Many people will spend their last dollar on a miracle weight
loss pill.
They will spend half their month’s pay on a diet program
with slick advertisements that look like science.
They will give it their all for a couple of weeks or even
months then quit as they fall into a state of depression thinking they will
never achieve their health goals.
Do you want to know what they all have in common?
They have the desire to achieve a different result, but they
didn’t change themselves.
See, in order for things to change, in order for our
circumstances to change, in order for our failures to change into successes, we must
change.
That’s right, we must change ourselves, our thinking, our
actions before anything we set out to achieve.
Until we change our thinking, we will never change our actions.
Until we change our actions, we will never change our
circumstances.
Until we change our circumstances, we will never change our
lives.
It first starts with what we think about. If we only think
about the negative like,
“Don’t eat this or that.”
“Don’t do this or don’t do that.”
“I always cave into my cravings, I never can seem to resist
junk food.”
“I’m a stress eater, I always seem to get stressed and blow
my diet.”
“My joints hurt and keep me from doing the exercises like I’m
supposed to.”
“I always screw up.”
You get the picture.
We should always focus on the positive. We need to talk to
ourselves in an encouraging way a lot like you would to a dear friend.
We need to say to ourselves things like,
“I know this time I will succeed in achieving my health goal
because I am committed and I have found a sound way to start.”
“I am committed to following a healthy way to lose weight
and get healthier.”
“I will reward myself when I make good choices and forgive myself
for the times that I don’t. I refuse to feel condemned just because I eat a
cookie.”
“I can start by doing light walking. I know that my speed
and endurance will build “
“I look forward to how I will feel when I achieve my health
goals.”
“I am happy with myself right now and am only looking to
improve on what I already have. I refuse to base my self-worth on how I look.”
“I am more than what my scale says. I am more than the size
of my clothes. I will remind myself of at least one good thing about me every day.
I am my own best friend.”
"I can do this. I will do this."
Read both sets of sentences out loud. Notice how you feel
when you say the negative words to yourself? Do they sound familiar? Do they
seem easy to say to yourself?
Now read the encouraging words to yourself. How do you feel?
Do you feel good when you read them, but it seems awkward and hard to embrace for yourself?
So what if you feel silly reading the encouraging words to
yourself. It only feels strange because you are so used to saying the negative
words to yourself.
Start making yourself say the positive words over and over
every day and it won’t be long till the right words sound better and come
easier than the negative.
What we think and do every day becomes our actions and
habits.
We act upon our thoughts. The part of our brains that cause us to take actions take their orders from the parts of our brains that produce our
thoughts. They don’t care what the orders are – negative or positive – they just
know they must produce the actions that are according to the thoughts produced.
Think negatively – and your brain will make sure you act
negatively. The same holds true for positive thoughts – think positively and
your brain will say, OK and produce positive actions.
Get the picture?
This can take a little time as new habits need to be
developed till the old habits get crowded out, but just like anything else, with
practice, deliberate practice, it becomes easier until its second nature or we
won’t have to consciously think about thinking that way.
Then naturally our actions will follow. Our actions will
automatically reflect our thinking. We start making better choices about
everything including our eating and exercising as well as many other life choices.
And guess what? When we change our thinking, then ultimately
our actions – we change the way we look.
That’s right, our appearance magically transforms us to
reflect what we think and what we do.
It’s not magic really, it’s truth.
We’ve all seen it, we’ve all experienced it and we all know
it to be true.
Both positive and negative people can be identified by how
they look, how they speak and how they act.
So, back to the original title, “The Key To Success In
Losing Weight & Getting Healthier” – it all starts with our thoughts, that
lead to our actions, that lead to our lives changing.
It’s up to us it we want that change to be positive change
or not.
Remember this quote,
“What you think, you look.
What you think, you do. What you think, you are!”
~Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee
Write it out and read it every day. Make a commitment to
change you so you can change your weight, your health and ultimately your life!
Be well my friends.
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