Lose The Weight You Want Forever

Why is it so tough to lose weight? For those of us who have gained weight, the solution is simple: we need to eat less and exercise more. So, why do we keep ending ourselves in the same spot year after year, dragging around more weight than we want to?

The trouble is that our best-laid goals are frequently thwarted by a slew of unconscious difficulties. This article will assist you in identifying some of the factors that may be limiting you from achieving the development you desire.

Steps to Get Started

Your need strength profile is one of the first things to consider. This is a self-evaluation that indicates which of a person's five fundamental wants is responsible for the bulk of their conduct. We all have the same five fundamental needs, yet freedom may be the most important to me, while love and belonging may be more important to you, and survival may be more important to someone else. The other two requirements are for power and enjoyment. All of these factors play a significant influence on why we do things the way we do them.

Next, think about everything you want in your life, not just your weight reduction objectives, but everything you want to accomplish, have, and experience. Consider the following question: "What am I looking for? What would I want if I could have anything? What is it that I actually desire?"

After that, you'll want to narrow down your goals to a clear picture of how your life will alter once you've lost the weight you want to shed. What would you gain that you don't now have? What are you going to do differently this time? What will you do to set yourself apart? You must be able to clearly envision the completed version of what you're striving to do, together with all of its benefits. This will become your own mental movie or daydream of how you want your life to be once you've met your weight-loss objectives. At least once a day, you will begin to imagine your accomplishment.

The next stage is to keep track of everything you do that either helps or hinders your weight-loss goals. For instance, if you were able to avoid eating doughnuts for breakfast, note that. If you ordered dessert at a restaurant, make a note of it as well. You must also write down the ideas and feelings that either aid or impede your growth, in addition to the actual activities.

So, if you tell yourself, "It's fine if I have this piece of chocolate." Write down "I was incredibly excellent yesterday." Then, if the idea occurs to you, "Nothing tastes as nice as thin feels," jot it down as well. If you're bored and go for a bag of potato chips, write down your feelings of boredom. Make a note of how happy you feel when you forgo a favorite dessert. Keep account of everything you do, think, and feel that contributes to or hinders your weight reduction efforts.

The next stage is to critically assess what you're doing, thinking, and feeling, and ask yourself the challenging question, "Will I get what I REALLY want if I keep doing things the way I've been doing them?" Will I be able to realize the image of my new life that I envisioned in my mind's eye?"

If you answered yes, congratulations! You probably don't need to read any further in this article. You'll get there if you just keep doing what you're doing. If the answer is no, continue reading.

If you answered no, you have most likely succeeded in inducing some cognitive dissonance in yourself. This is an unpleasant sensation that alerts you to the fact that you need to make some changes. It's easy to persist with harmful behaviors we've formed over time if we don't experience this cognitive dissonance. Unless they are in excruciating agony, people seldom make adjustments in their life.

If you're not making progress toward your goal, the first thing you should consider is if you have a strong desire to achieve it. Whatever your weight-loss and fitness objectives are, you must have a strong desire to achieve them.

Another explanation is that you haven't had a proper strategy in place to lose weight up to this point. There will be plenty of opportunities to undermine your success if you don't have a sound plan in place. When it comes to combating our brain's programming, willpower alone can only get us so far.

Another option is that you desire something else in addition to your weight-loss regimen. There are several things to explore, but the list of your prior acts, thoughts, and emotions will provide some indications, either buried or evident. Instead of doing, thinking, and feeling the things that will assure your weight-reduction plan's success, what do you do, think, and feel? "What would you have to give up to achieve your weight reduction goals?" is an important question to ask yourself.

You'll have to make some decisions after you've become aware of the other things you desire in addition to reducing weight. Is there something more important to you than losing weight? If it is, you might choose to abandon the goal of reducing weight and focus instead on doing, having, or gaining the other item you desire. After that, you'll have a new objective to work for.

Another way is to make the intentional decision that you want to reduce weight above everything else. If this happens, you'll need to tailor your brain reconditioning program to particularly target your own regions of temptation, which I'll describe later.

Finally, the fourth alternative entails working out a compromise that allows you to have some of each of the things you desire. For instance, I just read in a magazine about a movie diva who regulates her carbohydrate consumption six days a week but indulges in unlimited pizza on Sundays. This is a reasonable compromise.

