Losing weight starts with your mind
Losing weight consistently and keeping it off requires sustained effort and commitment. With regard to our health, wealth or happiness every significant change starts with the mind. To assist you in your weight loss I will outline some tips for moving quickly toward your goals.
1. Define your dream.
What is your desire with regard to weight loss? Is it to lose ten pounds? Twenty? A hundred pounds? Perhaps it is more of a picture in your mind, such as looking good in a bikini on your next holiday. Take some time to sit quietly, take a few deep breaths and let the idea come to you. Refine your desire to one or two sentences. Then write it down. ( I keep a special notebook just for this purpose).
2. Distill your desire into a goal.
Have you identified your desire? Great! The next step is to make your desire a goal. For example, if your desire was to lose 50 pounds, think of a time frame that would be attainable for you. How many pounds would you like to lose per week? How many weeks will it take to reach your goal? Once again, write it down. “By (enter date here) I am (enter weight goal) and feeling great”. Of course you can paraphrase and write how good you are going to feel, what you are wearing, and how you are looking. Use your imagination as vividly as you can to come up with a picture of yourself at your goal weight.
3. Define the steps to take.
Sit quietly once again and brainstorm the methods available for you to achieve your dream goal. Online tools can really help here..there are many available to count calories, or to find out how much energy is used in a variety of kinds of exercise. You will need an average deficit of 3,500 calories to lose one pound of body weight. Use tools to plan your meals and workout time. This is much easier than you think!
4. Avoid processed foods.
There is no doubt that whole foods (foods with a minimum of processing) provide far more nutrients than highly processed foods. For this reason they are far more satisfying than highly processed foods, such as packet cakes, sweets, pastries, ready meals and snack bars. Natural whole foods include meat, eggs, dairy, leafy greens, nut butters, and sprouted breads and grains. These foods provide the body with the essential vitamins and nutrients it needs and therefore it is not necessary to go on eating as much in volume as with “junk” foods. Homemade foods are best. A home made cake is not the best weight loss food, however it contains at most 4-5 ingredients whereas a packet cake contains many ingredients including preservatives and artificial flavours that the body has to break down. Stick with simple, wholesome foods. The bonus is they taste better too!
5. Use your imagination.
Did you know you can harness your imagination to lose weight easily? Affirmations used daily will mean that you start to find your mind accepting them and healthy choices around food become easier. Hypnosis for weight loss is one way of making this much much easier.
So there we have it. Desire, Goal, Plan, Eat well, Imagination. Use these simple steps and start achieving your goals today!
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