Famous self help guru Anthony Robbins once explained that people make decisions based on two criteria. 1) The need to avoid pain; and 2) The need to gain pleasure. If you think about the decisions you make every day, you will find that the need to avoid pain often dominates the decision making process over the need to gain pleasure. Using this explanation it is easy to see why most people fail at losing weight.
Weight loss is associated with the hard work of exercise, the personal sacrifice of certain foods and pain, pain, pain. It seems easier to just give up. It would not be unfair to say that most people are lazy when we are hearing in the media that two thirds of the adult population of the United States is overweight, if not obese. Understanding why most people fail at losing weight, we can very quickly see what we need to do to succeed.
1) Be committed. You have to really want to lose weight. You can change your mindset from associating losing weight with pain. Instead, link pain with heart disease and diabetes and having to live a life full of restrictions (you can't eat the foods you like) and medications, if not an early death.
2) Set realistic goals - If you set realistic goals, you are more likely to achieve them and more likely to stay committed because you are seeing the results. What often happens is that people don't even set goals, let alone unrealistic ones. They just go to the gym for the first couple of months and then find a reason not to continue.
3) Exercise - This could begin with regular walking, riding a bicycle to work or going to the gym. Make sure you listen to music or watch TV while you exercise. It helps with taking your mind away from the physical workout. A lot of gyms are now installing LCD screens that can be seen from all machines, if not attached to each individual machine!
4) Get a weight loss buddy - When there is commitment involved, it is often easier to have a friend that will go through it all with you (as long as they are equally committed). An alternative would be to join a gym class where a lot of people are doing the same exercises and you are motivated by an instructor. You can hide in the crowd. This will take away any fears of "being seen" or mentally criticized by other people while you are alone on a gym machine.
5) Don't starve yourself - make subtle changes to your diet initially. If you have a can of Coke every day, for example, switch to Diet Coke. Also try to eat smaller meals more frequently each day rather than "no breakfast, take away lunch and big dinner at home". You'll find that this regular intake of food will actually help with improving your metabolism and prevent the usual afternoon slump in the office.
Losing weight may be in some ways a short term pain but it will lead to a long term gain. For those dedicated few that follow the above principles, major improvements will not only be seen in health and fitness, it will be evident in all areas of life. As self image and therefore self esteem improves, your newfound health and confidence will begin to attract to you love, success and wealth.
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