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Successful Weight Loss
Lost count of the amount of diets that you've tried? Maybe one of those diets are just right for you and you didn't even know. This could all be down to the mind set, if you mind isn't where it should be then how can you possibly achieve the results that you desire? This article will guide you in the right direction, helping you to get what you really want....results!
Copyright (c) 2007 Kevin Raison
The weight loss industry is a multi billion pound industry and people make a lot of money from it with new crazies coming and going. As always, at some time the latest exercise fad eventually dies off!
So, what’next to hit the industry?
Thirty minutes of attempted escapology with a 30 second dunk in a tank of water every 2 minutes, just to raise the heart rate that little bit more?
Seriously, where are we going wrong?
Well firstly, there are a lot of desperate people who will do anything to lose those unwanted pounds of stubborn bodyfat but unfortunately want to lose it all way too quickly and with no extra effort. Well when I say anything, what I really mean is anything that’s involves taking a magic pill.
Well I’m sorry but there’s no such thing and even if there was, wouldn’t you rather lose weight and feel healthy at the same time?
Let’s face it, what exactly drew you to this article, it wouldn’t be the title fat loss would it?
Now what were you really expecting, something so new and unheard of that even Hollywood haven’t caught onto it yet?
If so, then we’ve got problems. If you thought that maybe there’s a better approach to losing weight than what you’re doing right now then your right!
So what’s the first step to take when you finally realize that you can’t lose weight by eating chips (something I read in a men’s mag). Well before you start dialing the number for your nearest weight watchers or slimming world club (my personal opinion is don’t bother), you need to get your mind ready for action.
Remember everything you do comes from the mind so if your mind isn’t ready, you’re on the familiar road to failure.
Take a minute to count how many times you’ve decided to start a new diet only to wake up and not bother?
What’s worse, you then feel that’s it’s then expectable to eating crisps, chocolate or whatever you crave by telling yourself that it’s alright because your diet starts tomorrow!!!
If you were mind set on your diet in the first place, you wouldn’t have chocolate or crisps or whatever you crave for you own in your home!
This is also very true for the latest gym exercise fad or January/February rush. “Right, that’s it….I’m joining a gym and getting fit” or “there’s this great new body combat with real weapons and the instructor said it’s good because the fear of getting injured raises the metabolism.”
Ok, so maybe a bit far fetched, but that persons been going to the gym for 3 months and hasn’t lost a single pound!
All I am trying to reinforce here in my ‘grumpy old men style’ is to prepare your mind before you rush off to try the latest fad diet or exercise and stop looking for the miracle cure.
Crunch Time
So what do you need to do?
Firstly, you need to determine what drives you to want to lose weight or get fitter. Then you need to change the reasons why you want to lose weight into why you must lose weight.
So straight away, we change from wanting to lose weight to having to lose weight and already become very powerful and fixed on what we are going to achieve.
In fact one thing that we do at Kevin Raison Personal Training Studios in the West Midlands is find out exactly what they want before they start training with us. We start this in the consultation room where we get our clients to be as precise as they can when it comes to achieving their goals.
As we make a note of this, it makes our clients more aware of their goals and how serious we are about their goals. We also get them to write down what they are going to achieve in that certain time frame and recommend them onto programs such as www.themagichundred.com. A program that helps.
Note: ‘what they are going to achieve not want to achieve.’
We then ask our clients to read out there goals aloud every morning and evening before they go to bed. So what’s the reason for this?
Have you ever woken one morning and had a craving for a certain food or drink. Then at mid morning it strikes again, then again in the afternoon and finally in the evening when you can’t resist and you give into temptation.
Now imagine if you were to wake up and the first thing you do is read out aloud your goal on your goal card or read you magic hundred list, then mid morning you do the same and so on for everyday.
Can you see where I’m coming from now?
You actually become what you think about!
If you think about what you are going to achieve this much you actually turn your thoughts into positive habits and positive results.
At first this may all seem a bit strange; I must admit it seemed a little strange to me when I first started doing it. Then things just started falling into place, you still have to make things happen of course, but if you’re in a positive frame of mind it will happen.
So how do we go about starting?
Simple:
•Choose your goal and be as specific as you can
•Don’t set to easy a goal, make sure the goal scares you a little
•Think about your goal as often as you can
•Actually imagine yourself being the person you want to be in that time frame
I promise you, if you stick to the above rules you’ll be closer than you’ve ever been to your goals and you haven’t even started your programme yet!