It is commonly believed that to lose weight you need to go on diet or flog yourself at the gym. But this mindset is flawed. Read on as I share the pitfalls of diets and punishing exercise regimes and share 6 top tips on how to create the mindset to lose weight that will stop your extreme weight fluctuations and negative feelings about yourself.
Diets are often restrictive and oppressive. Gym workouts often feel monotonous and more like a punishment, and both take willpower to sustain. Willpower is finite… and you may give up. This is probably a familiar pattern and reinforces the thought patterns of
This is too hard
I am not capable
I lack willpower
I am a failure.
Maybe you get to your goal. Either way, you get to go back to ‘normal’. Normal is comfortable, normal is familiar.
Normal
But your current ‘normal’ is what got you to the weight that you were unhappy with. So, you need to create the mindset that leads to SUSTAINED weight loss and gets you off that hamster wheel of yo-yo dieting and constant thoughts that make you feel bad about yourself.
Sneaky thoughts
Sneaky thoughts are thoughts that run below your awareness and have a self-fulfilling action. For example, if you think This is too hard, your brain will focus on all the ways it feels hard, you feel restricted, oppressed or constrained and you give up.
Sneaky thoughts may be familiar but not necessary and wreak havoc on your results.
So when you notice that you are thinking them let them come up and choose to think a different way. It is all about awareness and consciously reframing the way you want to think.
How to create the mindset to lose weight – 6 Top Tips from a weight expert
- Watch your brain and notice sneaky thoughts. Let them come up and let them go. They do not define you unless you continue to think them! Choose to think thoughts that serve you to get to your goal.
- Create a new thought or affirmation that will create the motivation needed to get to your goal. Something like I am open to believing I can do this. Deliberately practice your new thought. Have it visible. Don’t skip this!
- Understand that change feels uncomfortable in the beginning. See this discomfort of doing something a little differently as a green light, not a red one. Change your mindset.
- Don’t be in a hurry to get to your goal. Restrictive diets and flogging yourself at the gym may lead to faster results but those results don’t last and lead to your weight fluctuations.
- Decide to make small changes each week. Do things that you can continue to do for the rest of your life.
- Get support from a weight coach who can give you a personal blueprint to help you implement the right actions and find those blind spots that may have stopped you from losing weight in the past. It is also great to have accountability as you navigate the change process.
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What is different about my coaching?
The Stop Overeating Program doesn’t teach you a diet. It teaches you how to manage your mind, your emotions, rebalance your hunger hormones and the latest weight loss tools to help you create lifelong habits that support you to feel in control of your weight and food. You will be coached in safe non-judgemental 1:1 sessions to support you to make the change and implement life-changing actions.
When you are eating in a way that you and your body loves and managing your emotional life, you feel lighter, have more energy, feel great in your skin, and can focus on other areas of your life that help you feel like you are being the best version of yourself.
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