Lose Weight After Changing Your Thinking
April 11, 2010 by Health Blogger
Filed under Organic Foods
This feeling is familiar to me. It feels so frustrating when you start a diet program with full enthusiasm but after a few days find yourself going back to your previous eating habits again.
You were really determined this time to complete the 100 days of keeping up with the diet program. You were desperate to lose weight fast naturally. But alas, after just a few days into the program you find your motivation vaning.
When this happens a couple of times, you will develop a belief that you just don’t have the discipline to follow any weight loss or diet plan for a sufficient amount of days to see any noticeable results.
What should be done now?
You will begin to wonder how to overcome this problem. A new diet plan looks promising and you want to try it out. But deep down there is this nagging fear that this will again end up like your previous failures.
You are sure that you will give up just halfway into the program or probably much earlier than that. You will remember the previous times you did so and will convince yourself that this time too the old story is going to repeat itself.
You will be disappointed and wouldn’t want to give another try
Because you are so sure that you will not be able to keep up with any weight loss plan, you will stop attempting to go on any weight loss plan from now on.
After a couple of earlier failures, you have now developed this belief that might prevent you from making another serious attempt at losing weight.
You wouldn’t want to face yet another failure. What is the use of embarking on a new weight loss program when you are going to fail anyhow? This is what you will start believing.
How to get out of this?
To succeed at losing weight, you have to overcome this pattern of thinking. Recalling previous failues again and again is going to cause you further discouragement.
Such negative thinking will cause a big impact on your future weight loss efforts. You will not make any further serious attempts to lose weight.
You definitely need to get out of this destructive thinking pattern. From now on, don’t allow yourself to dwell on past failures.
Stop yourself from dwelling on past failures and tell yourself that you have now changed. Tell yourself that you used to be like that but now you are different. Say to yourself that you can now follow and complete any quick weight loss plan easily.
Your beliefs can improve when you repeatedly encourage yourself. Initially you may not fully believe that you really changed, but repeatedly saying this to yourself for a number of days should have some kind of an effect on your mentality.
Once you develop strong belief that you can follow any rapid weightloss program, then your whole behavior might change for the better.
Infact you may be surprised at how easily you are now able to stick to any diet plan. Eventually, you may end up losing a lot of weight – probably a lot more than your own expectations.
Our beliefs can have such a strong effect on our habits and actions. Positive beliefs can lead to positive action, which inturn can lead to healthy and rapid weightloss.