You want to lose weight.
So, you start another diet.
You count calories. You portion and track your food. You spend hours on the elliptical.
You know how to lose weight, you’re following the diet and exercise plan, you’ve so got this.
But the scale doesn’t move.
And you are flat-out baffled.
You feel frustrated. Defeated.
Because no matter how hard you try, you always find yourself back on the couch 10 pounds heavier than when you started.
So what gives?
You ask yourself, all the time, “How does exorbitantly successful me find myself continuously on the hamster wheel of weight on, weigh off, weight on… again?“
You are not alone.
You are among the growing rank of 100 million dieters in the United States.
Yes, the annual revenue of the U.S. weight-loss industry, including diet books, diet drugs and weight-loss surgeries is a whopping 20 billion dollars per year.1
The one thing the annual revenue of the diet industry makes very clear, or at least one very important thing it makes clear is, they are very successful … because diets do not work.
The diet industry sells you books, pills, programs and even surgery to get you looking how you want to look, for a moment. The diet industry offers recipes to last you five lifetimes, smoothie challenges, juice challenges and detox programs to keep you busy for increments anywhere from 1 day to 30 days, plus approaches to weight-loss that give you knowledge akin to a Ph.D. in weight-loss theories, tenets and principles, with no lasting results!
But the books, the programs and the pills don’t teach you about the psychology of success and how it directly impacts the weight loss you produce, or not! {Tweet It!}
Yes, losing weight is a psychology game, a mind-shift training game, a ‘you are what you think game!’
Losing weight with lasting results is like any and every other successful endeavor you’ve ever achieved, you’ve got to clearly define the result you want to produce, why you want to produce it, create a plan to get you to your end game, and by taking one step toward your desired outcome each and every single day.
Ask yourself these questions to create your weight loss success plan:
- What outcome or result do I most want? (How much weight do you want to lose? What is your ideal, healthy weight? Be very specific.)
- Why do I want this result? Why do you want to lose weight? Go deep with this question. Look for the lowest-common denominator, the most basic, underlying reason, like what will being a lower weight make available to you? What will life be like for you at this ideal weight? Will this change impact who you are and how you treat yourself and others? How will that feel? For you? For those you love? For those closest to you everyday? Go deep for your answers here — you will be able to hang on when “the rubber meets the road” if you get to the gold of why you really want to lose weight!” If you don’t, the superficial responses can not possibly hold you steady when habituated ways of doing things come ’round to pull you down!
- When will I achieve this result by? Be very precise when you will win your game by, when you will achieve your ideal weight! Your unconscious mind will begin to support you in creating success!
- What is my plan? Create a solid winning plan, like what days will you prepare food for the week? What time of the day will you make your juices and smoothies. What time of the day will you workout? Success happens when preparation meets opportunity, and you are create a winning opportunity by preparing, by preparing again and by preparing even again with a solid plan, as solid structure of fulfillment!
- What is one thing I can add in every single day, to move me towards achieving my result?
- What is one thing I can omit every single day, to bring me close to my desired result?
Let’s simplify this approach to weight loss with a few applicable questions.
If you were going on vacation, would you plan ahead of time? Would you pick your location ahead of time? Would you book your hotel or cottage ahead of time? Would you book your travel plans ahead of time? Would you schedule your time off from work ahead of time?
Think of losing weight with lasting results like planning that vacation. You incrementally go through the roster of ‘things to do,’ and in this case, the things you need to DO to lose the weight is to clearly define the result you want to produce, why you want to produce it, what your plan is and what the one thing you can add in and what the one thing you can omit to get your game started and moving you closer to your result, your outcome. Of course once you create momentum with your one first healthy habit, you add in another, and another, and another.
Indeed, the thing that differentiates those who are successful and those who are not are the habits they create with straight-up, no-joke commitment and consistency.
In his 1968 classic, The Greatest Salesman In The World, You Can Change Your Life With The Priceless Wisdom of Ten Ancient Scrolls Handed Down For Thousands Of Years, Og Mandino says that until we become ‘a slave to our good habits,’ our bad habits will run the show!
And when we create good habits, we literally obliterate the bad habits!
Your every-single day commitment is non-negotiable IF you really want to arrive at your end-zone with solid results in hand!
AND if you’d like any support in achieving your weight loss goals, I’d love to support you in creating new healthy habits. Just email me at carol@carol-egan.com.
Game face on… and cheers to your success!
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