Weight Loss Motivation Tools

GETTING CLEAR ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT  

If you are struggling to lose weight or to keep it off – don’t give up! Failure can be your best friend. It has helped you learn many lessons about what works and what doesn’t, and used properly can help provide the weight loss motivation tool you need to change your life forever.  

I am not talking about positive thinking or affirmations. There are some really simple tools you can use to recondition your mind and reprogram your habits once and for all. You already have these skills..we all do..it’s just a matter of learning how to apply them.

Your first step towards changing the habits that have stopped you from losing weight in the past is knowing your outcome. The clearer you can get about how much weight you want to lose and how you will feel when you have lost it the more inspired you will be to take action.

Having this clear picture in your mind to focus on will cause your brain to start looking for ways to make it happen. If you take that before and after weight loss picture and focus on it daily you will change your thought processes from what you don’t want to what you do.

Since what you focus on most is what causes your actions you are now looking for ways to get what you want, instead of more of what you don’t – which is what has kept you stuck and feeling like a failure in the past. The more tools you have to help you stay committed to focusing your mind on your outcome, the more you will change your mental habits and the faster and more lasting your results will be.

By creating a physical emotional anchor you will even further increase your potential for success. My experience with physical emotional anchoring actually happened by circumstance. I had just attended a personal development course and really wanted a way to remind myself, in those moments of human weakness that we all have, to stayed focused on the human qualities that would give me strength.

The idea of tattooing love, happiness, courage and faith somewhere on my body sounded way too painful, even in chinese symbols, so was never going to happen! I was sitting on the beach at Byron Bay playing in the sand with my feet and dug up a silver bracelet. I took it to the police station but no-one claimed it so I decided to engrave it. I was going through a horrible divorce at the time and was very anxious and stressed.

At first in those moments when I needed it I would stop and read the words on the bracelet but after a while all I had to do was hold the bracelet and instead of falling to pieces my mind would refocus on my outcome and find a solution.

If you have been struggling to lose weight for a while, having a Thinner View picture showing how you will look without those extra kilos is a powerful way to help you stay focused on what you really want. Imagine if, in those moments when you are tempted to skip your walk or overindulge, you could get out that before and after weight loss picture to remind yourself of what you want most and keep you on track to succeed.

Go to: Weight Loss Motivation Tools 2: Personal Power

THE POWER OF CHOICE  

very minute of every day you are faced with thousands of choices. What to eat, what to do, what to think and the decisions you make are what produces your future experience.

Even when you choose not to make a choice, you are actually choosing to recreate the same life circumstances. I hope your reaction to this is OMG and a massive alarm bell but don’t stress…think about it for a second. If you created your current state, that means you are equally capable of making choices and decisions that will shed those unwanted kilos. This is step two. Becoming aware that you are making those choices and learning simple tools to improve your decision making skills will massively change the way you do things.

When I was first presented with this concept I completely freaked out and totally denied I could possibly be responsible for all the things I didn’t like about my life, BTW don’t worry, this is a completely normal human reaction!  

Then I started to think about what this information really meant. Once I realized I actually had a choice over my life circumstances and could choose a different future I knew I had just been given the key to personal freedom.

I was raised in a very strict home where I lived by rules like children should be seen and not heard, respect your elders, do as you are told blah, blah ,blah. I love my Dad and understand he had my best interest at heart but as a result I had absolutely no sense of personal power. I obediently did whatever anyone with an opinion told me to do.

In my early twenties I moved to Los Angeles and despite the fact I was living in Hollyood I suddenly found myself with no one to direct me. Needless to say without this very basic life skill I was completely lost, depressed and afraid. I will never forget the day that my best friend and neighbour Darrin, after listening to me cry about all my problems for the hundreth time, patiently looked at me and said, “This is your life girlfriend, if you don’t like it just do something to change it!”

Those simple words of advice changed my life forever and I have spent my life sharing them with everyone I can. Now I am sharing them with you and even though I don’t know you I hope they will help you as much as they helped me. You already have lots of knowledge about how to lose weight so by being aware of your choices and deciding to make the choices that will help you lose weight you will start to develop new habits.

If you only picked two small things that you already know about losing weight and committed right now to doing just those two, no matter what, you would immediately start to lose weight.

These small steps are the building blocks of self belief and ultimate success. The only thing stopping you from losing weight.

If you do nothing you will just keep gaining weight and losing health but if you commit to taking even a few small actions you will lose weight and improve the quality of your life forever right now is not having the tools to help you take action and make the shift  from what you know you can do to what you know you must do.

The only way to fail at anything is to not take any action. You are at a crossroad right now what will you do?

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