping it off is a matter of integrity, not morality. You are not a bad person if you go off your diet and you're not a good person if you stay on it. You are, simply, a person who honors his/her promises or you are not. Confusing integrity and morality will cause you to blame yourself rather than being responsible for your choices. 2. Blame makes you a victim. Responsibility gives you freedom. Blame puts control outside yourself. Even if you blame yourself, you're suggesting that you are unable to control yourself. On the other hand, if you are responsible, then you are fully empowered to choose to lose weight and keep it off. 3. Blame is self indulgent. Blaming yourself is what you use as an excuse for not keeping your promise to yourself to stay on your diet. You may say, "If only I were a stronger person." Or, "If only I had more self control." These are excuses you use to gain sympathy if you go off your diet. In reality, you are plenty strong enough and you have all the self control you need. 4. Your feelings make no difference. If you go to the gym and exercise your muscles when you feel like it, you will build muscle. If you go to the gym and exercise your muscles when you don't feel like it, you will build muscle. Don't use "I don't feel like it" as an excuse to go off your diet. 5. Losing weight will make you thinner and healthier. Not happier or wealthier. Once you lose weight, you may find true love, eternal happiness and lots of money. None of this, however, will have anything to do with the weight loss. However, when you lose weight and keep it off, you may come to believe that you now deserve love, happiness and wealth. That new attitude may attract love, happiness and wealth into your life. 6. Gaining weight will not make you unhappy unless you choose to be. The circumstances of your life don't make you unhappy. You are unhappy because you choose to be. 7. Those who lose weight and keep it off have a long term perspective. If you say you're going to lose weight for your daughter's wedding, high school reunion or to bring your blood pressure down, that's what you'll do. Then you'll put the weight back on after the wedding, the reunion and when your blood pressure goes down. 8. There is no such thing as "procrastination." There is only that which you are doing now, that which you are planning to do later and that which you have no intention of doing at all. If you say, "I'll start my diet tomorrow," you're not procrastinating. You are simply choosing to not diet today. Labeling yourself a "procrastinator" is just another excuse to not do what you said you would. 9. If you're not losing as much weight as you had hoped, you're not doing enough to lose the weight. The story "Americans Are Fat and Expected To Get Fatter" appeared on the November 17th, 2011 National Public Radio blog. According to the story, doctors often avoid talking with patients about their weight because patients will quit going to the doctor if they feel they're going to be told they're not doing enough to lose weight. Think about that for a moment. People go to a doctor to get healthier. The doctor honestly tells them that they need to exercise more and eat less. The patient's response: Find a doctor more likely to lie to them. If you think you're doing "enough," keep a log of the food you eat and the exercise you do for two weeks. After two weeks, ask yourself, "Am I really doing enough?" 10. If you say you want to lose weight and keep it off and you don't, you're not committed to losing weight no matter what you say. Examine your motivations. You may actually not want to lose weight. Do not judge yourself for this (remember: It's not a moral issue). You will have greater integrity and feel better about yourself if you admit that you're not interested in dieting than if you pretend to be. Author: Larry Barkan How many diets have you been on in your life? How many have worked? The answer is: all of them. They have all worked and the proof is that you've lost weight on every diet you've been on. But you haven't kept the weight off. Why? View Count: 83
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