How To Stop Watching Your Weight and Enjoy The Journey?

Margo Toppin: Mytee Pathfinder Womens Health, Weight Loss, NLP in Muswell Hill November 15, 2013

What are you focusing on when it comes to your ideal weight?

Could it be looking at the extra weight you have around your waist? Or feeling guilty about what you have just eaten? Or maybe how difficult it is to follow your exercise regime?

Feeling bad about any of the above keeps you struggling to release those vital pounds. Even though weight loss may have been achieved previously, unless you change the way you think and of course, what you are feeling and focusing on, you hold yourself in a continuous cycle of weight gain followed by weight loss followed by more weight gain, year after year. Focusing on the problem intensifies when mixed with emotions. You become stressed and in doing so release those stress hormones, namely adrenalin and cortisol which can cause you to gain weight.

Researchers have found we have around 60,000 thoughts a day, of which around 70% are negative. Being consumed by focusing on your current situation and feeling bad about it keeps the experiences in your life. However, changing your thoughts and focusing on what you would rather have propels you to your goal.

Focus your mind on changing your perception of your reality. Retrain your mind and body to live as if you have already achieved your ideal weight. What would you eat during the day and how much fun would it be now you are your ideal weight. What does it feel like? Think more about what it would be like and take the action steps.

3 Simple Tips for Change

Intention

Be accountable to yourself. Write down the goal you intend to reach and make it compelling. Make sure your mission statement creates a good feeling. Your reason why is the 80% of how you achieve anything. The how is the 20% and you will get there once you know your big why. "I will eat a healthy salad daily so that I will fit into my summer dress.

Review

Create a daily plan and review your action steps daily. Upon rising review your specific behaviours for your day. If you imagine making the necessary decisions you are priming your brain to automatically follow your intentions. Write down your action steps and then take them.

Track Your Changes

Create a journal to review your daily wins. This will help you build new feelings of self esteem and belief. If you fall from grace for one day, make a decision to get right back into your routine without wallowing in failure. Change can be uncomfortable, you are changing how you think, feel, act and now you are focusing on your desired result.