The third question to ask yourself is, "Am I willing to put in the effort required to see my plan through?"

Creating Your Strategy

When establishing a strategy, there are various factors to consider. You must think about your most critical demands and make sure that you can fulfill them while still reducing weight. If your primary needs are love and belonging, you may wish to work with a partner. If your first concern is survival, you must construct in such a way that you will feel safe.

If you have a strong desire for power, you should consider making your weight reduction competition in some way. If your top need is freedom, you should start thinking of things, people, activities, or places that allow you to feel free while still allowing you to lose weight and include them in your weight-loss strategy. If having pleasure is your primary desire, you must discover a way to make weight loss enjoyable for you.

The next stage is to create positive affirmations that will help you achieve your weight-loss objectives. You must begin to reprogram the negative beliefs that are preventing you from achieving your objectives. These ideas are often hidden from your cognitive awareness, but they nonetheless obstruct your progress.

Affirmations are utterances that confirm what you wish to be true in the present moment. According to research, our brains are unable to distinguish between the truth and falsehood. When you repeatedly confirm a specific notion, value, or belief in your thoughts over a lengthy period of time, your brain begins to believe it. As a result, the brain will organize its powerful resources to accomplish whatever it takes to produce the reality you claim in your life.

Make as many affirmations as you wish to help you achieve your goals. You may use affirmations to aid you with eating, exercise, thinking, and anything else that will help you achieve your objectives. Your list of affirmations may be as extensive as you want it to be. You choose how much time you want to spend with them each day, with a minimum of five minutes twice a day. You should say your affirmations twice a day, once when you first get up and once before you go to sleep.

While reciting your affirmation, it is beneficial to look oneself in the eyes. Of course, you may accomplish this with the help of a mirror. Look yourself in the eyes, as if defying the reality of what you're saying to the person in the mirror. Repeat your affirmations twice a day, with passion and conviction. Even great if you can squeeze them in the third time around lunchtime.

Next, spend some time studying your food triggers, which are the factors that cause you to consume the incorrect foods or eat when you are not hungry.

Many people have made harmful dietary substitutions to fulfill their demands. When we feel sad, happy, thrilled, stressed, bored, angry, or afraid, we eat. Emotions may be used as a trigger to eat for a number of reasons. And it's not like we're rummaging through the refrigerator for an apple or some carrots! No! We're deciding whether to eat chocolate or potato chips. No, they do not belong in the fifth food category!

We employ a variety of dietary triggers, including emotions. We eat to socialize at times. We eat because the food is free at times. We eat when we have a strong desire for something specific. We eat for comfort at times. We eat when the clock tells us it's time to eat.

We will also eat when we are not hungry because we have already paid for the meal. We were taught that we had to wipe our plates and not throw anything away. We convince ourselves that we don't enjoy leftovers and that we should eat them up quickly, or that there isn't enough to store and that we don't want to waste fine food.

To be successful with your new weight-loss plan, you must change the way you think about eating. Food is no longer your greatest buddy or the thing you turn to for consolation. Food is nothing more than fuel for your body. The only time you should eat is when your body tells you it's hungry, and even then, you must be aware of the food you're reaching for.

Make a deliberate effort to be aware of your weight-loss activities. Paying attention to and documenting the events and conditions that cause you to eat can offer you a wealth of knowledge about how to get things back on track.

Following your analysis of your food triggers, it's time to ask yourself, "What would you have to give up to achieve the weight reduction objectives you've set?" You could have discovered some new facts to think about.

It's time to put your strategy together if you've made it this far. First and foremost, this strategy must be written. You're going to make a contract for yourself! Your plan's first two elements will be a daily vision of your future life and a recitation of your affirmations.

Include strategies to meet your basic requirements without jeopardizing your weight-loss goals. Include components from previous triumphs that will increase your chances of success. When you're dealing with severe food triggers, make an attempt to do something new. Make a plan for what you'll do instead. Don't just write, "When I'm depressed, I won't eat." Instead, write out what you intend to do.

Sign and date your strategy when you're pleased with its chances of success. Then stick to the plan you've devised with tenacity.